Exhaust converter

• US 3,304,711 A
• Filed: 09/21/1965
• Issued: 02/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest A. Eastman
• Original Assignee: Ernest A. Eastman
• Inventors: Eastman, Ernest A.
• Application Number:
  US04/493,611
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• US Class Current: 60/279
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/00 Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust electric control F01N9/00; monitoring or diagnostic devices for exhaust-gas treatment apparatus F01N11/00 ; collecting or removing exhaust gases of vehicle engines in workshops B08B15/00, on highways E01C1/005
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR SEPARATING HEAVIER CONSTITUENTS FROM LIGHTER CONSTITUENTS IN THE EXHAUST STREAM OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE HAVING A CARBURETOR COMPRISING:

A BODY PORTION HAVING AN ENCOMPASSING SIDEWALL, A CLOSED FRONT WALL FORMING A FIRST VERTICAL PARTITION AT ITS UPSTREAM END AND A CLOSED REAR WALL FORMING A SECOND VERTICAL PARTITION BEING PROVIDED WITH AN APERFIRST VERTICAL PARTITION BEING PROVIDED WITH AN APERTURE AT ITS UPPER PORTION, SAID SECOND VERTICAL PARTITION BEING PROVIDED WITH AN APERTURE IN ITS LOWER PORTION;

INLET MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID APERTURE IN SAID FRONT WALL IN FLUID COMMUNICATION WITH SAID BODY PORTION FOR RECEIVING SAID EXHAUST STREAM FROM SAID ENGINE;

AND OUTLET PIPE MOUNTED IN SAID APERTURE IN SAID REAR WALL IN FLUID COMMUNICATION WITH SAID BODY PORTION FOR DISCHARGING FLUIDS THEREFROM;

PARTITION MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID BODY PORTION IN THE FLOW PATH FROM SAID INLET MEANS TO SAID OUTLET MEANS, SAID PARTITION MEANS COMPRISING;

(A) A THIRD VERTICAL PARTITION MOUNTED IN SAID BODY PORTION DOWNSTREAM OF SAID FRONT WALL, SAID THIRD VERTICAL PARTITION HAVING AN APERTURE MOUNTED IN A BOTTOM PORTION THEREOF;

(B) A FIRST HORIZONTAL PARTITION MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID BODY PORTION BETWEEN SAID FRONT WALL AND SAID THIRD VERTICAL PARTITION, SAID FIRST HORIZONTAL PARTITION MEANS FORMING A FIRST ARCUATE PASSAGEWAY WITH SAID ENCOMPASSING SIDEWALL;

(C) A FOURTH VERTICAL PARTITION MOUNTED IN SAID BODY PORTION DOWNSTREAM OF SAID THIRD VERTICAL PARTITION, SAID FOURTH VERTICAL PARTITION HAVING AN APERTURE PROVIDED IN THE UPPER PORTION THEREOF;

(D) SECOND HORIZONTAL PARTITION MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID BODY PORTION BETWEEN SAID THIRD AND FOURTH VERTICAL POSITIONS, SAID SECOND HORIZONTAL PARTITION MEANS FORMING A SECOND ARCUATE PASSAGEWAY WITH SAID ENCOMPASSING SIDEWALL, SAID SECOND HORIZONTAL PARTITION MEANS BEING MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE SAID APERTURES IN SAID THIRD AND FOURTH VERTICAL PARTITIONS;