Patents by Inventor Joseph Weissenbach

Joseph Weissenbach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4499885
    Abstract: A supplemental fuel system for a combustion engine has a primary fuel supply feeding the combustion chamber directly and a supplemental fuel supply which feeds into the combustion air intake. The supply of primary fuel is appropriately reduced or regulated by automatic control and the supply of the supplemental fuel is continuously automatically adjusted to the supply of primary fuel. Initially the supplemental fuel in vapor state is introduced into the air intake until the heat exchange vaporizer system warms up, when there is an automatic shift to the liquid state of supplemental fuel. A temperature compensator in the air intake connected to the supplemental fuel supply holds the temperature of the supplemental fuel at the same temperature as the air with which it is mixed before passing to the final metering orifice and then to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Inventors: Joseph Weissenbach, deceased, by Jane A. Shahrokh-Khani, executor
  • Patent number: 4131141
    Abstract: A combustion engine system has a tank for volatile fuel with a flexible bag inside equipped with its own breather valve separate form the fill pipe for the tank. When the tank is filled, a muff around the full pipe seals the tank against exhaust of volatile vapors, and air from the bag is forced out the breather valve as it is displaced by the liquid fuel until a valve element on the bag shuts off the breather valve, whereby only pure air is vented to the atmosphere. As the tank empties during use, air returns through the breather valve to fill the bag and replace the space in the tank previously occupied by the liquid fuel, and incoming air may be dried. There is a vapor return for the automatic nozzle used to fill the tank with fuel from a stationary reservoir at the filling station and automatic means to prevent filling the tank until the nozzle is sealed in the fill pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Inventor: Joseph Weissenbach
  • Patent number: 3977379
    Abstract: A combustion engine system has a tank for volatile fuel with a flexible bag inside equipped with its own breather valve separate from the fill pipe for the tank. When the tank is filled, a muff around the full pipe seals the tank against exhaust of volatile vapors, and air from the bag is forced out the breather valve as it is displaced by the liquid fuel until a valve element on the bag shuts off the breather valve, whereby only pure air is vented to the atmosphere. As the tank empties during use, air returns through the breather valve to fill the bag and replace the space in the tank previously occupied by the liquid fuel. A separate valve controlled relief line communicates between the chamber in the tank and a solenoid controlled throttle valve passage so that when the passage is closed by the throttle valve hot soak vapors from the combustion engine are returned to the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1973
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Inventor: Joseph Weissenbach