Fuel vaporizer

Claim 1

Vaporizing means particularly adapted for use in converting wet mixtures of fuel and air from the jets of a carburetor for an internal combustion engine to substantially dry mixtures, said vaporizer means comprising: a body formed of a thermally conductive material having a relatively flat elongate first internal chamber, a relatively flat, elongate second internal chamber in superposed relationship with the first internal chamber and a relatively thin partition separating the two chambers; said body having a first opening into said first internal chamber and a second opening into said second internal chamber; said partition having a first port interconnecting the first and second internal chambers and a second port interconnecting said chambers; the first and second openings in said body being of equal size and shape and in peripheral and axial alignment, said first port being offset a first distance in one longitudinal direction from the aligned axes of said first and second openings, and said second port being offset a second distance in the opposite longitudinal direction from said axes; said body being sized and shaped, and its openings and chambers being positioned and otherwise adapted, to permit its interposition between said carburetor and said internal combustion engine in a way to receive air-fuel mixtures from the carburetor jets through said first opening, and discharge said mixtures, after they have passed through at least one of the ports in said partition, into the intake manifold of the engine through said second opening; whereby the air-fuel mixtures are detoured through said body between the carburetor and intake manifold, when the engine is running, and undergo increases in velocity when passing through one or both of said ports and, additionally, absorb engine heat through the thermally conductive material of the body so that vaporization of fuel droplets in the mixture takes place to render said fuel more completely combustible in said engine.