Patent ID: 7137199

Claim:
A method of inserting a bearing jacket and a monolith of a catalytic converter, in particular of a motor vehicle, into a pipe, wherein before inserting the monolith with the bearing jacket into the pipe the bearing jacket ( 2 ) surrounding the monolith ( 3 ) on the periphery is pressed onto the monolith ( 3 ) in a first peripheral section ( 8 ) during an initial phase and in a second peripheral section ( 9 ), whereby the two peripheral sections ( 8 , 9 ) together are smaller than the total circumference of the monolith ( 3 ) surrounded by the bearing jacket ( 2 ) pressed onto it; the bearing jacket ( 2 ) is pressed onto the monolith ( 3 ) during a subsequent second phase in at least one third peripheral section ( 16 ) situated between the first peripheral section ( 8 ) and the second peripheral section ( 9 ), whereby the first peripheral section ( 8 ) and the second peripheral section ( 9 ) together with all the third peripheral sections ( 16 ) are the same size as the total circumference of the monolith ( 3 ) surrounded by the bearing jacket ( 2 ) pressed onto it; and wherein the monolith with the bearing jacket pressed therein is inserted into the pipe.