Fuel vaporizing devices for internal combustion engines

Claim 1

A fuel vaporizing device for converting liquid fuel from its liquid state into an atomized consistency of gaseous fuel vapor, said gaseous fuel vapor being for use in an internal combustion engine having an intake manifold, comprising: a heated liquid fuel vaporizing metal plate; a liquid fuel delivery control spray valve, said spray valve having spraying means incorporated therein in its lower extremity by a conventional needle valve, said needle valve having a spring loaded endwise slideable needle, said needle having its lower end tapered, said taper providing means to normally open or close a taper shaped aperture, said aperture being the discharge outlet of the said needle valve, the upper end of said needle having connectable means whereby linkages may be attached providing means for control of operation of said needle valve, said spraying means of said spray valve being positioned in optimally close proximity to the upper surface of said heated fuel vaporizing metal plate providing a diffused liquid fuel spray to issue therefrom under pressure, said liquid fuel spray being directed to impinge upon said upper surface of said heated fuel vaporizing metal plate thereby instantaneously converting said liquid fuel spray into gaseous fuel vapor, said pressure being provided by functioning action of conventionally equipped automotive fuel pump; a water delivery control spray valve, said water spray valve having spraying means incorporated therein in its lower extremity in similar fashion as is the physical design and structure of the liquid fuel delivery control spray valve described above, the only difference between the said water delivery control spray valve and the said liquid fuel delivery control spray valve being in the type of liquid each spray valve is intended to deliver in spray form to the designated destination said destination being the upper surface of said heated liquid fuel vaporizing metal plate, said water delivery control spray valve functioning to deliver water under pressure in said diffused spray form said spray directed to impinge upon said upper surface of said heated fuel vaporizing metal plate thereby instantaneously converting said diffused water spray into steam, said pressure being provided by the function of a suitable auxilliary water pump, an intake air deflector situated immediately above said fuel vaporizing metal plate in the pathway of intake air; and a heated `fuel vapor/steam/air` mixture atomizing screen, said screen being situated in down stream sequence below the said heated fuel vaporizing metal plate.

Claim 12

A method of transforming liquid fuel into an atomised vapor, comprising the steps of heating the liquid fuel with an electrically heated liquid fuel vaporizing metal plate and utilising a liquid fuel delivery control spray valve to deliver a controlled spray of fuel onto said plate to produce a gaseous fuel vapor, causing a controlled spray of water from a water delivery control spray valve to impinge on the plate and to be converted into steam, mixing said steam with said gaseous fuel vapor; deflecting air to mix with said steam and said gaseous fuel vapor; and subjecting the mixture of air, steam and gaseous vapor to an electrically heated vapor atomizing screen in the path of said mixture.

Claim 13

A method of transforming liquid fuel into an atomised vapor, comprising the steps of heating the liquid fuel with an electrically heated liquid fuel vaporizing metal plate and utilising a liquid fuel delivery control spray valve to deliver a controlled spray of fuel onto said plate to produce a gaseous fuel vapor, causing a controlled spray of water from a water delivery control spray valve to impinge on the plate and to be converted into steam, mixing said steam with said gaseous fuel vapor; deflecting air to mix with said steam and said gaseous fuel vapor; and subjecting the mixture of air, steam and gaseous vapor to an electrically heated vapor atomizing screen in the path of said mixture.