Abstract: A fuel charging device includes a housing having two transverse bores, one defining a mixing chamber and one defining a vaporizing chamber. A section of exhaust bypass conduit passes through the vaporizing chamber bore to provide an annular chamber. A plurality of fuel flow channels consist essentially of transverse bores intersecting the vaporizing chamber and mixing chamber bores. These fuel flow channels include a valve chamber, a feed chamber communicating the valve chamber and the vaporizing chamber, and passages communicating the vaporizing chamber and the mixing chamber. Metering valves include valve orifices disposed between the valve chamber and the feed chamber, and needle valves at the end of valve actuator stems which extend through the valve chamber and beyond the housing. Liquid fuel inlet passages communicate with the valve chambers.

Abstract: An apparatus and method having a first unit for creating mechanical movement with a certain frequency ofmovement. A second unit is operatively associated with the first unit for producing a pulsing electrical signal that has a pulse rate substantially proportional to the frequency of movement. A third unit is operatively associated with the second unit for producing a pneumatic signal that is substantially proportional to the pulse rate of the pulsing electrical signal.

Abstract: A device is disclosed which detects the knocking phenomena in a controlled-ignition internal combustion engine, the device essentially comprising two ionization probes arranged in a zone of the explosion chamber remote from the sparking plug: the probes deliver signals when the state of ionization changes and the time interval between the signals of the two probes is measured and compared with an appropriate reference value.

Abstract: A vaporizer cooperating with a recirculating water system humidifies air before it enters the carburetor of an automobile engine. The vaporizer is generally a hollow tube which includes an evaporating pad that distributes liquid such as water. As air moves through the vaporizer, vapor moves into the air stream. Excess liquid is collected at the bottom of a larger portion of the vaporizer, whose air outlet is elevated from that bottom to prevent liquid phase water from leaving the vaporizer. The recirculating system drains collected excess water.

Abstract: An air cleaner for a combustion engine including air and fuel induction passages is provided and the air cleaner defines an inner chamber downstream from an associated air filter element. The inner chamber opens into the air and fuel induction passages of the engine and a reservoir for an evaporative liquid is provided, including an upper portion defining a filtered air inlet and a vapor outlet. An elongated conduit extends between and communicates the vapor outlet with the inner chamber within the air cleaner and a liquid absorbent and porous body is provided within the chamber for floating on the liquid therein, the body when in use defining increased wetted surface area from which liquid contained within the reservoir may be evaporated by air entering the reservoir through the air inlet and being drawn from the reservoir through the vapor outlet.

Abstract: A fuel system for and a method of operating an internal combustion engine wherein an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide is injected into the combustion chamber after a conventional fuel and combustion gas mix (i.e. gasoline-air) has been ignited. The hydrogen peroxide and water charge supplies additional oxygen to insure complete combustion of the hydrocarbon fuel and simultaneously the high energy content present in the hydrogen peroxide serves to boost the power output of the engine. Furthermore, the water in the hydrogen peroxide charge produces a washing effect on the engine combustion chamber which enables combustion to proceed at a lowered temperature which results in lowered NO.sub.x content of the exhaust gas. The more complete fuel combustion brought about by this system also eliminates the need for catalytic converters.

Abstract: A fuel additive injection device for injecting an additive into an automotive engine to slow down the burning rate of gasoline while the engine is under heavy load, thereby reducing knocking or pre-ignition while increasing engine output power and increasing fuel mileage. A vacuum chamber having a diaphragm therein is connected to the intake manifold of the engine so that the diaphragm moves back and forth as the pressure in the intake manifold changes. A connecting rod is coupled to the side of the diaphragm opposite to the interior of the chamber. A needle valve connected to the diaphragm through a control rod and a connecting rod and positioned through a valve seat in a flow control passage regulates the flow of additive into the intake manifold of the engine, preferably through the throat of the carburetor. When the pressure in the chamber increases corresponding to a heavy engine load, the needle valve opens increasing the flow of additive to the engine which in turn reduces the burning rate.

Abstract: Incorporation of small amounts of ortho-azidophenol in gasoline stocks results in improved antiknock performance. Improvements in octane quality of about 0.29 RON per gram per gallon of gasoline are found.

Abstract: A liquid fuel and additive mixing apparatus for accurately proportioning the liquid additive into the liquid fuel for a vehicle such as a truck tractor includes a control unit preferably located in the cab of the truck tractor and connected to the vehicle electrical system for supplying electrical power thereto. A pump unit mounted to the truck tractor has an additive reservoir, pump, and valve controlled pressure delivery connections with the fuel tank and electrical connections with the control unit. When a known quantity of fuel is put into the truck tractor fuel tanks, the quantity is entered in the control unit and the control unit is activated to energize the pumps and open the valves for delivery to the fuel tanks of the predetermined quantity ratio of additive to the quantity of fuel put in the fuel tank.

Abstract: An anti-wear compression ignition fuel for use in diesel engines comprising (1) a monohydroxy alkanol having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and (2) a wear inhibiting amount of a C.sub.8 to C.sub.20 aliphatic monocarboxylic acid. Optionally, said fuel composition may also contain an ignition accelerator such as an organic nitrate.

Abstract: A method of fueling an internal combustion engine using explosive dust, characterized by making a slurry of particles of grain dust, jetting said slurry to arrange said particles seriatim, drying said seriatim particles, injecting said dried particles in a series of computer controlled program of successive rasters into said engine, adding dried oxygenated air to said dried injected particles and igniting said rasters of dried dust particles inside said engine to drive the piston.

Abstract: An anti-wear compression ignition fuel for use in diesel engines comprising (1) a monohydroxy alkanol having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and (2) a wear inhibiting amount of a fatty acid amide or ester of diethanolamine. Optionally, said fuel composition may also contain an ignition accelerator such as an organic nitrate.

Abstract: An anti-wear compression ignition fuel for use in diesel engines comprising (1) a monohydroxy alkanol having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and (2) a wear inhibiting amount of an N-hydroxy hydrocarbonamide, e.g. N-hydroxy oleamide. Optionally, said fuel composition may also contain an ignition accelerator such as an organic nitrate.

Abstract: An improved process for cleaning internal combustion cylinders including disconnecting the ignition mechanisms of preselected cylinders, introducing a combustible cleaning solvent mixture into the fuel intake, running the engine for a period of time, then repeating the process until each cylinder has been treated while its associated ignition mechanism is inoperative and finally running the engine to combust and exhaust all of the cleaning solvent mixture.

Abstract: An anti-wear compression ignition fuel for use in diesel engines comprising (1) a monohydroxy alkanol having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, (2) an ignition accelerator and (3) a wear inhibiting amount of a dimerized unsaturated fatty acid.

Abstract: A unique process is disclosed for modifying an automobile engine to improve fuel economy and reduce harmful exhaust emissions by introducing water and an oxidizing agent, such as hydrogen peroxide, when the engine is under load. The carburetor of a standard engine is adjusted to provide a very lean air-fuel mixture and to increase the air-fuel ratio substantially (e.g., 10 to 20 percent). The amount of hydrogen peroxide injected into the engine depends on the rate of fuel flow and may be regulated by the throttle valve or intake manifold pressure. Means are provided for maintaining a supply of hydrogen peroxide including a high pressure mixing tank containing water and hydrogen peroxide and a pair of removable oxygen tanks for a continuous supply of oxygen to the tank.

Abstract: An anti-wear compression ignition fuel for use in diesel engines comprising (1) a monohydroxy alkanol having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, (2) an ignition accelerator and (3) a wear inhibiting amount of a dimerized unsaturated fatty acid and an ester of a phosphorus acid.

Abstract: A device for controlling the admission of additional gas, such as exhaust gas, to the induction tube of the engine so that additional gas quantities are admitted to the induction tube only during partial load operation. The device includes an additional gas quantity valve situated within the induction tube. The valve includes, in its various embodiments, structure to assure a high tolerance factor in the engagement of the valve seat and the movable valve member so that wear and temperature effects will not adversely affect the control of the additional gas quantity flow.

Abstract: There is disclosed an engine additive supply and control device, for supplying a fuel supplement in small amounts which will have many desirable effects on operation of the vehicle or apparatus which is being driven by an engine to which the additive is being supplied along with the fuel and air mixture, the quantity of supply being controlled in response to manifold vacuum conditions and flow of additive through the device being controlled by passage way, opening and fluid line sizes, in the device, which are coordinated to prevent surging, flooding and to minimize consumption, while providing adequate quantities to produce the desired interaction with the fuel/air mixture, a container, a body with suitable wells and passages and interconnections being provided.

Abstract: A diesel fuel supply system for use with a diesel engine including a fuel pump for supplying fuel to the engine, a fuel tank connected to the pump for delivering fuel to the pump, a fuel additive tank, a valve, conduits connecting the additive tank to the pump through the valve in parallel to the fuel tank, and an operator for selectively operating the valve.

Abstract: It is common practice to discharge waste vapors from certain chemical processes into the atmosphere. Many of these vapors, usually referred to as "vent gases", contain compounds which are considered to be pollutants in the atmosphere. In this invention the vent gases are oxidized in the combustion chamber of a Diesel engine before release to the atmosphere. The oxidation step reduces the concentration of noxious compounds in the vapor to a level acceptable for atmospheric discharge.

Abstract: Liquid injection apparatus for use with an internal combustion engine having an ignition system comprises:A. a liquid pump and electrical drive therefor, the pump having an outlet communicable with the engine air intake,B. and control means including a pulse rate frequency to analog converter to control electrical current flow to the drive in response to and as a function of electrical pulses produced by said ignition system, whereby the flow of liquid to the engine air intake will be a function of the pulse output of the ignition system.

Abstract: A valve closes a fuel passage or an air bleed of a low speed circuit of a carburetor to reduce the amount of air drawn from the low speed circuit into a high speed circuit by a main venturi vacuum higher than an induction passageway vaccum, for example, to zero to prevent an air-fuel mixture provided by the high speed circuit from being excessively leaned.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying liquids in finely-divided form to an internal combustion engine includes a liquid container, a distributor mounted.The apparatus has a liquid container, a distributor mounted in the container for supplying ambient air to the liquid in the container, a conduit connected between the container and the intake manifold of the engine for conveying air moistened with the liquid to the intake manifold for admixture to the fuel/air mixture, and a baffle in the container for making effective the moisturization of the air.

Abstract: An improved fluid vapor injector for injecting a fluid vapor into the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine at a rate generally related to the intake manifold pressure.

Abstract: This device consists primarily of a liquid propane tank with vapor outlet, a vapor storage tank with regulator means, and valve and solenoid means for properly blending propane vapor as the secondary fuel with gasoline as the primary fuel, so as to substantially increase the volumetric efficiency of an internal combustion engine, while simultaneously reducing the unburned hydrocarbons emitted by said engine.

Abstract: An injector having a bore with an inlet and outlet therein and a vacuum responsive piston slidable within the bore. The piston carries a valve part which in conjunction with the inlet into the housing serves to regulate liquid flow being drawn from a reservoir through the housing and injected into the cylinders of the internal combustion engine in a manner responsive to the amount of vacuum created within the engine cylinders.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine carburetor is provided with means for introducing two separate types of liquid into the engine, one of the liquids being gasoline and the other a non-gasoline liquid, such as methyl alcohol, tertiary butyl alcohol, or other alcohols. The carburetor maintains the two liquids separate prior to their introduction into the Venturi to avoid problems normally incurred in blending other liquids with gasoline in liquid form and is constructed to prevent introduction of the non-gasoline liquid during normal idling and starting conditions and to introduce it in metered quantities during normal operation. To ensure vaporization of the two liquids in the primary Venturi, hot air at a temperature at least as high as the end point of the gasoline is introduced directly into the primary Venturi.

Abstract: Apparatus for injecting controlled amounts of water vapor into an internal combustion engine includes a water receptacle and conduit connecting the receptacle at a level above the water level therein to the intake manifold of the engine. An air inlet is also provided in the receptacle and a conduit extends from the air inlet into the receptacle below the water level. A third conduit bleeds exhaust gas from the exhaust system into the water receptacle to influence the rate at which water vapor is withdrawn from the water receptacle and conducted to the intake manifold such that at increased engine outputs the rate of water vapor injection is increased whereas at lower engine outputs the rate of water vapor injection is decreased.

Abstract: A spacer plate for disposition between the carburetor mounting boss of an internal combustion engine intake manifold and the mounting flange of an associated carburetor is provided. The spacer plate includes an opening formed therethrough for registry with each air and fuel passage in the associated carburetor and intake manifold and an elongated vapor discharge tube extends through the spacer plate between the upper and lower surfaces thereof. At least one intermediate portion of the discharge tube extends along one peripheral portion of the opening formed through the plate and includes at least one lateral outlet opening opening into the spacer plate air and fuel opening. Those portions of the discharge tube disposed in the spacer plate are partially flattened so as to be of reduced width in a direction disposed normal to the plane of the associated spacer plate.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine operated with a gasoline-methanol mixture as fuel comprises a fuel system, a water-absorbing filter and a ventilating line passing through the filter. When moisturized air is flowing through the ventilating line, the filter removes the moisture so that the fuel system is ventilated with dry air.

Abstract: Method and device for cleaning an exhaust gas-driven power turbine of a supercharging set of an internal combustion engine, wherein washing liquid under pressure is fed during the washing periods into injection nozzles fitted onto the inlet ducts for exhaust gases on said turbine and a compressed gas is fed into said injection nozzles outside of the washing periods.

Abstract: A valve controlled disposable container, bracket mounted on the fire wall of an internal combustion vehicle for a selective feeding of a composition comprising a mixture of 90% hydrogen peroxide, 9% water, 0.5% nitro methane and 0.5% methanol to the intake manifold or carbureter of the engine.The present invention generally relates to internal combustion engine operation, and is more specifically concerned with a system for increasing the operational efficiency thereof through the utilization of apparatus which enables the selective feeding of an engine additive uniquely adapted to effect a substantial reduction in pollutant in conjunction with an appreciable reduction in gas consumption.One of the major problems facing the auto industry at the present time is the necessity of finding effective pollution reduction means. While many systems have been proposed, and in fact put into operation, the basic deficiency with such systems is the resulting substantial increase in gas consumption.