Electrolytic charge forming device

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Patented May 30, 1950

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

ELECTROLYTIC CHARGE FORMING DEVICE

George Edward Hey, Mill Hill, England

Application August 10, 1945, Serial No. 610,097

In Great Britain November 28, 1944

This invention relates to apparatus for supple or reservoir d, but it is preferred that before the menting the fuel mixture for internal combustion engines. gas reaches the chamber it should pass through It is well known that the operation of internal a filter e, which serves to intercept and absorb combustion engines is due to the burning or oxi any of the electrolyte which, without the provi dation of mixtures of air and hydrocarbons Such sion of a filter, might be carried by the gases to as gasoline and other hydrocarbon and fuel oils the engine. The filter could conveniently com and the like. The object of this invention is to prise a layer of asbestos or glass woolf supported Supplement this fuel air mixture by adding an on a perforated plate g formed from any suitable explosive mixture of oxygen and hydrogen pro O material.

duced by the electrolysis of a suitable compound nated If desired, the filter material may be impreg containing these elements by an electric current hydro-carbon with a suitable carbohydrate or volatile produced by the motion of the engine concerned the Such as gasoline or benzine, so that or other Suitable means. mixture of oxygen and hydrogen passing It is customary to provide a dynamo in con the through the filter material will collect some of junction with an internal combustion engine for Oxygen evaporating hydro-carbon gas and enrich the the purpose of charging the battery used for igni engine. hydrogen mixture before passing to the tion and/or starting the engine or for the lighting Alternatively, a hydro-carbon can be intro etc. of a vehicle or vessel in which the engine is duced into the electrolyte, alcohol being suitable installed. Frequently this dynamo produces more for this purpose, So that the oxygen and hydrogen current than is required and the excess is wasted as the associated battery is incapable of storing will be enriched by the hydro-carbon gas evapo rating from the layer.

the excess when it reaches a fully charged condi From the gas collecting chamber or reservoir tion. This surplus current is therefore available for the production of oxygen and hydrogen by d the oxy-hydrogen mixture passes by way of electrolysis and the gas mixture used for Supple tube h to the air intake i of a carburetor i where menting the fuel and air mixture for the engine, it is mixed with the normal engine fuel and con thereby effecting economy in the use of the fuel. in veyed to the cylinders of the engine (not shown) According to the present invention there is the usual manner.

provided apparatus of the type referred to The invention is also applicable to a Diesel engine in which case the oxy-hydrogen will be wherein the gas generator is incorporated in the 30 introduced

Storage battery which supplies current to the into the fuel injection system. electrical equipment of the engine. In the particular application of the present In order that the said invention may be clearly invention to an automobile, electrodes of elec understood and readily carried into effect, the tro-chemical inert material are combined with same will now be described in its application to the plates of the normal storage battery supply an automobile with reference to the accompany ing current to the electrical equipment of the ing drawing in which the figure is a diagrammatic automobile. In this arrangement the current Sectional view of a gas producing cell and the flowing through the battery will then be divided carburetor of an internal combustion engine and between charging the normal plates of the bat tery and decomposing the water content of the also the connection therebetween in accordance 40 electrolyte

With the present invention. drogen. in the battery into oxygen and hy Referring specifically to the drawing, the usual What I claim is:

storage battery a is provided with plates b, which are combined with electrodes formed from any 45 1. In an apparatus for supplying gaseous fuel charges to an internal combustion engine and suitable electro-chemical inert Substance, and including which are inserted in an appropriate electrolyte a carburetor for supplying vaporized fuel to said engine, and a storage battery for c, the arrangement being such that when an elec Supplying tric current from the generator driven by the electric current to said engine and engine is passed through the storage battery a 50 containing a plurality of plates immersed in an the water content of the electrolyte in the storage electrolyte, the combination with the improve battery will be decomposed into oxygen and hy ments comprising a reservoir in the top of said drogen in the manner well known. In order to battery, for battery collecting gases developed in Said collect the gases thus produced, the storage bat electrolyte in saidbetween a filter said reservoir and the battery to intercept any elec tery a is provided with a gas collecting chamber 55 trolyte carried by said gases, and a pipe con

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necting said reservoir with said carburetor for comprising a pipe connected directly between the supplying the gases for mixture with the vapor top of Said battery and said carburetor to supply ized fuel supplied by said carburetor. gases developed in said battery to said carburetor 2. In an apparatus for supplying gaseous fuel for mixture with the vaporized fuel supplied charges to an internal combustion engine and 5 thereby, and electrolytically inert material com including a carburetor for supplying vaporized bined with said battery plates to increase the fuel to said engine, and a storage battery for development of the gases. supplying electric current to said engine and 5. In an apparatus for supplying gaseous fuel containing a plurality of plates immersed in an () includingtoa ancarburetor charges internal combustion engine and for supplying vaporized electrolyte, the combination with the improve fuel to said engine, and a storage battery for ments comprising a reservoir in the top of said Supplying electric current to said engine and battery for collecting gases developed in said bat containing a plurality of plates immersed in an tery, a filter between said reservoir and the elec electrolyte, the combination with the improve trolyte in said battery to intercept any electro ments comprising a pipe connected directly be lyte carried by said gases, said filter being im tween the top of said battery and said carburetor pregnated with a volatile material for enriching to supply gases developed in said battery to said the gases as they pass therethrough, and a pipe carburetor for mixture with the vaporized fuel connecting said reservoir with said carburetor Supplied thereby, and electrodes of electrolyti for supplying the gases for mixture with the cally inert material combined with said battery vaporized fuel supplied by said carburetor. 20 3. In an apparatus for Supplying gaseous fuel plates to increase the development of the gases. charges to an internal combustion engine and in GEORGE EDWARD HEYL. cluding a carburetor for supplying vaporized fuel to Said engine, and a storage battery for sup

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plying electric current to said engine and con 25 The following references are of record in the taining a plurality of plates immersed in an elec file of this patent:

trolyte, the combination with the improvements UNITED STATES PATENTS comprising a pipe connected directly between the Number Name Date top of said battery and said carburetor to supply 707,835 DOW -------------- Aug. 26, 1902 gases developed in said battery to said carburetor 30 1,262,034 Frazer -------------- Apr. 9, 1918 for mixture with the vaporized fuel supplied 1379,077 Blumenberg -------- May 24, 1921 thereby, and a quantity of alcohol in said bat 1876,879 Drabold ---------- Sept. 13, 1932 tery and mixed with said electrolyte to enrich 2,001,210 Morse ------------- May 14, 1935 the gases developed thereby.

4. In an apparatus for Supplying gaseous fuel 35 2,309,331

charges to an internal combustion engine and including a carburetor for supplying vaporized OTHER REFERENCES fuel to said engine, and a Storage battery for Sup Winal, G. W.: Storage Batteries, 2nd ed. (1930), plying electric current to said engine and con taining a plurality of plates immersed in an elec 40 pages 267, 269.

trolyte, the combination with the improvements