Fuel pre-heater

• US 4,476,839 A
• Filed: 02/09/1982
• Issued: 10/16/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Norman C. Niblett
• Original Assignee: Norman C. Niblett
• Inventors: Niblett, Norman C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazarus, Ronald H.
• Application Number:
  US06/347,348
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 123/557, 165/51, 165/52
• US Class Current: 123/557
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 31/10 by hot liquids, e.g. lubricants or cooling water
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 31/16 Other apparatus for heating fuel
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A fuel pre-heater for an internal combustion engine consisting of a coil in the fuel line in advance of the engine carburetor with a series of coil convolutions in heat transfer contact with the engine coolant conduit intermediate the radiator and the engine block with at least one section of said fuel line passing through said coolant conduit.

Claims

1. In a liquid-cooled engine having a radiator and an engine block connected thereto by a coolant conduit forming a coolant path, and having a fuel line for conveying fuel from a fuel pump to said engine for combustion, the improvement comprising:

(a) metallic tube means inserted in said coolant path between said radiator and said engine block so as to cause coolant to flow through said tube; and

(b) metallic fuel conduit means insert in said fuel line between said fuel pump and said engine, said fuel conduit means having a first end to which the fuel is fed from said fuel pump and a second end from which the fuel flows to the Engine;

(c) said fuel conduit means including multiple convolutions shaped in a generally helical manner disposed around the outside of said tube means and in direct contact therewith; and

(d) the last convolution of said helical fuel tube said second end extending through said coolant tube so as to be in direct contact with the coolant in said tube.

2. The improvement of claim 1, in which said last convolution extends diametrically through the center of said tube means.