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Gear Ratio Multiplier Prototype Scheduled for Emissions Reduction Test

20 October 1997

Gear Ratio Multiplier Prototype Scheduled for Emissions Reduction Test

    FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 20 -- An automotive transmission
device designed to increase fuel mileage and reduce emissions without a loss
of power will undertake its final test on Tuesday, October 21, 1997 at
9:00 a.m.  This will be the third in a series of recent tests with the device.
The unit is a perfected model of two previous prototypes, which both produced
significant overall gains in performance.  The third run is designed to
confirm previous data and prove its emissions reduction claim.
    Members of the Texas Society of Automotive Engineers acknowledged that the
development of such a unit was totally unexpected.  "Most automotive research
in the field of fuel and emissions reduction has been concentrated in the area
of engine design," said Gary N. Beaumont, Principal Engineer for Eaton
Corporation and an officer of the SAE, who attended the second test run. "It
was assumed that the transmission system was already in a near perfected
state."
    Eddie Brooks, the inventor, toiled with the gear ratio concept for a
number of years, collaborating with a college professor of manufacturing
technology in California, to perfect the gear type specifications and
configuration.  The latest model of the device promises to be production-
ready, with one critical component to confirm.  Will it reduce emissions
without a reduction in performance?
    Brooks estimates a 38% to 40% mitigation of carbon monoxide and nitrogen
oxide emissions.  If his claim holds up, it would be a significant
breakthrough in attaining EPA Ambient Air Quality Standards.
    "We invited the EPA to the testing," Brooks stated, "but the agency
doesn't customarily oversee experimental test runs.  You send them the test
data, then they'll come to verify.  This is why we chose an ASCE certified
technician with a background in emissions testing.  So, there will be no doubt
that what we say is true."

SOURCE  Crossroads Research