Carburetor throttle control detent mechanism

Abstract

A carburetor having a throttle valve co-rotatable with a small diameter throttle shaft having a free end protruding from an exterior side surface of the associated carburetor body. A throttle lever detent arm is co-rotatable on and with the throttle shaft free end adjacent each body surface. Interengageable detents on the detent arm and body surface are spaced radially away from the throttle shaft rotational axis by a distance, for example, of about three times the shaft diameter. The arm and body detents are releasably engageable with one another for thereby yieldably holding the detent arm and hence the throttle shaft and associated throttle valve in any one of a plurality of selected angular settings. Hence, the angular tolerance variation on the set positions of the throttle valve blade as controlled by the detents is now, for example, approximately three times more precise so that the tolerance limits for such positions are now rendered three times tighter than otherwise would be possible when utilizing the prior art. Hence manufacturing tolerances do not need to be tightened up in order to achieve the exemplary three-fold improvement in operational tolerances of the carburetor throttle control detent mechanism. The invention thus provides a low cost throttle control detent mechanism that enables fine increment, positive stops at predetermined valve blade settings, such as the W.O.T. (wide-open throttle), idle and closed valve positions.