How much for 71 Thermoquad?
Again here is what the original inventor stated back in 1930 about what his design accomplishes:
US1858615A - Carburetor - Google Patents
Even back then they understood that emulsion design was inefficient and caused the fuel to exit the booster in slugs instead of a nice consistent mixture.
Slug flow
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So the question then becomes which cylinder gets the slug of fuel and which cylinder gets the slug of air? What if you don't mix the fuel with air in a well before it leaves the nozzle so the air bubbles don't have a chance to coalesce (Join together) to form slugs or other inconsistencies in flow but keep it solid until its delivered to the air stream? Hence the superior metering of the 72 over the 71 is just a function of design. No secret squirrel **** no magazine experts just plain old science.........
I DO NOT want to get into this mess, I could care less if the 71 carb made a little more power or not, or if the 72 was better, or not, it matter not to me. I just want to let you know that you can claim almost anything on a patent. The patent office does NOT check your claims. You can claim anything and they will just look back to all their records to make sure no one has previously patented the exact same thing, that is does not currently exist, or something close to it, and with similar claims. Again you can claim anything, I once saw a guy in Florida that had a patented plastic rectangular box with a ton of baffles in it with one inlet and one outlet for vacuum hoses. He claimed that if you connected this box to one of the vacuum hoses on your engine, can't remember which one he used, it would increase the gas mileage by 20-30% of some crazy batshit like that. He had an actual patent, LOL. The most famous one is the Winnipeg Carburetor patents, guy claimed he had invented a 200 MPG, yes you read that right two hundred MPG carb. He was awarded multiple patents for this "carburetor"... As you can imagine this thing does not work, but he probably made a pretty penny selling plans and doing interviews and writing papers for different publications at the time...
Anyways, a claim on a patent may or may not have any reality in fact. You can claim almost anything... I have a little experience with this as I have quite a few patents to my name. Never take any claim on a patent as gospel, it may be the biggest BS ever.
Callaway Corvette in all their advertising of the C7 cars would always put that they had a "patented" supercharger/intercooler system, implying that it was better than what is out there. Well, they used a standard Eaton Superchager with regular intercoolers, nothing special. Now, they do have a patent, but it is a design patent on the top cover of the unit. The only thing that is patented is the looks of the new cover they came up with... Obviously this makes no difference, it just looks cooler, LOL
