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Heated fuel delivery system fitting and method

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5116461
In a fuel supply system for a combustion apparatus including a fuel tank, a fuel heater, a primary flow conduit connected to the fuel tank and the fuel heater, and a supply conduit connected to the fuel heater for supplying fuel to the combustion apparatus, the improvement is described comprising: a first fitting means having a primary flow inlet in fluid communication with an outlet port of the fluid heating apparatus, the first fitting means further having a primary flow outlet connected to the supply conduit and a backflow port, a second fitting means having a primary flow inlet in fluid communication with the fuel tank, a primary flow outlet connected to the primary flow conduit, and a backflow port, backflow conduit means communicating with the first fitting means backflow port with the second fitting means backflow port, and pump means causing warmed fuel from the first fitting means backflow port to flow to the second fitting means backflow port wherein warmed fuel from the first fitting means mixes with fuel in the second fitting means thereby warning the second fitting means and fuel therein.
Assignee:
Davco Manufacturing Corp., Ann Arbor, MI
Patent Number(s):
US 4612897
OSTI ID:
5116461
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English