Fuel conditioning assembly

• US 6,276,346 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2000
• Issued: 08/21/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Royce Walker & Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Royce Walker & Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ratner, Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): MCMAHON, MARGUERITE J
• Application Number:
  US09/557,705
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 123/538, 123/537, 123/536
• US Class Current: 123/538
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 27/02 by catalysts

Abstract

A fuel conditioning assembly, structured to be positioned between a fuel supply and a fuel combustion assembly, and including an elongate tubular housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and a flow through passage extending therebetween. The inlet end is coupled with the fuel supply so as to receive fuel flow therethrough into the flow through passage, wherein a turbulent flow of the fuel is initiated and the fuel is influenced by a combination of metallic elements such as copper, aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, magnesium, barium, calcium and/or iron, which chemically condition the fuel flowing through the flow through passage by rearranging the molecular bonds of the fuel with a catalytic effect and separating the fuel particles into a plurality of subatomic particles, thereby reducing a density of the fuel and substantially increasing a fuel burn efficiency. Further, the outlet end of the housing is coupled directly with the fuel combustion assembly so as to provide for the flow of conditioned fuel therebetween without a substantial risk of a diminishing of the effects of the conditioning.

Claims

1. A fuel conditioning assembly comprising:

a housing, said housing including an inlet end, an outlet end, and a flow through passage;

said inlet end being coupled with a fuel supply so as to receive fuel flow therethrough into said flow through passage;

a plurality of metallic elements structured to come into contact with said fuel flow and cause a catalytic effect in said fuel flow so as to at least temporarily condition the fuel and substantially increasing a fuel burn efficiency thereof; and

said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect including at least two selected from the group consisting of;

copper, aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, magnesium, barium, calcium and iron.

2. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 wherein said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect include at least three selected from the group consisting of:

copper, aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, magnesium, barium, calcium and iron.

3. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one screen element disposed in covering relation to at least said inlet end of said housing, said screen element being structured to receive said fuel flow therethrough for passage into said flow through passage.

4. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 3 comprising at least three screen elements, each of said screen elements being formed of a different one of said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect.

5. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one screen element disposed in line with said fuel flow through said flow through passage of said housing.

6. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 5 comprising at least three screen elements, each of said screen elements being formed of a different one of said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect.

7. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

at least three inlet screen elements disposed in covering relation to at least said inlet end of said housing, said inlet screen elements being structured to receive said fuel flow therethrough for passage into said flow through passage; and

at least three outlet screen elements disposed in covering relation to at least said outlet end of said housing, said outlet screen elements being structured to receive said fuel flow therethrough for passage out of said flow through passage.

8. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 7 wherein each of said inlet screen elements is formed of a different one of said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect.

9. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 8 wherein each of said outlet screen elements is formed of a different one of said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect.

10. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 further including a turbulence assembly structured and disposed to create a turbulent flow of the fuel through said flow through passage.

11. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 1 wherein at least some of said metallic elements are formed into at least one pellet disposed in said flow through passage.

12. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 11 including a plurality of said pellets disposed generally at said inlet end and said outlet end.

13. A fuel conditioning assembly comprising:

a housing, said housing including an inlet end, an outlet, end, and a flow through passage;

said inlet end being coupled with a fuel supply so as to receive fuel flow therethrough into said flow through passage;

a plurality of metallic elements structured to come into contact with said fuel flow and cause a catalytic effect in said fuel flow so as to at least temporarily condition the fuel and substantially increasing a fuel burn efficiency thereof; and

said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect including copper, aluminum, stainless steel, and at least one secondary element selected from the group consisting of;

titanium, magnesium, barium, calcium and iron.

14. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 13 wherein said secondary element is disposed in said flow through passage.

15. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 14 wherein said secondary element is formed into at least one pellet disposed in said flow through passage.

16. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 15 wherein said pellet is generally between about 1 to 4 ounces.

17. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 15 including a plurality of said pellets disposed generally at said inlet end and said outlet end.

18. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 17 including generally between 3 to 5 of said pellets.

19. A fuel conditioning assembly as recited in claim 13 comprising at least three screen elements, each of said screen elements being formed of a different one of said metallic elements which cause said catalytic effect.