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THE ELECTROLYTIC DALLASITE PATENTS INVENTION WHICH ment of the electrolytic carburetor and CARBURETTOR He CLaims SupsTITUTES WATER FOR installation of a generator of about double from Jerry W. Decker of KeelyNet GASOLINE AS FUEL normal capacity to furnish power for the lor years we have heard stories about C. H. Garrett, Dallas inventor, gave a pri -_ breaking down of the water were the only EF: demonstration in the Dallas area of — vate demonstration Saturday of a recently changes needed to convert a gasoline- acar that ran on water. Never was patented contrivance which he said substi - burning automobile into a water burner! there any text substantiation or other docu- tuted water for gasoline as fuel for internal He said the electrolysis chamber would ments relating details. combustion engines. have to vary in size with the size of the Eventually we were sent a short newspa- He said it broke up the water by electrol -_ motor used; one of about a quart capacity per clipping describing the demonstration. _ ysis into its component gases, oxygenand _ being big enough for the ordinary automo - The article indicates a patent was secured hydrogen, using the highly explosive _ bile. for the "something" that made the carrun hydrogen for fuel in the motor cylinder. He claimed instantaneous starting in any on water. The working model operated a four- _ weather, elimination of fire hazards, cooler I finally found a patent issued to Charles cylinder engine for several minutes in the motor operation and fulfilling of all motor H. Garrett on July 2, 1935 and called an demonstration, at varying speeds and with requirements in power and speed. "Electrolytic Carburetor". Ihave been call- several starts and stops. Garrett said he ing it a "Hydrolytic Carburetor" because of _ had operated the engine continuously for TEXT OF THE GARRETT PATENT what it is combusting, andI am totally more than forty-eight hours. Patented July 2, 1935 2,006,676 amazed at the simplicity of the technology. The inventor said the idea itself was not United States Patent Office Several of our associates have received new. He explained that difficulty had been Electrolytic Carburetor copies and are quite impressed, and some — encountered heretofore in attempts to store Charles H. Garrett, Dallas, Texas have gone on to build and test the device. the dangerously inflammable hydrogen. Application July 1, 1932, Serial No. 620,364 (See KeelyNet website for updates.) He claimed to have avoided that trouble by his invention relates to carburetors Following is the original article, dated — making and exploding the gas in the same and it has particular reference to an September 8, 1935, that I found on micro- process without a storage chamber in _ electrolytic carburetor by means of which film in the Dallas Library, as well as the — which the flames from the motor cylinders — water may be broken up into its hydrogen text of the Garrett patent. might react. and oxygen constituents and the gases so Ate farma. ahlir mn nt Watar ha av he engine continuously for TEXT OF THE GARRETT PATENT -eight hours. Patented July 2, 1935 2,006,676 said the idea itself was not United States Patent Office ‘ned that difficulty had been Electrolytic Carburetor retofore in attempts to store Charles H. Garrett, Dallas, Texas ly inflammable hydrogen. Application July 1, 1932, Serial No. 620,364 tave avoided that trouble by his invention relates to carburetors rloding the gas in the same and it has particular reference to an ut a storage chamber in _ electrolytic carburetor by means of which 28 from the motor cylinders water may be broken up into its hydrogen and oxygen constituents and the gases so Water, he explained, is formed suitably mixed with air. broken down into its The principal object of the invention is to component gases by pas - provide ina device of the character sage of an electric cur - described, a mechanism by means of which rent through it from elec - water may be readily decomposed into its trodes immersed in the _ constituents, and the constituents intimately water. Hydrogen collects mixed with each other and with air. at the negative pole and Another object of the invention is to oxygen at the positive. provide means whereby the electrolyte The hydrogen, Garrett level in the carburetor may be maintained said, is mixed with air at amore or less constant level regardless and introduced directly _ of fluctuations in fluid pressure at the fluid into the cylinders. inlet of the carburetor. The inventor said he Another object of the invention is to had been working on the _ provide means whereby the relative amount device for eight years, _ of air mixed with the hydrogen and oxygen assisted by his father, may be regulated as desired. Henry Garrett, traffic Still another object of the invention is the signal engineer for the provision of means to prevent loss of city of Dallas, inventor of — hydrogen and oxygen gases during periods the traffic signal system, in which these gases are not being drawn now in use here and from the carburetor. holder of several patents Still another object of the invention is the on such contrivances. provision of means whereby the hydrogen Garrett said attach - and oxygen resulting from electrolysis may APRIL - MAY 1998 NEXUS 49 Figure 1: A view in vertical section of one form of carburettor