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A self-regulating, fast-response fuel vaporizer is disclosed which is capable of promoting increased efficiency of combustion of the fuel supplied to a spark ignition engine throughout the entire working range of the engine. The vaporizer comprises an inlet conduit through which fuel-air mixture is

A self-regulating, fast-response fuel vaporizer is disclosed which is capable of promoting increased efficiency of combustion of the fuel supplied to a spark ignition engine throughout the entire working range of the engine. The vaporizer comprises an inlet conduit through which fuel-air mixture is admissible to the engine, the mixture being directly heated within the conduit by an exhaust conduit which intersects with the inlet conduit. Use is made in the design of the respective heat transfer surfaces, of an inherent effect that flow pulsations have upon heat transference between a gas flowing in a tube and the walls of that tube, to provide a selected inverse relationship between heat transfer coefficient and engine speed whereby automatic regulation may be achieved of the heat supplied to the fuel-air mixture for all engine speeds.

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A self-regulating fuel vaporiser comprising a fuel-air conduit adapted for series connection between a carburetor and an inlet manifold of a spark ignition engine, and including a heat exchanger having a plurality of mutually parallel vaporiser tube transversely intersecting a region of said fuel-ai

A self-regulating fuel vaporiser comprising a fuel-air conduit adapted for series connection between a carburetor and an inlet manifold of a spark ignition engine, and including a heat exchanger having a plurality of mutually parallel vaporiser tube transversely intersecting a region of said fuel-air conduit, and adapted in parallel flow arrangement for series connection with an exhaust conduit of said engine, a plurality of mutually parallel, planar vaporising fins disposed within said region of said fuel-air conduit in a direction normal to said vaporiser tubes, each fin occupying the full width of the surrounding conduit and each fin being intersected by and thermally coupled with every one of said vaporiser tubes, said region of said fuel-air conduit being additionally intersected by a thermally insulated exhaust by-pass tube arranged in parallel flow connection with said vaporiser tubes and transversely intersecting each of said vaporising fins.