Device for the deflection of the air jet pulse from the air dryer of large truck air brakes

• US 20110048565A1
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rick Kirby
• Original Assignee: Rick Kirby
• Inventors: Kirby, Rick
• Granted Patent: US 8,776,834 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 138/103
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/261 by adsorption
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/002 Air treatment devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/0318 Processes

Abstract

The air deflection device disclosed herein prevents the development of a cloud of dirt and debris when the air dryer essential to the air brakes of large trucks or other vehicles ejects a high velocity pulse of air from the bottom of the air dryer onto the ground. The air deflection device disclosed herein deflects the pulse of air away from the ground harmlessly toward the engine and transmission of the truck. The air deflection device disclosed herein is designed and configured so as to easily fit and be fastened to the bottom of a truck'"'"'s air braking system air dryer. The pulse of air from the air dryer is routed through the air deflection device in such a manner as to be harmlessly directed toward the engine and transmission of the large truck.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture designed and configured to deflect the air jet pulse from an air dryer of an air braking system comprising:

A body;

An inlet port on said body;

An outlet port on said body;

A channel through said body connecting said inlet port to said outlet port;

A means for connecting said device to said air dryer.

Whereby, said air jet pulse from the said air dryer enters said inlet port, travels through said channel and exits said body through said outlet port to be deflected away from the ground.

2. A process for deflecting the air jet pulse from the air dryer of an air braking system comprising steps for:

Capturing said air jet pulse from said air dryer;

Deflecting said air jet pulse away from the ground;

Ejecting said air jet pulse away from the ground.