Engine breather assembly with oil drain back
CA 2002740 C · Owner: Harper, Roy Alvin, Jr. · Inventors: Harper, Roy Alvin, Jr.; Davis, Thomas L.
Overview
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A breather assembly for a combustion engine which conserves oil by condensing oil vapor from the engine and returning the oil to the crankcase. The breather assembly is mounted to the crankcase cover and includes a drain tube extending into a low pressure area of the crankcase. The breather includes a baffled interior chamber with an inlet opening at its lower end having a valving mechanism biased towards the closed position. Vapor travels through the valve into the chamber and over a baffle wall into an outer annulus. Breather holes at the bottom of the annulus allow gases to escape. Oil is condensed as the vapor travels up the inner chamber. A vacuum created by the crankcase through the …
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- Filed November 10, 1989 and granted November 2, 1993. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 10, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 10, 2011.
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