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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2004
John T. Witz, Barrington, IL (US);
Albert F. Ditzig, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
John T. Witz, Barrington, IL (US);
Albert F. Ditzig, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
DFE II, LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a fuel treatment apparatus for magnetically treating fuel flowing through a fuel conduit. The fuel treatment apparatus essentially comprises an upper magnet assembly, a lower magnet assembly, and a fastening assembly. The magnet assemblies each comprise a magnet positioning cradle, a magnet, and a magnet cover plate. Each cradle comprises a pair of seat flanges upon which the magnets seat. The cover plates maintain the magnets in seated engagement within the cradles and a uniform magnetic field is directed orthogonal to the planes in which the seat flanges lie. Each cradle further comprises a conduit-receiving groove. When the magnet assemblies are fastened to one another via the fastening assembly, the conduit-receiving grooves cooperatively form conduit-receiving apertures. The typically linear fuel conduit is receivable through the conduit-receiving apertures and thus the fuel treatment apparatus is designed to magnetically treat fuel flowing through the fuel conduit.