Abstract:
A variable stage type carburetor having an intake passage, a throttle valve disposed in the intake passage, and a movable vane disposed at the upstream side of the throttle valve, the movable vane being adapted to cooperate with the wall of the intake passage in constituting a variable venturi and operatively connected to the throttle valve, so as to be moved in response to the movement of the throttle valve. The carburetor further has a first vane controller adapted for displacing the movable vane in the closing direction, independently of the throttle valve, when the venturi vacuum is lowered, and a second vane controller adapted to displace the movable vane in the closing direction, also independently of the throttle valve, when the force exerted by the intake air flow on the movable vane drops below a predetermined level.
Abstract:
A carburetor has a choke device formed of two planar quadrangular choke flaps situated side-by-side in a cross-sectionally quadrangular flow passage of an engine intake manifold. The pivotal supports for the choke flaps are held in recesses of the manifold wall and define a pivotal axis that lies in an edge zone of the choke flaps that is immediately adjacent the manifold wall. The choke flaps further have cooperating edge zones that together define the cross section of the flow passage as a function of pressure conditions in the intake manifold. In the fully open position, the choke flaps are in a face-to-face engagement with opposite wall portions of the intake manifold.
Abstract:
A variable area venturi carburetor has the cold engine cranking and running circuits integrated with the venturi valve circuit, to simplify the construction as compared to known carburetors of this type in which the circuits are independent, the integration being provided by an articulated linkage moving the venturi valve in response to engine manifold vacuum changes, the carburetor having an auxiliary air and fuel passage also controlled by manifold vacuum during cold engine operation to provide controlled air and the extra fuel required for cold cranking and running, and shutting down of the extra fuel supply and opening the air supply when the engine reaches the normal operating temperature.
Abstract:
The carburetor throttle plate shaft has fixed to it a lever that normally engages a first stepped edge of a fast idle cam rotated by a temperature responsive element to determine the closed throttle plate, running engine, idle speed position as a function of temperature changes. During engine starting, a second stepped edge of greater projection is engaged with the lever to open the throttle plates wider to initially supply more air and fuel to the engine, the openings varying with temperature. Once the engine attains a running condition, the lever is withdrawn from engagement with the second stepped edge and re-engaged with the first stepped edge to provide a more conventional cold engine running operation, the throttle plates then closing down to less open positions. Simultaneously, during cranking, the temperature control positions a supplemental fuel control needle valve to supply extra fuel to the carburetor during cold engine operation that changes with temperature changes. The extra fuel is inducted along with fuel from the main fuel supply system.
Abstract:
A downdraft type carburetor has a fast idle cam with a stepped edge that cooperates with a lever attached to the throttle plate shaft to open the throttle plates beyond the normal idle speed positions during cold weather operation for fast idle speeds, the fast idle cam being rotated by a temperature responsive device; during starting, the throttle plates are opened wider, and by degree as a function of the temperature, by the shaft lever engaging a step of a second series of steps on the fast idle cam, the latter steps each projecting more into the path of closing movement of the throttle shaft lever than the first series of steps; a spring positioning the second series of steps in position during starting; a vacuum servo replacing the second series of steps with the first series upon the engine attaining running condition, to close down the throttle plates to less open fast idle positions.
Abstract:
In a carburetor having an induction passage, a variable venturi in the induction passage, a fuel bowl and means for metering fuel flow from the fuel bowl to the induction passage, for example, the method of compensating for changes in barometric pressure due to either atmospheric or altitude changes is disclosed as providing an auxiliary passage including variable restriction means therein communicating between the fuel within the fuel bowl and the induction passage, applying venturi generated vacuum to the auxiliary passage in order to thereby cause flow of fuel therethrough, varying the value of the venturi generated vacuum generally in response to the volume rate of air flow through the variable venturi, and varying the effective flow area of the variable restriction means generally in accordance with barometric pressure. A carburetor having an induction passage with a variable venturi and a fuel bowl has barometrically controlled variable restriction means in combination with passage means communicating between the fuel within the fuel bowl and the induction passage, vacuum generated by the variable venturi is applied to the passage means to cause a pressure differential across the fuel thereby resulting in fuel flow through the passage means, the barometrically controlled variable restriction means is effective to vary the rate of fuel flow therethrough in response to said vacuum, and additional means responsive to the opening and closing movement of said variable venturi is effective to vary the magnitude of said vacuum generated by the variable venturi.
Abstract:
A downdraft carburetor of the air valve type having a mixing passage provided at its upstream end with two pivoted plates or air valves forming a variable venturi, and provided with two pivoted throttle plates adjacent its downstream end. A fuel spray bar in the mixing passage between the venturi plates and the throttle plates discharges fuel into the mixing passage and is supplied with fuel by a pivoted pickup arm movable in a fuel chamber over a calibrated metering ramp which cooperates with the free end of the pickup arm to form a variable fuel metering clearance therebetween. The fuel chamber may be pressurized, or the level therein may be controlled by a float. The venturi plates are biased closed by springs, one of which is a bimetallic spring coming into operation only when the engine is cold to provide a choke.