US 4,305,477 AGranted

Exhaust tuning means for internal combustion engines

AssigneeDeere & Company

InventorJames W. Moore

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Abstract

A tuning chamber means particularly suited to two-cycle internal combustion engines includes an exhaust inlet pipe to receive exhaust from the exhaust ports of an engine, communicating with a diverging conical section which is followed by an exhaust chamber. An elliptically-shaped flat plate is located in the straight tubular section comprising the exhaust chamber. The plate is angled to produce a converging area at the end of the expansion chamber. An exhaust pipe or stinger is in communication with the interior of the expansion chamber in close proximity to the surface of the flat plate to receive engine exhaust gases and conduct the gases to the surrounding environment. Alternatively, the stinger can be so constructed that both ends of the stinger are closed, having a plurality of perforations in proximity to each end of the stinger to receive and exhaust gases to the surrounding environment from the exhaust chamber.

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Dependent claims

In combination with a two-cycle engine, a silencer comprising:

a housing having interior walls defining a generally cylindrical shaped chamber;
a first plate having a generally elliptical shape fixably mounted rearwardly in said chamber in an angled orientation and mounted such that said first plate's periphery is in continuous communication with a portion of said wall to form a converging area chamber portion;
a stinger fixably mounted in said first plate and extending rearward therefrom in communication with said chamber;
a second plate having a generally elliptical shape fixably mounted forward in said chamber in an angled orientation opposed to said first plate and mounted such that said second plate's periphery is in continuous communication with a portion of said side wall to form a diverging area, said first and second plates being in a longitudinally spaced relationship with said chamber;
an exhaust pipe leading from said engine's exhaust ports to said chamber, said exhaust pipe being fixably mounted in said second plate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.