Vapor pressure enhancer and method

• US 7,942,135 B1
• Filed: 09/09/2008
• Issued: 05/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Better Emissions Company LLC
• Original Assignee: Clark Lester Daywalt
• Inventors: Daywalt, Clark Lester
• Primary Examiner(s): McMahon; M.
• Application Number:
  US12/206,987
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 123536-538
• US Class Current: 123/538
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 27/02 by catalysts

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device that installs in-line in the fuel supply line of a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered vehicle. The device consists of a hollow cylinder that contains a tightly packed copper wire core. The copper wire serves as a catalyst to crack the fuel'"'"'s carbon chain molecules as the fuel flows through the device. The resulting fuel contains more and shorter fuel molecules, has a higher vapor pressure and burns more efficiently in the vehicle'"'"'s engine.

Claims

1. A vapor pressure enhancer for installation in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine comprising:

a hollow cylinder provided with two female threaded ends for attaching the cylinder in-line in a fuel supply line of a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine, and

a core of tightly packed pure copper wire provided within the hollow cylinder which acts as a catalyst to catalytically crack molecules of fuel as fuel flows through the cylinder.

2. A vapor pressure enhancer according to claim 1 wherein said cylinder is constructed of steel.

3. A vapor pressure enhancer according to claim 2 wherein said female threaded ends are steel nuts that are welded to both ends of the cylinder.

4. A method for catalytically cracking fuel in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine comprising:

securing a hollow cylinder containing a core of tightly packed pure copper wire in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine, and

passing fuel through the cylinder so that the fuel comes into contact with the copper core which serves as a catalyst to catalytically crack the molecules of the fuel thereby forming a fuel mixture containing more and shorter molecules which burn more efficiently in a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine.

5. A method for catalytically cracking fuel in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine according to claim 4 further comprising:

burning the fuel mixture that exits the cylinder in a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine.

6. A method of making a vapor pressure enhancer for installation in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine comprising:

inserting a core of tightly packed pure copper wire within a hollow steel cylinder, and

welding steel female threaded nuts on each end of the cylinder to secure the core within the cylinder and to provide means for securing the cylinder in-line in a fuel line that supplies fuel to a gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas powered engine.