François Baverey

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François-Anne Baverey (* 1873 in Lyon ; † 1956 ) was a French inventor and entrepreneur. His father was the textile industrialist Joseph Baverey in Irigny , who had received a patent around 1883 for his "machine for the production of shaped chenille". A patent for "Rotary valve mechanism for internal-combustion motors" followed in 1910.

François Baverey was gifted with mathematics and physics, was enthusiastic about astronomy and joined his father's company at an early age. When he bought a car in 1903, he promptly discovered mistakes. Friends with Édouard Rochet , the director of Rochet-Schneider , he was able to use his workshop and improve the carburetor. On January 22, 1905, he applied for a patent for his "Method of Regulating Carburation in Internal Combustion Engines" in France:

According to F. Baverey in Oullins (France), in order to keep the mixture, regardless of the speed of the machine, at a constant composition, a second nozzle is added to a first nozzle, the flow rate of which increases too rapidly with the speed, and the flow rate is less growing rapidly than needed. This is achieved in that the fuel flows out through one nozzle in the usual way, coming from a vessel with a constant liquid level, while the second nozzle h gives a constant flow rate independent of the suction effect of the machine.
For this purpose, the tube /, which is open to the outside air, is placed on the tube / that connects the nozzle Ii with the container r. The fuel enters the tube through an adjustable opening i under the constant pressure of the container. The sum of the outflow volumes from both nozzles is proportional to the amount of air drawn in. "

He founded the Société du Carburateur Zenith (according to his astronomical weakness) and opened branches as independent corporations:

  • 1910: Berlin
  • 1911: Detroit ( Zenith Carburetor Company ; later the Fuel Devices Division of Bendix Corporation)
  • 1912: London ( Zenith Carburetter Company with factory in Stanmore, Middlesex; merged with Solex in 1965)
  • 1916: Turin
  • Brussels
  • Milan
  • La Haye

In the United States, some Ford Model T, most Model A, Harley-Davidson, and Farmall tractors drove the Zenith carburetor ; In England in the 60s and 70s MG, Jaguar E-type, Saab, Volvo and Triumph. He was granted 35 patents in Germany.

For his equatorial telescope , he had the Parisian architect Pierre Parent erect a dome on the roof of his villa at 21 Boulevard des Belges in Lyon. In 1917 he lived in No. 6 Boulevard des Belges. In the twenties and thirties he acquired a remarkable collection of medieval art from Brimo de Laroussilhe . He was married to Antoinette-Marie-Claudine Riboulet. Her son André (October 16, 1906 - March 16, 1989) married Genevieve Durand (1914–2011) in February 1938, with whom he had the children Christian, Florence and Gérard.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=bibdat&docid=GB000190601633A also: Automatically regulating carburetor for explosion engines.
  2. ↑ Ö.P.Nr. 51.48 according to: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering - Volume 26 (1906) - page 698
  3. ↑ http://fr.1001mags.com/images/couv/L/LyonPeople/98/25366-LyonPeople-98-Page-037.jpg
  4. ↑ Constructions Métalliques et Entreprises: nomination comme administrateur de M. André Baverey, président-directeur général de Ferrand et Renaud et vice-président de Cofradel.
  5. ↑ Who's who in France - Volume 16 - page 95
personal data
SURNAME Baverey, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baverey, François-Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH 1956