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In 1974 I had a concept for a better engine, and
I founded Britton Engines Corporation in New York to raise capital
to exploit it. It was called a heat exchanging engine, but is
now renamed a recuperative engine at the suggestion of Hetex's
patent attorney, Dan Schaeffer. Capital was scarce, but with family
help, I worked away and found several solutions to the problem.
My ninth prototype ran with good enough results to prove the physics
of the method. With continued engineering, I improved it and applied
for and was granted US patents on two-stroke and four-stroke versions
of the engine in November 2001 and January of 2002. These engines
are expected to improve the fuel economy of an automobile by about
45%. In other words, a car that gets 30 miles per gallon with
its present day engine may be expected to get 44 miles per gallon
if fitted with the recuperative engine.
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