Patent ID: 8608135

Claim:
An air flow enhancing plate for a carburetor, the carburetor having an outer wall, a flat top surface and a contoured carburetor air intake opening extending down from its top surface to form a throat with a sidewall substantially normal to its top surface, the carburetor air intake opening having an hourglass shape with four outermost points, and said air flow enhancing plate comprising: a main body with spaced upper and lower surfaces and a contoured inner plate opening formed by a contoured inner perimeter of said plate, said plate opening having an hourglass shape, said plate extending over the top surface of the carburetor and having inner contoured areas extending inward of the four outermost points of the hourglass shaped carburetor opening, said hourglass shape of said plate opening being sized and shaped to flushly align with said contoured hourglass shape of the carburetor air intake opening, and said upper surface of said inner perimeter being rounded to form a fluted plate opening; a securing rib extending from said main body, said rib being sized and shaped to snuggly receive the outer wall of the carburetor to join said plate to the top of the carburetor; and, wherein said hourglass shaped plate opening is adapted for aligned registry with the hourglass shaped carburetor air intake openings with said contoured inner perimeter of said lower surface of said plate being adapted for flush alignment with the sidewall of the contoured carburetor air intake opening, said fluted plate opening and said flush alignment improving air flow into the throat of the carburetor.