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US 2006/0037565 A1Published application
Vehicle mounted filter assembly for entrapment of ambient air pollutants
OwnerGeorge Coatesinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle mounted filter assembly for entrapment of air pollutants, the filter assembly including a bracket mounted to the vehicle forward of the radiator assembly, or behind the radiator, the bracket having two opposed vertical channels for the slidable receipt of a filter assembly having a filter medium of charcoal, gauze or ionic attraction, the filter being slidably removable from the bracket for discard and a new filter inserted, this interchange occurring on a regular service basis.
Claims13
A vehicular mounted filter assembly for the entrapment of ambient air pollutants comprising:
- a land vehicle having a motor means mounted to a chassis for propulsion of said vehicle, said vehicle having an air flow path from an ambient atmosphere through a body grill to an air intake manifold on said motor, said air flow path including a motor air filter positioned prior to said air intake manifold;
- an ambient air filter assembly mounted in said air flow path between said body grill and said motor air filter of said vehicles, said ambient air filter assembly comprising a frame member mounted to said chassis of said vehicle, said frame member for receipt of a filter medium for the passage therethrough of a portion of the ambient air drawn through said grill en route to said motor air filter and said air intake manifold, said filter medium for the collection of particular matter in the ambient air when said motor is operating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.