Patent ID: 6715583
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: F01N

Abstract:
An anti-pollution and muffling device for the treatment of the exhaust gases produced by internal combustion engines and the like, said device comprising:entry means to bring the exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine to the device; insulated core for receiving the exhaust gases; multiple interconnected passage means within said core for directing the gas flow in diverse paths, greatly increasing the surface area within the core, and increasing the opportunities for collisions of gas molecules with the walls of the passage means and with each other, said increase in collisions resulting in a progressive and substantial rise in the kinetic energy and thereby the temperature within said core causing alterations to the molecules which greatly diminishes pollutants contained therein and said diverse paths resulting in repeated alteration of the direction of the gas flow causing a muffling effect in the noise associated with such gas flow; tube means to convey the gas flow containing the altered molecules out of the core; at lease two chamber means, disposed at opposing ends of the core, and being integral therewith, the first of the at least two chamber means for receiving the gas flow from the core and the second of the at least two chamber means for receiving the gas flow from the first of the at least two chamber means, said chamber means for permitting the gas flow to expand and experience fewer collisions and form into swirling and convection patterns resulting in a successive decrease in the kinetic energy and the temperature as the gas flow moves from the first to the second of the at least two chamber means and such that the gas flow is caused to reverse direction as it progresses from the first to the second of the at least two chamber means resulting in a further muffling effect in the noise associated with the exhaust gas flow; transport means to direct the gas flow from the core into the first of the at least two chamber means; transport means to direct the gas flow from the first of the at least two chamber means into the second of the at least two chamber means; and conduit means for removing the cooled, noiseless exhaust gases containing the altered molecules from the device.