Heated Intake: An anti-pollution device to help vaporize the gasoline supplied to a cold engine. The system consists of an air cleaner with a thermostat and a hot-air pipe connected to a heat stove on the exhaust manifold. When the engine is cold, the thermostat closes a damper, shutting off the air passage into the air cleaner from the engine compartment. All the air going into the air cleaner passes through the hot-pipe connected to the heat stove. Thus hot air is supplied to the carburetor almost as soon as the engine starts. As the engine warms up, the thermostat opens to the damper so that the air is then taken from the engine compartment and not from the heat stove.
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