Abstract: The air-fuel mixture produced by a carburetor is controlled by an apparatus that includes a choke valve located in a passage of the carburetor. A solenoid with a moveable plunger rod coupled to move the choke valve between extreme open and closed positions, and having a stop fixed to the plunger rod. A bimetallic element changes shape in response to changes in temperature, wherein below a given temperature the bimetallic element engages the stop thereby restricting movement of the plunger rod and preventing the choke valve from reaching the extreme open position. Above the given temperature the bimetallic element changes shape to avoid engaging the stop thereby allowing the choke valve to reach the extreme open position. A foil electric heater is mounted on a surface of the bimetallic element to match the shape of the element to the desired performance characteristic of the engine.

Abstract: In a process, installation and device for enriching ventilation or air-conditioning air with aromatic substances, the enrichment is homogenized in that a mixture of preferably water and aromatic substance is produced and stocked in a container (11) having a free evaporation surface for the mixture. The intake air current of the ventilation or air-conditioning air or part thereof is taken over the free evaporation area and then fed into the air-conditioning system.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to remove acid gases from a flue gas containing sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen. There is a heat exchanger to reduce incoming flue gas temperatures. Gas from the heat exchanger are oxidized to their higher oxidation state. A reaction tower receives the oxidized gases. The reaction tower includes a reaction surface. There is a first inlet for gases adjacent the base of the reaction tower and a second inlet for a basic compound in the reaction tower above the first inlet. The arrangement allows counter current flows of the gas and the basic compound to enable scrubbing of the gas. There is an outlet for scrubbed gas and an outlet for liquids at the tower base.

Abstract: Water control apparatus for evaporative cooling system includes a medium which is saturated with water from a water supply and water draining from the medium is directed to a pan or trough in which there is a float system and which includes orifices through which water flowing into the pan flows out of the pan. The float system includes a microswitch which controls a solenoid connected to the water supply system either directly or indirectly through a time delay relay. The relay may be variable so that the delay time may be adjusted in accordance with appropriate parameters.

Abstract: A non-circulating water system for use in evaporative coolers which incorporates a timing means in conjunction with a valve means, to control the flow of water to the pads. It applies measured amounts of water to the pad and allows measured amounts of time between applications so that most of the water is used in the evaporation process and minimal amounts of water are discharged though a drain. Domestic water line pressure is used to transfer water to the pads, eliminating the need for reservoir water, float valve, pump and overflow pipe. The cycle of the timing means may be varied dependent on moisture or temperature conditions sensed in the pad.

Abstract: A unit intended to supply gasoline and air mixture to an internal combustion engine in special operation conditions, such as the operation at the minimum speed, the start period, the operation as motor-brake and/or the acceleration, comprises a main air intake in the form of a venturi tube defining a restricted cross section, intended to be connected to an intake conduit downstream the carburetor shutter, a jet for the supply in the operation at the minimum speed, which has an own air intake and opens in the restricted cross section of the main air intake, a jet for the operation in the start period, which has an own air intake and opens in the main air intake dowstream the restricted cross section thereof, and two solenoid valves arranged to independently cut off, when activated, the one or the other jet or both.

Abstract: A carbonation system employing a pneumatic pump which operates off of a pressurized source of carbon dioxide which is itself employed for the carbonation process. The pneumatic pump serves as both a precarbonation chamber and a reservoir for receiving water from a low pressure source and subsequently transferring precarbonated water to a carbonation tank. Sensors within the pneumatic pump assure that a proper volume of water is maintained within the precarbonation chamber and available for transfer to the tank. Both the pneumatic pump and the carbonation tank operate off of the same supply of pressurized carbon dioxide, but the pressure provided to the tank is slightly less than that presented to the pneumatic pump.

Abstract: The system includes a plurality of zone valves located in a gas flow pipeline. These valves contain a fiber optic bundle that is installed in the center of the valve handle. The fiber optic light comes from a source and is read by a light detector. As long as light is detected by the light detector, the circuitry within the detector will function as a closed circuit. As soon as the detector is not sensed, the detector will function as an open circuit and will provide an alarm to a floor control panel and on to a system annunciator. The system processor is capable of performing remote shunting. The operator can determine by visual reference the location of the problem. False alarms caused by intermittent faulty loops can be identified by a built in memory circuit. The circuit is also capable of detecting loss of current flow that could be caused by a number of reasons. The loss will cause an alarm condition to occur and the operator shall be notified of the system's condition.

Abstract: A device for generating a plurality of gas bubbles in a liquid. The device includes a conduit adapted to carry the liquid. A first gas chamber is formed near the conduit and an orifice proximate a side wall of the conduit defines a passageway between the first gas chamber and the conduit. A valve member is adapted to seat against and close the orifice. The device may include a second gas chamber and a diaphragm responsive to gas pressure in the second gas chamber. A conduit connecting the first and second chambers may include a variable vent for controlling the size and number of gas bubbles injected into the liquid flowing in the conduit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the idle circuit of a carbureted engine is disclosed. The apparatus includes a solenoid valve for blocking the idle circuit of a carburetor when engine speed exceeds a preset limit. Electronic circuits are disclosed to respond to engine speed and to activate the solenoid valve. The method disclosed involves interrupting the carburetor's idle circuit when engine speed exceeds a preset limit. In this fashion, fuel is conserved and air pollution is reduced.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for generating a gas mixture. The arrangement includes a vaporizer which is switched into a vaporizer line which starts at a supply line and opens into a user line with the vaporizer line being bridged by a bypass line. The influence of material parameters associated with the metering of the vaporized gas quantity is reduced. For this purpose, the vaporizer line is alternately interrupted at the input and the output of the vaporizer and, when interrupted at the output side, the user line is interrupted by means of a switching element arranged therein.

Abstract: A fuel supply device for carburetors comprising a fuel passageway opened at one end in a variable venturi and connected to a float chamber through a jet; a solenoid valve and/or fuel pump provided within the fuel passageway; a negative pressure passageway opened at one end in a stationary venturi located on the upstream side of the variable venturi and generating a negative pressure weaker than in the variable venturi and having an upright part connected to the fuel passageway between the jet and the fuel pump; a level sensor provided in a predetermined height position of the upright part of the negative pressure passageway and capable of detecting whether or not a fuel column formed in the upright part is in a predetermined position and; a control circuit capable of controlling the operation of the solenoid valve and fuel pump on the basis of the output from the level sensor in order to make it possible to maintain the air-fuel ratio in a high load range to be proper without enlarging the flow resistance wit

Abstract: A vaporizer includes means 11 which may be an electronically controlled solenoid valve to divert repeatedly a carrier gas into either a first path which goes directly from the inlet 3 to the outlet 5 of the vaporizer or a second path which enters a vaporizing chamber 13 to entrain volatile liquid vapor before re-joining the first path.

Abstract: An electric motor for controlling the tilt of a throttle valve is disclosed. A rotatable field magnet having at least two pairs of N and S poles is mounted on a rotary shaft carrying the throttle valve for rotation relative to a disk-shaped stator yoke having at least one armature coil formed therearound. The coil includes a first toroidal windings of conductor effective for the development of torque wound in one direction and a second toroidal windings of conductor similarly effective for the development of torque wound in the other direction and disposed away from said first toroidal windings of conductor circumferentially of the stator yoke at an angular interval which is equal to about 2n-1 times the pole-to-pole interval of said magnet, said first and second windings being electrically connected to each other. The first and second windings of conductor are phase shifted in spaced-apart relation to each other.

Abstract: This is a device for injecting air into a water supply under pressure in a closed system. It consists of two sliding pistons inside a closed housing. The two pistons are connected to each other by a connecting rod. They are positioned so that they slide alternately toward one end of the housing and then toward the other end. They are propelled in one direction by water pressure entering the housing through an opening from an outside source. They are propelled in the opposite direction by a coil spring. This device can employ any one of several different means to increase and decrease the water pressure on one piston thereby alternately causing the coil spring to be compressed and then allowed to expand. This causes the second piston to draw air into the housing through a check valve when the coil spring is being depressed and then allows the air to pass through a check into the path of the flowing water when the coil spring is expanding.

Abstract: A high-velocity carburetor for an Otto engine comprising a slide for changing the cross-section of the suction pipe, a nozzle connection receiving nozzles and a profiled nozzle needle seated on the slide and controlling the cross-section of the nozzle. One object is the precise adjustment of the air admixture and thus an optimum mixture regulation as a function of the most important parameters for the operational conditions. The nozzle connection contains two nozzles, situated coaxially to one another and separated from one another by an intermediate chamber. The intermediate chamber is connected to an outlet channel of a flow control value having a ferromagnetic membrane-like valve plate. The valve plate is operable by two coils opposing each other and being connected to push-pull outputs of a pulse generator with adjustable pulse duty factor. An input channel of the flow control valve is connected with the atmospheric air via an air filter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a packing unit for mass-transfer columns that consists of a basic flat piece with several parallel and adjacent slits that terminate short of the border on each side. Sections between the ends and the slits and between the slits themselves are bent out in opposing curves. The basic piece has several adjacent strips being connected and their free borders joined.

Abstract: A double carburetor including a primary suction conduit and a secondary suction conduit located in a suction passage of an internal combustion engine equipped with a turbosupercharger for supplying supercharged air to a combustion chamber by means of a compressor driven by a turbine rotated by the energy of exhausts has an air-fuel ratio correcting control valve for a primary main fuel system of the primary suction conduit and another air-fuel ratio correcting control valve for a secondary main fuel system of the secondary suction conduit. The carburetor also has a drive unit which is operative, when the turbosupercharger is put into action, to actuate the air-fuel ratio correcting control valves for the primary and secondary main fuel systems to correct the air-fuel ratio of fuel-air mixtures supplied to the engine by increasing fuel flow or decreasing air flow therethrough.

Abstract: A carburetor for an internal combustion engine. The carburetor has an outer body defining a first venturi and having an inlet and an outlet. There is a first inner body located in the outer body and defining a second venturi and having an inlet and an outlet. A throttle valve controls air supply to the inlets of the inner and outer bodies. Air is agitated as it flows through the bodies. An injector nozzle is positioned to feed fuel to the second venturi. A valve controls fuel supply through the injector nozzle and sensor means determines movement of the valve. An idle jet feeds fuel to the second venturi downstream of the jet nozzle.

Abstract: An apparatus for aerating liquids, particularly for the preparation of carbonated beverages, has a carbonating chamber with electrically actuated valves controlling the flow of liquid and gas to and from the chamber, and a programmed electronic timer control device controls said valves enabling liquid to be carbonated and dispensed at the touch of a button.

Abstract: In a variable venturi carburetor in which the metering jet portion of fuel changes automatically according to the amount of intake air required to keep the mixture at a constant air-to-fuel ratio at all times, two series-arranged nozzles and an auxiliary fuel passage communicating with the downstream side of the venturi and with the space formed between the two nozzles additionally formed at the fixed venturi portion in such a way that the auxiliary fuel passage can be opened or closed according to engine operating conditions. Therefore, when the auxiliary fuel passage is opened, since fuel is introduced into the venturi through only a single nozzle, a rich mixture is obtained; when the auxiliary fuel passage is closed, since fuel is introduced through two nozzles, a lean mixture is obtained.

Abstract: A carburetor includes a choke valve and a throttle valve, a controlling prime mover and a driving shaft rotated by the prime mover. First and second cam plates are provided for controlling the opening of the choke valve. A third cam plate is provided for controlling the opening of the throttle valve. Each cam plate is supported on the driving shaft. A displacement detection plate is also mounted on the driving shaft for detecting rotational displacement of the cam plates. A phase shift preventing arrangement locks together the cam plates for the choke valve, the cam plate for the throttle valve and the displacement detection plate to avoid relative phase shift between the same.

Abstract: A system preventing the percolation of fuel in a carburetor comprising a first passage communicating a space of a float chamber of the carburetor with the atmosphere, a diaphragm valve with a vacuum chamber for closing the passage, and an inner vent pipe for communicating the space of the float chamber with an intake passage of the carburetor. A thermo sensor is provided for sensing the temperature of the carburetor and for producing a signal when the temperature reaches a high temperature which would cause the percolation of the fuel. The diaphragm valve is operated in dependency on the signal of the thermo sensor to open the passage to communicate the space of the float chamber with the atmosphere.

Abstract: An overheat preventing system for internal combustion engines, especially for outboard engines. The engine includes a choke valve, and electromagnetic means for closing the choke valve. A thermo-switch that is responsive to engine temperature is effective to cause the electromagnetic means to close the choke valve and reduce the engine speed when the engine temperature is too hot.

Abstract: An altitude compensation device for a carburetor including a chamber in communication with the atmosphere, an air bleed port conducting atmosphere from the chamber, a primary conduit providing fluid communication between the chamber and the fuel system of the carburetor, a first valve responsive to changes in atmospheric pressure for opening and closing the air bleed port, a first flow restrictor in the primary conduit downstream of the air bleed port, an auxiliary conduit providing fluid communication between an atmospheric pressure source and the primary conduit at a junction downstream of the flow restrictor and upstream of the carburetor fuel system, a second valve responsive to changes in atmospheric pressure controlling communication between the auxiliary conduit and the atmospheric pressure source, a second flow restrictor in the auxiliary conduit downstream of the atmospheric pressure source and upstream of the junction with the primary conduit, and a thermosensitive valve responsive to engine tempera

Abstract: A fuel/air metering system with an air throttle valve and fuel valve positively linked with the flow crossectional area of each valve proportional to the other. The air pressure drop across the air throttle valve is sensed and a corresponding fuel pressure drop is computed. A servo valve in series with the fuel valve is controlled so that the pressure drop across the fuel valve corresponds to this computed value.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine employs a controllable differential pressure for the removal of air from a main air duct into a carrier air duct for proportioning the fuel to be used. The fuel system includes a fuel proportioning device and a vane pump for withdrawing a carrier air flow from the main air duct and for transporting the fuel through feed lines to the internal combustion engine. The pressure of the air at the fuel outlet and the differential pressure for fuel proportioning is controlled by a differential pressure valve located in the carrier air duct spaced from the main air duct. The differential pressure valve has a diaphragm dividing the interior of the valve into chambers with one side of the diaphragm acted upon by the air pressure in the carrier duct between the differential pressure valve and the main air duct.

Abstract: A system for preventing percolation of fuel in a carburetor for a motor vehicle. The system is provided with air passages for communicating a float chamber of the carburetor to the air and to a canister filled with charcoal particles. Valves are provided in the passages for opening the passages, when the engine operation is stopped and the temperature of the fuel in the float chamber is high. A fan is provided for introducing the air into the float chamber and for discharging the air to the canister together with vapor of the fuel in the float chamber, thereby to promote the evaporation of the fuel to cool the fuel by the evaporative cooling.

Abstract: A carburetor including a main fuel system and a low-speed fuel system having a throttle valve shaft located parallel to a row of cylinders located in side-by-side relationship substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of a vehicle. The carburetor is connected to a suction manifold in such a manner that a float chamber is interposed between the throttle valve shaft and the row of cylinders.

Abstract: An automotive type carburetor is provided with an air bypass channel routing idle speed air flow around the closed throttle valve; the bypass channel containing a spring closed poppet valve having an adjustable volume internal channel connecting air to opposite sides of the valve at all times in a restrictive manner, the movement of the poppet valve and the volume of flow through the internal air flow channel being controlled by a solenoid operated plunger to progressively increase or decrease air flow from a minimum provided by the flow through the internal passage to a maximum provided by flow past the unseated poppet valve in addition to flow through the internal passage.

Abstract: a fuel system for mixture-compressing internal combustion engines controls the pressure differential of the extraction air required for proportioning the fuel. The system includes a fuel proportioning device and a vane pump for generating a carrier air stream for transporting the fuel into the suction tube of the internal combustion engine. A control valve constructed as a differential pressure valve influences the air pressure at the fuel outlet area and consequently the differential pressure for fuel proportioning. The throttle point is located in the carrier air channel upstream from the fuel proportioning area. A change in differential pressure adapts the mixture composition for various operating conditions.

Abstract: A variable venturi-type carburetor comprising a vacuum chamber, connected to a venturi portion of the carburetor, and a suction piston actuated in response to a change in vacuum in the vacuum chamber. A fuel passage is formed in the carburetor and is open to the intake passage of the carburetor. The suction piston has a needle extending through the fuel passage. An air bleed passage is connected to the fuel passage. When the level of vacuum in the intake passage becomes smaller than a predetermined level, the amount of air fed into the fuel passage from the air bleed passage is reduced, and the vacuum chamber is caused to be open to the atmosphere.

Abstract: A carburetor and associated control apparatus for an internal combustion engine. The carburetor includes a carburetor head having a fuel inlet conduit and an air inlet conduit communicating with a fuel mixing chamber. The carburetor further includes metering means for controlling the amount of fuel and air entering the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber connects to an expansion chamber through a control orifice in the carburetor head. The carburetor also includes a carburetor housing having a throat that communicates with the expansion chamber and with an air delivery passage. Air entering the throat is metered with an air valve that is moved with respect to the air delivery passage in correspondence with the fuel metering means.1. Technical FieldThis invention relates generally to fluid distribution apparatus having multiple valves and, more particularly, to carburetors and associated control apparatus for internal combustion engines.2.

Abstract: A downdraught carburettor of the constant pressure type has a mixing chamber 2 with an operator-controlled throttle valve 3 at its downstream end and a choke valve 10, which is operated by a diaphragm box 20 in dependence upon the pressure in the mixing chamber 2, at its upstream end. Fuel is supplied to the mixing chamber from an annular duct 5 through ports 6 to the wall of the mixing chamber down which the fuel flows in the form of a thin film. The film is evaporated to form the mixture by a heating jacket 16 which surrounds the mixing chamber 2 and is heated by engine cooling water or exhaust gases. In order to prevent the film of fuel from being broken up before it has been heated and evaporated, which tends to happen owing to turbulence in the air stream caused by the choke valve 10, an inner tube 11 is provided. The choke valve 10 is situated in the upstream end of the inner tube 11 so that the fuel film is screened by the tube 11 from any turbulence caused by the valve 10.

Abstract: A constant depression carburettor has an auxiliary throttle member associated with a sensor which delivers a signal representative of the position of the auxiliary throttle member. A solenoid valve is actuated by pulses received from a control circuit which receives input signals from sensor. The solenoid valve meters the fuel delivered to the intake passage via a discharge orifice located at the throat of a venturi limited by a swelling of the intake passage and by the throttle.

Abstract: An electronically controlled carburetor for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle has a variable venturi for varying the venturi cross-section and concurrently varying the amount of air metered into the venturi in response to the engine demands an air flow sensor for sensing the displacement of the variable venturi and producing related electrical signals in response to changes in air flow through the venturi, a main fuel nozzle for discharging metered fuel into the venturi, a fuel flow sensor for sensing pressure differential of fuel across a main fuel jet communicating with the main fuel nozzle and for producing related electrical signals in response to changes in fuel flow through the main fuel jet, an air bleed controlling actuator for controlling the amount of air to be bled into the main fuel nozzle, and a control circuit responsive to the output signals from the air flow sensor and the fuel flow sensor for driving the air bleed controlling actuator.

Abstract: A system for recovering as power the pressure and sensible heat of the gas discharged from the top of a blast furnace by guiding the gas to a dry-type dust collector for the removal of dust while maintaining the gas at the furnace top pressure and introducing the gas into a turbine for expansion. To protect the dry-type dust collector when the gas is run off from the furnace at an abnormally high temperature, a gas channel extending from the furnace to the dust collector is provided with at least one injector, which injects a cooling fluid into the gas in response to a signal from a temperature detecting sensor disposed close to the gas outlet of the dust collector. The sensor which is positioned near the dust collector outlet detects the temperature without the time delay attributable to the deposition of dust. With use of the dry-type dust collector, the gas can be fed to the turbine almost without cooling for the recovery of an increased amount of power.

Abstract: To start an ethanol fueled engine at low temperatures, a valve directs liquid ethanol from the carburetor accelerator pump to a PTC thermistor grid disposed in the engine induction passage below the throttle. The electric grid evaporates the liquid ethanol to provide sufficient ethanol vapor to start the engine and then is deenergized when the engine has started.

Abstract: A carburetor float chamber venting system includes an intake system float chamber venting passage which leads from an upper part of the carburetor float chamber to the intake system, a fuel vapor absorption device float chamber venting passage which leads from an intermediate part of the intake system float chamber venting passage to a fuel vapor absorption device, and a control valve, provided at a part of the fuel vapor absorption device float chamber venting passage, whose operation controls the opening and closing of the fuel vapor absorption device float chamber venting passage.

Abstract: A carburettor for an internal combustion engine comprises a main fuel supply system for normal running, opening into a venturi in the induction passage of the carburettor, and at least one auxiliary circuit for supplying a flow of air/fuel mixture for low speed and low-load operation of the engine. The mixture control means for the circuits are carried by a distribution block arranged to be inserted and removably fixed in the part of the induction passage situated in the vicinity of the venturi.

Abstract: A constant pressure carburettor comprises a mixing chamber 2 which is surrounded by a heating jacket 12, an operator controlled throttle valve 3 at the downstream end of the chamber 2, a fuel feeder 5, 6 at the upstream end of the mixing chamber and a choke valve 10 at an air inlet to the carburettor. The choke valve 10 is, in use, controlled automatically by the air flow into the carburettor in dependence on the opening of the throttle valve 3 and the speed of the engine to which the carburettor is fitted. The choke valve 10 tends to produce vortices or turbulence in the air flow and this tends to cause the fuel supplied by the feeder 5, 6 to the wall of the chamber 2 to be prematurely removed before it is heated. This adversely affects the vaporization of the fuel and the formation of the air-fuel mixture. To avoid turbulence or vortices in the chamber 2, a stabilization conduit 16 is provided between the choke valve 10 and the fuel feeder 5, 6.

Abstract: A carburetor is provided with an air bleed passage connected to the main fuel well; the passage being controlled by a solenoid opened, normally closed valve; the solenoid being electrically connected in series arrangement with a venturi vacuum actuated, normally closed switch and a wide open throttle (WOT), normally open switch closed by movement of the throttle valve to a wide open position, the electrical circuit being completed at low mass air flows, WOT operation to open the air bleed line and lean out the air/fuel ratio of the mixture charge; the electrical circuit being broken when venturi vacuum reaches a predetermined level indicating maximum horsepower will be better obtained by a richer air/fuel ratio.

Abstract: A device for controlling an acceleration pump for a carburetor includes a positioning member, a stopper and an actuating means. The positioning member is preferably formed integrally with a piston slidably set in the acceleration pump. The stopper is arranged to move in a direction perpendicular to a sliding direction of the piston. According to the positions of the stopper, the positioning member engages the stopper at a plurality of predetermined positions so that the stroke of the piston may change. The actuating means may be bellows or others. The bellows contains therein an air pressure equal to the standard air pressure at a low place whereby the bellows can expand at a high place due to the air pressure difference. In addition, the actuating means can be controlled in response to the ambient temperature.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio controller of a variable-venturi type carburetor having an air inlet port opening at the upstream side of the suction piston, a branching chamber connected to a passage leading from the air inlet port and branching the passage into a bleed-side passage leading to the bleed portion of the carburetor and a by-pass passage leading to the downstream side of the suction piston, and a valve device disposed in the branching chamber. The valve device is adapted to move reciprocatingly to vary the areas of the bleed-side passage and the by-pass passage relatively in such a manner that, when the area of one of the passages is increased, the area of the other passage is decreased. In consequence, the position of the suction piston is never changed by the change in the amount of bleed air, so that the control of the air-fuel ratio of the mixture is very much facilitated.

Abstract: A carburetor equipped with an auto-choke device is disclosed wherein according to one embodiment a leak valve is disposed in a negative pressure chamber of a diaphragm device adapted to operate by a negative pressure in a suction passage downstream of a throttle valve so as to open a choke valve in said suction passage to a predetermined degree of opening (complete explosion opening) after an engine has rotated by itself, and when the diaphragm has executed a predetermined shift, the leak valve is opened, and simultaneously, the downstream of the leak valve is brought into the atmospheric pressure for engine temperatures below a set value and into the same negative pressure as that of the negative pressure chamber for engine temperatures at and above the set value, whereby the operating stroke of the diaphragm is changed-over in two stages in dependence upon the water temperature or oil temperature, and the complete explosion opening of the choke valve is changed-over in two stages so that it may become narro

Abstract: A container of water is mounted on a motor vehicle and a means for dispensing that water into a passenger compartment of said vehicle is provided. The water will be delivered in the form of vapor. An electrical circuit is formed with a humidity sensing device within the passenger compartment for purposes of actuating the vapor forming and dispensing apparatus.

Abstract: In a carburetor system having an electrically-heated choke system including a first heat generating member which is heated by the power supplied from a battery and a first thermo-sensitive member which is deformed by the heating operation of the first heat generating member and adapted for controlling an opening and closing operation of a choke valve by the deformation of the first thermo-sensitive member, and a fast idle system adapted for controlling an opening and closing operation of a throttle valve, the inventive carburetor controlling system comprises a second heat generating member which is heated by the power supplied from the battery, a second thermo-sensitive member which is deformed by the heating operation of the second heat generating member and controls an opening and closing operation of the throttle valve, a control circuit connected between the battery and the first and second heat generating members, a thermosensor for detecting an atmospheric temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement in a variable venturi carburetor for an internal combustion engine which comprises a venturi portion, a float chamber, a main fuel passage communicating with the venturi portion and with the float chamber, a main jet provided in the main fuel passage and a movable metering needle of which free end is adapted to control the size of the main jet and the base portion thereof is mounted to a suction piston adapted to transversely move with respect to the venturi portion in response to the condition of load on the internal combustion engine. The improvement includes provision of a fuel bypass which detours the main jet for supplying part of fuel to the venturi portion. The fuel bypass communicates with the atmosphere through one or more throttles.

Abstract: An improved carburetor (20) for delivering one combustible fuel and a liquid, or two combustible fuels from separate reservoirs (50), (500), to the central portion of a hollow spray bar (98) for discharge into carburetor venturi (30) includes substantially closed metering chambers (90), (508) disposed in fuel flow communication from the reservoirs and suspended from opposite ends of spray bar (98). Fuels from metering chambers (90), (500) travel through variable width grooves (154), (548) formed in arcuate metering inserts (148), (544) into the lower end portion of corresponding metering arms (92), (540) and then into the hollow interior of spray bar (98).

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a vertically extending intake duct which is mounted on the collecting portion of the intake manifold. A throttle valve and a fuel injector are arranged in the intake duct. The fuel nozzle of the fuel injector is directed slightly downwards and located at a position spaced below the throttle shaft of throttle valve by a distance which is less than one half of the diameter of the intake passage formed in the intake duct.