Catalytic muffler

• US 3,061,416 A
• Filed: 11/22/1957
• Issued: 10/30/1962
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1957
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George P. Kazokas
• Original Assignee: George P. Kazokas
• Inventors: Kazokas, George P.
• Application Number:
  US03/698,266
• Time in Patent Office: 1,803 Days
• US Class Current: 422/176
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/944 Simultaneously removing carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons or carbon making use of oxidation catalysts three-way-catalysts [TWC] B01D53/9445
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2240/02 a heat exchanger
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2240/06 an inertial, e.g. centrifugal, device
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2260/08 for preventing heat loss or temperature drop, using other means than layers of heat-insulating material
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2330/10 Fibrous material, e.g. mineral or metallic wool
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2570/02 Lead
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/021 by means of filters
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/037 by means of inertial or centrifugal separators, e.g. of cyclone type, optionally combined or associated with agglomerators
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/285 specially adapted for fibrous supports, e.g. held in place by screens
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2882 Catalytic reactors combined or associated with other devices, e.g. exhaust silencers or other exhaust purification devices combined with absorbents or adsorbents only F01N3/0814; combined with particulate filters F01N3/035
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2889 with heat exchangers in a single housing
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2892 Exhaust flow directors or the like, e.g. upstream of catalytic device
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/30 Arrangements for supply of additional air control, e.g. using by-passes or variable air pump drives, F01N3/22
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 50/20 Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/30 Exhaust treatment

Claims

1. A MUFFLER COMPRISING:

A BODY HAVING AN INLET AND AN OUTLET, A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR ADJACENT SAID INLET, AN OUTLET FOR SAID SEPARATOR, A TUBULAR MEANS CONCENTRICC WITH SAID BODY PROJECTING FROM THE OUTLET EXTREMITY THERE-OF AND TERMINATING ADJACENT SAID OUTLET, THE PASSAGE FORMED BETWEEN SAID BODY AND SAID TUBULAR MEANS PERMITTING ENTRY OF AIR INTO SAID BODY, A NOZZLE SUPPORTED IN THE EXTREMITY OF SAID TUBE ALIGNED WITH AN OUTLET AND AA CATALYST BETWEEN SAID NOZZLE AND SAID BODY OUTLET.