Combustion apparatus for an internal combustion engine

• US 3,102,521 A
• Filed: 12/20/1960
• Issued: 09/03/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur J. Slemmons
• Original Assignee: Arthur J. Slemmons
• Inventors: Slemmons, Arthur J.
• Application Number:
  US04/077,227
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• US Class Current: 123/263
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2720/152 with fuel supply and pulverisation by injecting the fuel under pressure during the suction or compression stroke
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2720/157 with means for improving the mixture in the cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 69/00 Low-pressure fuel-injection apparatus ; Apparatus with both continuous and intermittent injection; Apparatus injecting different types of fuel
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 13/00 Sparking plugs structurally combined with other parts of internal-combustion engines connection of ignition coil to spark plug connector F02P3/02; with fuel injectors F02M57/06 ; spark plug connector per se H01T13/04 – H01T13/06; predominant aspects of sparking plug, see H01T13/40 – H01T13/44

Claims

1. IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, A CYLINDER HAVING A COMBUSTION CHAMBER, A CYLINDER HEAD HAVING A PRECOMBUSTION CHAMBER, MEANS DEFINING A THROAT SECTION ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBERS, AN ANNULAR FUEL RESERVOIR IN SAID PRE-COMBUSTION CHAMBER, AND MEANS PROVIDING A LATERAL PASSAGEWAY EXTENDING FROM SAID FUEL RESERVOIR TANGENTIALLY TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF SAID THROAT SECTION SO THAT THE FLOW OF GASES THROUGH SAID THROAT SECTION WILL DRAW FUEL INTO SAID THROAT SECTION TO MIX WITH THE FLOWING GASES IN SAID SECTION.