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A silencing system for the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines or the like, and particularly diesel engines, wherein the system has means to convert high energy exhaust pulses found along the length of the silencing system into more or less standard pulses which means includes compliance devices...     

A reactive type marine muffler which combines principles of both baffled construction and expansion chamber attenuation with a liquid flow path to provide improved sound attenuation over a broad spectrum of octave bands and a substantially lower dB(A). The baffles are preferably dome-shaped with their...     

A muffler construction for an internal combustion engine. The muffler includes a housing having an inlet to receive exhaust gases from the engine and having an outlet for the discharge of gases. Located between the inlet and the outlet are a pair of baffles which are disposed in parallel spaced relation...     

A muffler having a low frequency silencing element therein that can be contained within the spatial limitations of a conventional muffler without increasing the back pressure. The low frequency silencing element includes a plurality of axially extending transfer tubes thus allowing the low frequency...     

A muffler for a percussive drill is provided consisting of a casing of general prismatic shape adapted for mounting on the drill. An inlet is present in the casing for receiving exhaust from the drill, the drill exhaust port and muffler inlet having the same cross-sectional area. Resilient rectangular...     

A muffler which does not require a low-frequency Helmholtz resonator includes an outer shell and first and second heads for closing the inlet and outlet ends, respectively, of the shell. First, second and third baffles are disposed internally of the shell and extend transversely therein. An outlet end...     

An air intake silencer includes a box-shaped expansion chamber constructed of identically dimensioned, separable havles respectively connected to a carburetor intake system and a tubular intake member. In a basic form of the silencer, the tubular intake member includes a metal tube mounted in the expansion...     

A muffler for attenuating sound in internal combustion engine exhaust systems comprises an inner shell subdivided into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber, inlet and outlet tubes for the muffler opening into the respective chambers, and an outer shell surrounding the inner shell but spaced transversely...     

A muffler for exhaust gases is constructed with a small casing skirting a portion of an exhaust gas inlet pipe. The end of the casing nearest the exit port of the pipe is blocked and provided with a layer of sound absorbing material. The exhaust gases exiting the pipe turn within the layer and flow back...     

An apparatus for reducing acoustical pressure in a tubing is disclosed comprising a first molded plastic member having a first support with an orifice extending therethrough and having a first side forming a substantially saucer shaped member. A plurality of first walls are molded into the first member...     

A vent silencer including an outer housing having an inlet and an outlet, and a divider plate is disposed within the housing and divides the housing into an upstream inlet chamber and a downstream chamber. Located within the inlet chamber and communicating with the inlet is a primary diffuser, while...     

A noise silencer for an internal combustion engine has a hollow pipe serving as an air intake for the internal combustion engine and having a length L which is an even submultiple of the wavelength at the lowest of a range of noise frequencies from the internal combustion engine which are to be attenuated....     

High temperature resisting cordage is wrapped around an exhaust gas muffler housing and covered with an outer wrap of metal to provide sound and thermal insulation for the muffler.

Exhaust muffler for sound suppression, particularly designed as an automotive muffler, which comprises a gas inlet tube communicating with a first chamber in an outer, preferably cylindrical, casing, and an exit tube coaxially aligned with the inlet tube within the casing, the inner end of the exit tube...     

An engine muffler which includes a chamber divided into two balanced sections, an inlet pipe that extends through a first chamber into the second, and a transfer tube for carrying exhaust gas from the second chamber to the first. A spark arrester at the exit end of the muffler includes a plurality of...     

Mufflers suitable for use with automobile engines include a main body closed at the forward and rear ends thereof by forward and rear end plates, an inlet pipe leading into the main body through an aperture in the forward end plate and an outlet pipe leading out of the main body through the rear end...     

A muffler for automobiles having a drum-shaped expansion chamber of diameter D and length h, to which gas inlet and outlet pipes and an insert pipe of a Helmholtz resonator open so that the gas flow traverses the expansion chamber substantially diametrically therethrough, wherein the ratio h/D is substantially...     

An automobile exhaust gas muffler construction for flowing exhaust gases, comprises a housing having spaced apart semi-cylindrical end walls interconnected by tangential straight side walls. The housing also includes a front wall having a tubular inlet extending therethrough and through at least a portion...     

A system for diffusing exhaust gases and controlling and suppressing backfire in an industrial truck is disclosed. Exhaust gases from the truck engine are first passed through a spark arresting muffler to remove hot, solid particles from the gas stream. The gases are then routed to a diffuser which is...     

An improved concentric pass-type muffler construction. The muffler includes an outer generally cylindrical casing enclosed by a pair of end heads, and an inlet tube, connected to the exhaust pipe of an engine, is mounted axially on one head, while an outlet tube is mounted on the opposite head. Located...     

An exhaust silencer comprising a primary exhaust gas expansion chamber, a secondary exhaust gas expansion chamber having a greater volume than said primary expansion chamber, an acoustically tuned length of exhaust pipe leading from the primary expansion chamber to the secondary expansion chamber and...     

A muffler for an internal combustion engine includes a cylindrical casing having end plates closing the interior thereof. At least one baffle extending perpendicularly to the central axis of the casing is provided for dividing the interior of the casing into a front chamber and a tuning chamber. A tuning...     

A sound-attenuating muffler for reducing the acoustic energy in an exhaust gas stream has an elongated cylindrical housing with a small ratio of diameter to length. Axially extending vanes are radially disposed to define an added number of flow passages. Exhaust gas enters an entry passage defined between...     

A muffler for reducing the audible noise level of exhaust gases emitted by combustion engines has an inlet tube with a patch of louvers or perforations and is arranged so that all or substantially all the gas flowing through the muffler is forced through the patch into an expansion chamber from which...     

A muffler having a sealed diffusion chamber provided at its front end with an inlet port of a cross section smaller than that of the diffusion chamber. Within the diffusion chamber there is an outlet pipe having a closed front end disposed a fixed distance from the inlet port. The rear end of the outlet...     

A muffler for internal combustion engines having the interior of an expansion chamber sectioned by a porous plate through which an exhaust inlet pipe is extended. The inlet pipe is closed at its down-stream end and is provided with many perforations in that part of the inlet pipe positioned in the expansion...     

An expansion-type muffler for internal combustion engines, interposed in an exhaust system, and provided with a chamber with a substantial volume. The chamber communicates with the up-stream and down-stream sides of the exhaust system. A plate member is connected with an inner wall of the muffler body,...     

A muffler for an internal combustion engine utilized on a motorcycle or the like. The muffler provides the necessary silencing action while being defined to be light in weight, small and pleasing in appearance. The exhaust gases are subdivided into a plurality of streams and successively conveyed through...     

This invention is a new and improved muffler for use on the exhaust of noise producing machines such as automotive engines, and the like. It is particularly characterized by utilization of a single inlet into a chamber from which there are a multiplicity of louvered or otherwise appropriately configured...     

A muffler comprising: a cylindrical body closed at opposite ends with end members; an exhaust gas in-flow tube penetrating and secured to one of the end members; an exhaust gas out-flow tube penetrating and secured to the other end member; and at least one perforated partition wall member for supporting...     

A muffler (10) for reducing the noise level of gases passing therethrough is disclosed. The muffler (10) includes a housing (12) including a longitudinally extending wall (14) and a pair of opposite end walls (16, 18). Baffle plates (32, 38, 42) divide the interior space of the housing (12) into a Helmholtz...     

This invention relates to a silencer for muffling the flow of exhaust gases from an engine before they enter the atmosphere. This silencer comprises a tubular housing having an absorption section with an inlet and an outlet opening. The absorption section is constructed of three walls: and outside wall,...     

An exhaust system of an automotive vehicle, comprises a muffler having a front end face to which an exhaust pipe is connected, and a tail pipe connected at its one end to the front end face of the muffler, the other end of the tail pipe being opened rearward of a rear end face of the muffler, so that...     

The invention relates to a muffler, which is suitable for large-scale production and which at a maintained or reduced sound level reduces the pressure drop of the exhaust gases as compared to known mufflers. The muffler comprises an insert of sheet metal cones with their apices directed toward the outlet...     

A muffler for use with machines such as pneumatic drills consists of an elastomeric housing divided into an admission chamber and a series of muffler chambers. Within the housing are an inlet conduit communicating with the admission chamber and each muffler chamber, an exhaust conduit communicating with...     

An exhaust muffler comprising an outer body having open ends which are enclosed by heads. An exhaust gas inlet tube is mounted in an opening in one head, while an outlet tube is mounted in an opening in the opposite end. The adjacent ends of the inlet and outlet tubes are spaced apart within the body....     

An exhaust silencer system for piston type internal combustion engines hag a wet-exhaust, having a muffler and a muffler bypass which contains water at slow and moderate engine speeds, the water being expelled by the exhaust gas pressure at high engine speed, opening said bypass to the flow of exhaust...     

A muffler for internal combustion engines and comprising a housing having an inlet passageway for admitting exhaust gases into the interior of the housing and an outlet passageway for discharging the exhaust gases from the housing, the interior of the housing providing a fluid passageway having a cross-sectional...     

A muffler for a refrigeration gas compressor which is tuned such that the attenuation curve and the impedance curve cross the frequency axis at the pumping frequency of the compressor so as to result in optimum sound attenuation for the higher frequencies with minimum impedance at the pumping frequency....     

An exhaust gas control system has a guiding pipe with a proximal inlet end for connecting to a distal end of an engine exhaust pipe. An expanding portion of the guiding pipe has a central rearward expanding cone and spiralling blades extending between the cone and the walls of the expanding portion....     

A power tool, especially power saw, having a two-stroke internal combustion engine, that is provided with a substantially horizontally arranged cylinder, a cooling air blower, with guide surfaces directed towards the belonging therewith and arranged on one side of the cylinder, and a muffler connected...     

An exhaust muffler for an internal combustion engine. The muffler has a pair of half-shells which are held together to form a muffler chamber. The half-shell structure is internally lined with sound absorbing material. The chamber inside this material is divided into a plurality of compartments by partitions...     

A tube-to-plate connection and method for making it utilize a plate defining an aperture where the tube is to be attached to the plate, with the portion of the plate surrounding the aperture including a flange extending away from the plane of the plate. The tube side wall lies generally within the flange....     

A sound suppression system having a sound suppression chamber formed from a longitudinally extending tubular housing. One end of the tubular housing is closed by an end plug which has a bore through which passes one end of a tubular member. The tubular member comprises a gun barrel having a cylindrical...     

A muffler comprising a housing (12) having end caps (16, 18) and partitions (32, 38, 42) which divide it into first and second expansion chambers (40, 44), a flow chamber (36), and a resonator chamber (34). An inlet tube (20) passes through end cap (16) and partitions (38) and (32) to open into chamber...     

A muffler of the expansion type comprises an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe connected with each other through a main body. Minimization of pressure pulsation is achieved by a variety of means including appropriately-located apertures in those portions of the walls of said pipes within said main body,...     

A muffler comprising a housing having inlet and outlet ends and having a venturi tube of smaller diameter than the housing disposed therewithin in communication with its outlet end is disclosed. The venturi comprises a first bell reducer, which reduces the cross-sectional area of the venturi to substantially...     

A silencer for exhaust gases from combustion engines comprises a perforated pipe (1) provided with an inlet (2) and an outlet (3). Arranged in the interior of the pipe (1) are intermediate walls (12,13,14) provided with through-flow openings (15,16). Extending co-axially around the pipe (1) in spaced...     

A straight-through flow muffler (10) is shown. A cylindrical housing (11) has an inlet (13a), an outlet (14a), and a pair of axially aligned, longitudinally spaced tubes (15, 16) extending from the inlet and outlet into the center of the muffler housing. Imperforate baffles (17, 18) separate the muffler...     

An acoustical silencer for a gas passage or exhaust duct for a gas turbine engine, which is composed of three parts. The first comprises an absorptive surface to absorb incident low frequency sound the second comprises an acoustically lined duct attenuating high frequency sound transmitted therethrough....     

An exhaust system for a vehicle includes an afterburner in communication with the exhaust manifold of the engine on the inlet side of the afterburner. The outlet port of the afterburner communicates with a muffler of unique construction which, in turn, communicates with a resonator. The system thereof...     

A boiler noise suppressor has one truss (2) mounted on a cover of an inlet flange (1), a perforated expansion nozzle (5), a pipe system (7) made of a several hundreds of pipes, a perforated outlet nozzle (8), at least one truss (11) mounted on a collar of the outlet nozzle. The pipe system (7) can be...     

A muffler for a motor vehicle is made up of a housing enclosing a pair of sheet metal plates impressed with semi-circular depressions with the plates combining to form a sinuously shaped gas duct of circular cross section. Walls positioned within the housing divide its interior into chambers. Perforations...     

An inner shell having aligned first and second expansion chambers is spacedly disposed in an outer shell in a manner to define therebetween four isolated chambers upstreamly positioned two of which surround the first expansion chamber and downstreamly positioned two of which surround the second expansion...     

A muffler for hermetically sealed compressors consisting of a body made of plastic material with two chambers separated by a wall and directly assembled on the compressor cylinder head by means of two lined up small tubes equipped with special sealing means. The danger that the muffler may break loose...     

The expansion chamber shell into which the gas from a noise source, such as an internal combustion engine, is rushed is held in an outer shell in a manner to define therebetween a clearance which acts as a sound damping means against the gas passing through the muffler. Thus, the noise caused by the...     

A motor cycle includes a frame, a front and rear wheel, and an engine mounted to the frame which has at least two exhaust pipes. A muffler is mounted to the frame beneath the engine, and both exhaust pipes discharge into the muffler. At least one tailpipe exhausts from the muffler. The silencing volume...     

A muffler for combustion engine in which a housing is subdivided into at least two successive reflection chambers. An exhaust gas inlet pipe enters the first input reflection chamber, and intermediate channels are provided for communicating between the reflection chambers. An exhaust gas outlet pipe...     

Resonator type mufflers of this invention utilize multiple chambers with inductor tubes between the chambers, and specific size and spatial relationships among the tubes and chambers. In one form of muffler suitable for industrial applications or vehicular use, elongated inductor tubes passing from one...     

A silencer unit has charging- and exhaust-side silencers which are integrally formed into a double-cylinder housing. The housing has an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder disposed in the outer cylinder. The charging-side silencer is connected to an air charging pipe of a pulse combustor to attenuate...     

Disclosed in an exhaust muffler for internal combustion engine such as opposed twin cylinder 2-cycle internal combustion engine of simultaneous ignition type for driving a chain saw. The muffler is connected at a plurality of points thereof to portions of the engine such as cylinders, characterized by...     

A muffler device of a motorcycle including a muffler body for silencing the noise of exhausts of an engine located below the engine and connected to exhaust pipes which in turn are each connected to one of cylinders of the engine. Discharge pipes are connected to the muffler body to discharge the exhausts...     

A relatively small, lightweight muffler is provided, especially adapted to low horsepower aircraft and comprises an elongated, essentially cylindrical structure made up of inner and outer casings having sound-absorbent-material-containing chambers and pressure-wave trap elements to minimize exhaust noises....     

A muffler comprises two Helmholtz resonators, one tuned for high frequency and the other for low frequency. There is a resonance of the high frequency resonator volume's compliance and the effective tail pipe gas inertance which produces an undesirable low frequency noise. This is matched by the resonant...     

A muffler installed on an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, which dissipates thermal stresses which arise from differing thermal expansions of the members comprising the muffler. The muffler comprises an outer cylinder, a pair of inner pipes, slidable into each other, penetrating into...     

The invention relates to a liquid pulsation dampener device for use in a piping network, including at least one hydro-pneumatic vibration dampener arranged at the delivery side of a positive-displacement pump. Such pumps are apt to impose normally undesirable periodic fluctuations or pulsations upon...     

A noise suppression device is provided for a vacuum cylinder having a conl head which is used in high speed paper converting machines and which includes a sound attenuator which is integral with the vacuum cylinder. The sound attenuator incorporates a plurality of attenuation chambers within the vacuum...     

A muffler for use with various instruments and furnished with a spark arresting function. An inlet pipe for receiving exhaust gases from the instrument and an outlet pipe for discharging the exhaust gases to the atmosphere are arranged in an expansion chamber of a housing with their one end open to the...     

The silencer device set forth herein in its various embodiments consists of at least one channelling bounded by at least one turn of a flat spiral, or of a cylindrical helix, or of a tapered helix, which may be blanked-off or open at one of its ends or at both of its ends, and/or incorporate radial holes...     

A sound suppressor for a firearm, including a hollow cylindrical casing having an entrance end and an exit end; and at least one disc-shaped baffle element coaxially mounted within the casing and between the ends. The element has front and rear faces with an annular area therebetween and at least one...     

A muffler for an internal combustion engine includes an outer box composed of a plurality of separate bodies made of a formed sound insulation material and having portions joined by an adhesive, the outer box having an inlet for introducing an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine and an outlet...     

A muffler for an internal combustion engine for effectively damping noise over a wide frequency range, from low frequency noise to high frequency noise. An absorber packed type muffler adapted to absorb noise by a sound absorbing material is inserted in and fixed to a housing which has a bore or bores...     

A plug section for a muffler, including an outer body and having an inlet pipe for introducing exhaust gas into the body. The inner end of the inlet pipe located within the body portion is closed off. Surrounding the inlet pipe is a conical baffle having a small diameter end secured to the inlet pipe...     

A heat and sound insulation device including a heat and sound insulation material composed of a laminated body comprising elongate glass fibers and ceramic fibers mixed therewith, the heat and sound insulation material having an inner surface entirely exposed in an exhaust passage for increased heat...     

An exhaust silencer for an internal combustion engine, has an inlet, a noise-attenuation chamber containing a noise-attenuation matrix, and an outlet. The noise-attenuation chamber is of rectangular cross-section, and has one transverse dimension which is substantially larger than the other transverse...     

A muffler for large internal combustion diesel engines in which the structure cancels sound waves by interference. The gases generally flow in one direction through the muffler with intermittant flow reversal occurring only upon acceleration. The muffler is formed with a plurality of longitudinal chambers...     

Two embodiments of outboard motors incorporating improved silencing systems for the exhaust gases of the powering engine. In each embodiment, a Helmholtz resonator is provided by a resonance chamber formed at least in part by a spacer plate that is interposed between the power head and drive shaft housing...     

A noise converter according to this invention is provided with gas conducting spiral passages defined between spirally twisted outer and inner tubes polygonal in cross-section. A gaseous body generating noise flows through the gas conducting passages from one end to the other. Since noise is generated...     

A vacuum cleaner apparatus having separate passages for outgoing air from the blower and for cooling air for the blower motor, and having a number of turns in each of said passages, each of said passages having a plurality of variations in cross-sectional area, the passages being provided with sound-absorbent...     

A high performance vehicular muffler is provided. The muffler includes a centrally disposed outlet tube, an inlet tube and a transfer tube. Internal baffles define a low frequency tuning chamber with which the inlet tube and transfer tube communicate. A high frequency tuning chamber surrounds the portion...     

A catalytic converter has a gas pervious catalyst support member extending across a housing and dividing the housing into an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The catalyst support member has two parallel spaced apart upper and lower foraminous sheets which undulate across the width of the container...     

A muffler is provided with a pair of stamp formed internal plates and a pair of stamp formed external shells. The internal plates define inlet and outlet tubes at least portions of which are provided with arrays of perforations or louvers. One or more tuning tubes may be stamp formed in the internal...     

Disclosed is a simple steam trap muffler. It is comprised of two comentric pipes which are both welded at their first ends to the exhaust pipe of a steam trap. The steam and condensate flows into the inner pipe from the exhaust pipe. The inner pipe has its opposite end capped so that the steam and condensate...     

The muffler comprises a main sound arresting chamber formed in the interior of an outer cylinder of the muffler and a bracket fixedly secured to the outer surface of the outer cylinder for mounting the muffler on a body of a motorcycle. The muffler is provided with an auxiliary sound arresting chamber...     

A retroverted flow type exhaust gas muffler has curved flow directing and guiding plates mounted on end headers to facilitate flow reversal.

A muffler is provided with a pair of stamp formed internal plates and a pair of stamp formed external shells. The internal plates define inlet and outlet tubes at least portions of which are provided with arrays of perforations or louvers. One or more tuning tubes may be stamp formed in the internal...     

A silencer-carrying rotary vane pump wherein a hollow portion is provided between inner and outer circumferential walls of a cylindrical center case of the vane pump. The hollow portion is closed with side covers to form a sealed chamber through which a pumped out medium is discharged to the outside....     

A sound attenuation apparatus which is to be connected to an airflow duct and is to receive the air from the duct. The sound attenuation apparatus includes a mass of plates located in a stacked arrangement with peripheral gaps being formed between the plates. The airstream is to be conducted through...     

A suction sound damper for a slide piston refrigerant compressor that includes a suction nipple that is pushable into a groove of a cylinder cover of the compressor when the nipple is in a predetermined position, and is seatable in sockets formed in two shells of a damper housing. The shells are sealed...     

A suction type road sweeping vehicle utilizes a suction fan for generating a vacuum within an air tight container mounted on the chassis. Suction conduits extend at one end into the container and are provided at the other end with nozzles. A sound attenuation system connected to an outlet duct of the...     

The silencer according to the invention contains two chambers (10,11) separated by a partition wall (14) and includes also a guide plate (25) guiding cooling air from a fan (27) through a channel (26) in which recesses (23) from one chamber terminate. By means of an ejecting function, then being formed,...     

A sound attenuating muffler for motor vehicle exhaust systems contains a fibrous glass cartridge with a binder-hardened outer shell surrounding a soft fibrous core through which a gas flow tube extends.

The invention is directed to a compact noise abatement muffler for an internal combustion engine. The muffler includes a housing having a plurality of chambers and fluid conductors for enabling the exhaust gases passing through the muffler to achieve at least 4 changes of direction of gas flow. The muffler...     

A flat, box-like muffler formed of metal upper and lower housing sections and internal gas passage defining plates has drainage holes to allow liquid that collects on the top of the muffler or on the bottom of the lower section inside the housing to drain out of the muffler. A special sound attenuation...     

A muffler comprising a casing, a defining member for defining at least two resonance chambers in the casing, and a pipe for flowing a gas therethrough. Each of the resonance chambers has a different resonance frequency, and the pipe is communicated with each resonance chamber. Therefore, a plurality...     

A muffler for impeding and reflecting exhaust to reduce the formation of sound waves through a plurality of cone and barrier assemblies alternately and longitudinally spaced in a cylindrical body, with the apex of a conical member of each cone assembly and an outwardly extending cylindrical portion of...     

Two embodiments of improved exhaust gas systems for outboard motors. In each system, the slow speed exhaust gases go through at least three expansions and contractions before discharge to the atmosphere. In one embodiment of the invention, the slow speed exhaust gases go through four expansions and contractions....     

A system of stamp formed mufflers is provided. Each muffler in the system includes a pair of plates formed to define an array of tubes therebetween. At least one external shell is securely affixed to at least one of the plates to surround the tube. The mufflers in the system have generally the same pattern...     

A light weight exhaust muffler is provided comprising a pair of formed external shells and a pair of pipes disposed therein. The external shells are formed to include peripheral portions and chambers extending from the peripheral portions. The chambers are separated from one another by baffle creases...     

An exhaust tube capable of having a better silencing effect without adversely affecting the horsepower output of an engine is provided. The exhaust tube includes a tube body having two end plates, two spaced disks dividing the tube body into three gas chambers and a pipe having an expanded first end,...