Abstract:
A variable stage type carburetor having a throttle valve and a movable venturi vane cooperative with the throttle valve. This carburetor further includes a negative pressure responsive device for forcedly shifting the venturi vane in a direction to be closed, irrespective of an opening of the throttle valve, when the negative pressure in the venturi portion is lowered to less than a given value, and an accelerator pump for additionally supplying fuel to an intake passage commensurate to the opening action of the throttle valve. The accelerator pump is effectively operated when the opening of the throttle valve remains at an angle no more than a given degree, while the negative pressure responsive device is effectively operated, when the opening of the throttle valve is at an angle no less than a given degree.
Abstract:
A carburetor with an auxiliary accelerator-pump system including a diaphragm pump. This diaphragm pump includes a fuel chamber and a vacuum chamber which are separated by a spring-loaded diaphragm. The fuel chamber leads by way of a check valve to a fuel reservoir or float bowl in the carburetor and by way of another check valve to a pump jet or nozzle which is open into the intake passage of the carburetor, while the vacuum chamber leads to a vacuum take-off port open into the intake passage downstream of its throttle valve. This fuel chamber is communicated by way of a valve with the fuel reservoir or float bowl, the aforesaid valve being actuated in response to a vacuum prevailing in the intake passage downstream of the throttle valve.