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Gasoline crisis answer Part 1Gas Saving Equipment... The Carburetor: What is it?At the neighborhood filling station gasoline is pumped into the gas tank of the automobile. Obviously this gasoline is the fuel necessary to produce energy to propel the average car in the world today. The fuel is then pumped from the car's gas tank to the engine by means of a fuel pump. Before a stream of raw gasoline is channeled directly into the car's engine for burning, it is first mixed with air. This mixing and measuring of the fuel occurs in the car- carburetor. Certainly the carburetor is a very important link in the mechanical process of converting bulk fuel into energy to power the car. From the preceding definition let us visualize the two words MIXING and MEASURING. That little machine , the carburetor, mixes air from the atmosphere with fuel for the gas tank and measures it into the engine. When the driver starts the motor he expects to drive down the highway a certain number of mile for every gallon of gasoline in the holding tank. How many miles can one hope to drive on just one gallon of gasoline? Since big cars generally use more gasoline and smaller cars less, let us calculate average miles per gallon. Therefore our question would be: How many miles can the average car travel on just one gallon of gasoline? A REVIEW OF GAS MILEAGE FROM HISTORY
In a November 1942, Science Digest reported, evidence shown that only a small percentage of gasoline fire-power is converted into "push" for the car. So much gasoline is simply wasted because of inefficient carburetors . This inefficiency of the car companies carburetors was also verified in the 1922 Literary Digest report noted above. What about today, over 50 years later?
Note: The interested person should read this report and another entitled:
In these two reports references is made to the idea that a "miracle carburetor is a part of American folk lore. Reference is made that car owners keep hoping for an efficient carburetor that will allow 120 miler per gallon but one never appears on the market. INVENTIONS Many have heard theses same stories about the miracle carburetor designed to give fantastic gas mileage. Our research , to has recorded such claims....of standard family cars getting from 40 to 400 miles per gallon of gasoline.
GOOD QUESTIONS These questions and others were and are the subject of our investigation. Let us research the matter together. 1. Have such carburetor been invented ? To answer this question let us look at sampling of newspaper and magazine reports which have been written over the past 50 years. A. "Doubling the Automobile Mileage Per Gallon," The Scientific American Digest, March 1926, page 185. This report describes the Bursley-Trask Fuel Adjuster . A centrifugal carburetor that partially gasifies the fuel droplets and make for marked efficiency. Their findings show an,
An added benefit of this invention was a decreased in carbon buildup and decreased pollution !! B. "Exceptional Mileage Claimed For New Carburetor", Mass Transportation, December 1936, page 406. This carburetor was the invention of Charles Nelson Pogue, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The Pogue invention is not a carburetor in the traditional sense of the word. The entire principle of mixing air and fuel with a V-8 engine. This carburetor system received widespread news coverage in 1935 and 1936. In the course of our research, we have personally interviewed several older citizens (from Canada and the U.S.) who remember the Pogue test and widespread publicity.... some were eyewitnesses. However, it has been many years since the Pogue carburetor system was invented. We find no evidence indicating it was ever placed on the market for the public to buy. Since we do not have the Pogue carburetor before us today , we must make a value judgment as to its reliability.
After sifting through all the evidence, the reasonable- man approach to research leads one to make the final judgment that "the exceptional mileage claims for the Pogue were accurate." We The People Research have the Pogue patent on file. The last
patent was filed January 7, 1936, number 2,026,798. Many have asked for a copy. You can
obtain the Pogue patent by writing: Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Washington D.C.
20231 For now , let us continue our research. C. "100 Miles On One Gallon Of Gas? Chicago Members Say It's Possible" The Machinist, October 8, 1953 page 7. This I.A.M. Lodge 48 member-inventor says 100- 400 miles per gallon of gasoline is indeed possible. You can se a picture of the concepts found in the Pogue invention are noted in this system. Any large city public library should have this magazine available for your inspection. D. "The Search For A No-Waste Carburetor" by Bruce Wennerstrom Mechanix Illustrated , July 1974, Page 46. This report covers the account of an Indiana inventor whose carburetor is reported to get 60 miles per gallon of gasoline.... some say the figure is closer to 100 MPG. The M.I. reported witnessed the test conducted on a 17 year old Ford Station Wagon. The concept of this carburetion system is to accomplish a "complete vaporization of fuel". E. "Over 100 Mile On A Gallon Of Gas" by Gregory Jones, Argosy August 1977, pages 23 - 25 + This magazine was not available in the public library. However, one can obtain a copy of this report by writing:
Already this report invention has received attention from several newspapers, magazines and radio/ television reports. Also the invention has drawn phone calls and personal; visits form the automobile industry, oil company representatives, Patent Office examiners and from the Federal Energy Research and Development Administration. The Energy Research and Development Administration officials who viewed this invention gave a guarded evaluation, but was certain of one thing... and that is he did not think this was a hoax. What are the claims ? With this invention, the eight cylinder engine will get 90 - 120 miles per gallon of gasoline. A six cylinder engine will average 140 - 200 miles per gallon , and a four cylinder engine will average 260 - 360 miles per gallon of gasoline ! All those involved in the Interstate highway test runs found no gimmicks. How is it done ? We The People Research talked personally with those involved with this invention. The inventor does not refer to this as a carburetor as such. Once again, many of the same concepts developed by Mr. Pogue some 40 years earlier are found in this system. The raw gasoline is first heated, then introduced into the engine in a warm gaseous form. Sophisticated absorptive surfaces, lines and tanks are required. Yet the invention can be easily adapted to the conventional car. The tests described in recent news reports where on a 1970 Ford with a V-8 engine. One engineer form a nearby University was quoted to say, " I don't know why somebody didn't try this before. He's eliminated the carburetor and achieved what the gasoline internal combustion engine was supposed to do all along - - - to operate off fumes. The idea is feasible and it appears he's found a way to make it work." * * * * * * Only by reading the full context and looking at the photographs and charts can one really grasp the full significance and worth of such claims.
Let us answer the second of our three questions. 2. Are these stories true ? PERSONAL TESTIMONY We include only the first name of these individuals to protect their privacy.
We interview inventors:
Personal testimonies tell us these stories are true. PATENTS The evidence found in the United States Patent Office tells us these stories are true. We have in our files several complete patents of such inventions. The gas saving carburetor system has indeed been invented. Their complete description is on file in the U.S. Patent Office available for all who want to do a patent search. NEWSPAPER AND TRADE MAGAZINE COVERAGE Some of the older and respected scientific journals and trade magazines claim that gas saving carburetors have been invented. Numerous newspaper reports have been printed on the subject. We must conclude that with so many tests and eye- witness accounts there must be at least a grain of truth and facts involved. RESISTANCE We know that what is written at this point draws great resistance from those engineers and mechanics who believed it requires a prescribed air/as mixture ratio to obtain a specific amount of power... and no more. In other words there is a limit as to how far one gallon of gasoline will propel a car (let's say a large size V - 8 auto). Usually this "limit" is the miles per gallon figured advertised by the auto manufacturer. A common mileage rating for a big car is "14 miles per highway". One questioning engineer, upon learning about our research, wanted to study our Pogue patents. After a few days study his opinion has been changed. His conclusion now was "it certainly appears possible to greatly improve gas mileage with this different concept of carburetion". Can one gallon of gasoline propel a car 100 miles ? How much power is there in one gallon of gasoline ?
A General Motors executive said this:
Here's another way to look at the same concept.
This of course means that 90% of the "heat energy" stored in a gallon of gasoline is wasted when it is pumped into the conventional automobile engine. And:
Or:
What about the cars of the 1970's? "At its best conventional automobile engine is an inefficient device. In terms of converting the energy content of gasoline into mechanical power, even a top-notch V-8 may throw away three horses out of every four. " CONCLUSION We must use the reasonable-man approach to this subject. There is ample written documentation, even from the auto manufactures, that such inventions do in fact exist ....inventions that can greatly improve gasoline mileage ...even to what we might consider the phenomenal. Here is more evidence: October 1913 Country life, page 104 Alternate carburetion. June 3, 1916 Scientific American, page 584 Dual carburetor system also see November 17, 1917. December 7, Outgoing, pages 176-177 1919 Why carburetors change. August 5, 1920 Auto Industries, page 273 Carburetor with swirling motion. June 26, 1920 Scientific American Monthly, page 699 More miles per gallon of gasoline. October 28, Literary Digest, page 24 1923 Suggestions to Uncle Henry. July 1924 Popular Mechanics, pages 14 -- 16 50 miles per gallon of gas ? 1926 Lockwood and Son, R.W.A Brewer- - London, page 176 Economics of Carburetting and Manifolding. October 5, Collier's page 10 - 11 1929 300 miles to the gallon ! April 1935 Scientific American, page 206 Doubling gas mileage. December 25, Business Week, pages 20 -21 1937 Carburetor monopoly. March 5, 1938 Business Week, page 39 New carburetor to use low cost fuel. January 19, Engineering, page 60 -61 1940 Coal-gas carburetors for cars. April 1940 Automobile Engine, pages 113 - 115 November 1942 Roads and Streets, page 55 Carburetor service on kero- sene and distillate engines. September 13, Newsweek, page 66 1948 An addition to the carburetor boosts mileage. November 1950 Reader's Digest, pages 77 - 79 Test proven carburetor-less design. January 1952 Popular Science, page 116 This American car will get 35 miles per gallon. August 4, 1960 Machine Design, page 10 Carburetor switch stretches mileage. August 22, 1960 Product Engineering pages 18 - 19 Twin carburetor saves fuel. January 1968 Mechanix Illustrated, pages 62 - 63 Expect to see this carburetor on Detroit cars in less than 3 years. October 1969 Mechanix Illustrated, page 77 Small General Motors car goes 70 miles per gallon of gas . . . not for sale. July 1974 Mechanix Illustrated pages 46 - 47 60 - 100 miles per gallon carburetor. September 1974 Car and Driver, pages 68-72 "You gotta Believe." December 1974 Car and Driver, pages 31-33+ When is a carburetor not a carburetor ? June 20, 1977 The Spotlight, Washington D.C Newspaper, 160 miles to the gallon. Evidence demands a verdict. Our research concludes that highly efficient carburetors (carburetion system) have been invented. You research the issue - you be the judge...
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