Intake-tube arrangement for internal combustion engines

Claim 2

Intake-pipe arrangement for internal combustion engines, comprising: an intake manifold, and intake pipes of approximately equal length and located pairwise from opposite sides of said intake manifold wherein said intake pipes are in communication with one another via said intake manifold, wherein the ends of the respective opposite intake pipes are connected diagonally with respect to one another to the intake manifold, wherein imaginary extensions of the ends of said intake pipes extending into the intake manifold intersect, the distance between the intersections of said extensions being greater than the distance between the connections of said ends of said intake pipes to their respective side of said manifold.

Claim 3

Intake-pipe arrangement according to claim 1, whose individual intake pipes are provided with connecting ends arranged in a series and connectable with inlet channels of the engine, and whose intake manifold is disposed approximately centrally across the ends of the connections, whereby the two individual intake pipes extending from the intake manifold and closest to the connecting ends overlap the adjacent individual intake pipes and make a transition to the outer connecting ends of the row, wherein the individual intake pipes extending out from the intake manifold and closest to the connecting ends extend by means of a continuous curve and at least one additional segment from a central lengthwise plane of intake manifold and the connecting ends, said plane being parallel to the connecting ends and at right angles to the row they form and extending back again toward both of them, while individual intake pipes extending out from the intake manifold at a distance from the connecting ends, each depart by means of a continuous curve and at least one additional segment from the central lengthwise plane and back again toward the latter, as well as exclusively toward the connecting ends.

Claim 4

Intake-pipe arrangement according to claim 2, wherein all of the individual intake pipes are curved over a considerable portion of their length slightly downward, and wherein a reverse curve is disposed in the vicinity of the connecting ends, the radius of curvature of said reverse curve roughly corresponding to that of the continuous curves.