Internal combustion engine fuel charge treatment

Claim 2

In an internal cumbustion engine comprising, in operative combination, a. a readily magnetizable metal engine block with a combustion chamber therein and a movable shaft driving combustion driven element movably located in said combustion chamber, and b. a fuel atomizing carburetor operatively attached to said block and in operative connection to said combustion chamber, a fuel supply line operatively connected to said carburetor, and a substantially constant magnetic field in the solid portion in said block adjacent said combustion chamber, the improvement which comprises, c. a heating coil and a strong unidirectional, steady, continuous magnetic force producing means with its magnetic axis parallel to a portion of the length of said fuel supply line, said portion of said fuel supply line located within the outline of said magnetic force producing means and within said heating coil; said portion of the length of said supply line being a ferromagnetic tube, said magnetic force producing means having a magnetic field, said magnetic field supplementing the magnetic field in said block.

Claim 3

Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said engine comprises also, d. a crankcase operatively attached to said block and including a crankcase chamber adjacent to said combustion chamber and also, e. a gas conduit extending from the crankcase chamber of said engine to said carburetor, and f. a second heating coil and a strong unidirectional, steady, continuous magnetic field producing means with its magnetic axis extending parallel to a portion of the length of said gas conduit, said portion of said gas conduit located within the outline of said second magnetic force producing means and within said second heating coil, said portion of the length of said gas conduit being a ferromagnetic tube and said second magnetic force producing means having a second magnetic field, said second magnetic field supplementing the magnetic field in said block.

Claim 4

Apparatus as in claim 2 also comprising, g. an electrical ignition system comprising an electric battery and an ignition coil operatively connected thereto, said ignition coil including a primary coil and a secondary coil; said ignition coil located adjacent said engine block, and wherein, h. said first magnetic force producing means comprises an electrical coil operatively connected to said electric battery and, i. said second magnetic force producing means comprises an electrical coil operatively connected to said electric battery.

Claim 5

Apparatus as in claim 3 wherein the ferromagnetic conduit for the fuel line is located within an electrical conductor formed into a number of helical turns for heating and an equal additional number of like wound helical turns for magnetization, and the second ferromagnetic conduit, located in said gas conduit line, is located within an electrical conductor formed into a number of second helical turns for heating and a number of like wound second helical turns for magnetization, said conductor forming the second helical turns being of length twice the length of conductor forming the second helical turns for heating.

Claim 6

Apparatus as in claim 4 comprising j. two separate fuel containers, one of said containers connected by a conduit including a first fuel line valve to said fuel line, and k. another of said fuel containers connected by a second conduit including a second fuel line valve to said fuel line; l. means for actuating each of said fuel line valves operatively connected thereto.

Claim 7

In an internal combustion engine comprising, in operative combination, a. a readily magnetizable metal engine block with a combustion chamber therein and a movable shaft driving combustion driven element movably located in said combustion chamber, and b. a fuel atomizing carburetor operatively attached to said block and in operative connection to said combustion chamber, a fuel supply line operatively connected to said carburetor, and a substantially constant magnetic field in the solid portion of said block adjacent said combustion chamber, c. a crankcase operatively attached to said block and including a crankcase chamber adjacent to said combustion chamber and also, d. a gas conduit extending from the crankcase chamber of said engine to said carburetor, the improvement which comprises, e. a heating coil and a strong, unidirectional, steady, continuous magnetic field producing means with its magnetic axis extending parallel to a portion of the length of said gas conduit, said portion of said gas conduit located within the outline of said magnetic force producing means and within said heating coil, said portion of the length of said gas conduit being a ferromagnetic tube and said magnetic force producing means having a magnetic field, said magnetic field supplementing the magnetic field in said block.

Claim 8

In an internal combustion engine comprising, in operative combination, a. a readily magnetizable metal engine block with a combustion chamber therein and a movable shaft driving combustion driven element movably located in said combustion chamber, and b. a fuel atomizing carburetor operatively attached to said block and in operative connection to said combustion chamber, a fuel supply line operatively connected to said carburetor, and a substantially constant magnetic field in the solid portion of said block adjacent said combustion chamber, c. a crankcase operatively attached to said block and including a crankcase chamber adjacent to said combustion chamber and also, d. a gas conduit extending from the crankcase chamber of said engine to said carburetor, the improvement which comprises, e. a heating coil and a strong, unidirectional, steady, continuous magnetic field producing means with its magnetic axis extending parallel to a portion of the length of said gas conduit, said portion of said gas conduit located within the outline of said magnetic force producing means and within said heating coil, said portion of the length of said gas conduit being a ferromagnetic tube and said magnetic force producing means having a magnetic field, said magnetic field supplementing the magnetic field in said block.

Claim 9

Apparatus as in claim 6 including solid bodies in said ferromagnetic gas conduit with passages between said bodies and passages between said bodies and said ferromagnetic tube.

Claim 10

Process of charging an internal combustion engine comprising steps of a. establishing a magnetic field in the engine block of said engine and, b. continually magnetizing the walls of a combustion chamber in said block and, c. continually passing vaporizable liquid hydrocarbon fuel from a container therefor in contact with and through a ferromagnetic conduit to an atomizing means therefor while applying a steady, unidirectional, strong magnetic force to said conduit that supplements said magnetic field in said block and heating said fuel while in said conduit and applying a magnetic field to said fuel incidental to said heating and the said step of applying a magnetic field to said ferromagnetic conduit and magnetizing the interior surface thereof being separate from the magnetic field applied to said fuel incidental to said heating step, said magnetic field applied to said ferromagnetic conduit being supplementary to said magnetic field in said block and supplementary to said field applied to said fuel in said heating step, and d. repeatedly charging said atomized fuel from said conduit into said combustion chamber within said walls.

Claim 11

Process of charging an internal combustion engine comprising steps of a. establishing a magnetic field in the engine block of said engine and, b. continually magnetizing the walls of a combustion chamber in said block and, c. continually passing vaporizable liquid hydrocarbon fuel from a container therefor in contact with and through a ferromagnetic conduit to an atomizing means therefor while applying a steady, unidirectional, strong magnetic force to said conduit that supplements said magnetic field in said block and heating said fuel while in said conduit and applying a magnetic field to said fuel incidental to said heating and the said step of applying a magnetic field to said ferromagnetic conduit and magnetizing the interior surface thereof being separate from the magnetic field applied to said fuel incidental to said heating step, said magnetic field applied to said ferromagnetic conduit being supplementary to said magnetic field in said block and supplementary to said field applied to said fuel in said heating step, and d. repeatedly charging said atomized fuel from said conduit into said combustion chamber within said walls.

Claim 12

Process as in claim 8 wherein said engine has a crankcase including steps of c. drawing gaseous suspension containing particulate hydrocarbon from the crankcase of said internal combustion engine in turbulent flow through a ferromagnetic conduit while applying a steady, unidirectional magnetizing force to said conduit, and d. admixing said treated suspension with said atomized liquid fuel, and e. passing the resulting admixture thereof to said combustion chamber.

Claim 13

Process as in claim 9 comprising steps of: heating said gaseous suspension while in said ferromagnetic conduit and applying a magnetic field to said gaseous suspension incidental to said heating and, applying a magnetic field to said ferromagnetic conduit and magnetizing the interior surface thereof separate from the magnetic field applied to said suspension by said heating step, and, said magnetic field applied to said ferromagnetic conduit being supplementary to said magnetic field in said block and, also, supplementary to said field applied to said suspension in said heating step, and creating a turbulent flow of said gas suspension to contact portions thereof with the interior surface of said ferromagnetic conduit in contact with said suspension.

Claim 14

Process as in claim 10 wherein said first magnetic force producing step and first heating step applied to said ferromagnetic conduit for fuel consumes 25 watts and said second magnetic force producing step and second heating step applied to said ferromagnetic conduit through which said gaseous suspension is drawn consumes 36 watts and said first magnetizing force producing step and heating step comprises applying an electrical voltage across and an electrical current through a helical coil surrounding said ferromagnetic tube portion of said fuel line through a number of helical turns for heating thereof and an equal electrical current is applied to an additional equal number of like wound helical turns for production of said magnetic field applied to said same ferromagnetic conduit for fuel separate from the magnetic field applied thereto for heating thereof, and the second magnetomotive force producing step and heating step is effected by applying voltage across and passing an electrical current through a first series of helical turns surrounding said ferromagnetic conduit through which said gaseous suspension is drawn for heating thereof and an equal electrical current is passed through an additional number of like wound second helical turns for production of said magnetic field applied to said ferromagnetic conduit through which said gaseous suspension is drawn, and the length of the conductor forming the second helical turns is twice the length of the conductor forming said first series of helical turns for heating.

Claim 15

Process of charging an internal combustion engine having a crankcase comprising steps of a. establishing a magnetic field in the engine block of said engine and, b. continually magnetizing the walls of a combustion chamber in said block and, c. drawing gaseous suspension containing particulate hydrocarbon from the crankcase of said internal combustion engine in turbulent flow through a ferromagnetic conduit and applying a steady, unidirectional magnetizing force to said conduit, d. admixing said treated suspension with atomized liquid fuel, and e. passing the resulting admixture thereof to said combustion chamber.

Claim 16

Process of charging an internal combustion engine having a crankcase comprising steps of a. establishing a magnetic field in the engine block of said engine and, b. continually magnetizing the walls of a combustion chamber in said block and, c. drawing gaseous suspension containing particulate hydrocarbon from the crankcase of said internal combustion engine in turbulent flow through a ferromagnetic conduit and applying a steady, unidirectional magnetizing force to said conduit, d. admixing said treated suspension with atomized liquid fuel, and e. passing the resulting admixture thereof to said combustion chamber.

Claim 17

Process as in claim 12 comprising added steps of: heating said gaseous suspension while in said ferromagnetic conduit and applying a magnetic field to said gaseous suspension incidental to said heating and, applying a magnetic field to said ferromagnetic conduit and magnetizing the interior surface thereof separate from the magnetic field applied to said suspension by said heating step, and, said magnetic field applied to said ferromagnetic conduit being supplementary to said magnetic field in said block and, also, supplementary to said field applied to said suspension in said heating step, and creating a turbulent flow of said gas suspension to contact portions thereof with the interior surface of said ferromagnetic conduit.

Claim 18

Process as in claim 10 including step of: f. warming the walls of said combustion chamber by passing gasoline from a first fuel container through said atomizing means and combusting said gasoline in said combustion chamber and thereafter, when said engine reaches a predetermined temperature, g. passing diesel fueld from a second container through said ferromagnetic conduit portion of said fuel line to said atomizing means while applying said steady, unidirectional magnetizing force to said conduit portion.