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US 4,782,661 AGranted
Mat support/substrate subassembly and method of making a catalytic converter therewith
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Motley, Kenneth J. Pomeroy
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Abstract
A subassembly for controlling the mount density of an intumescent mat around a frangible catalyst coated monolith of unknown but varied dimension when the monolith is installed in a catalytic converter, wherein a convolute sleeve of thin intumescent mat from a single piece is wrapped in sufficient layers around the monolith to provide a resultant monolith-mat subassembly of predetermined dimension.
Claims4
A catalytic converter for purifying the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine comprising:
- a tubular metal shell of predetermined peripheral dimension;
- a first gas pervious ceramic catalyst element enclosed by the shell and spaced in one manner from the inside of said shell and arranged so that flow through the element is substantially axial with respect to the axis of the shell;
- a second gas pervious ceramic catalyst element enclosed by the shell and spaced in another manner from the inside of said shell and in serial alignment with said first catalyst element for serial flow therebetween and arranged so that flow through said second catalyst element is substantially axial with respect to the axis of the shell;
- and first and second layered intumescent means respectively in the space formed between the shell and said first and second catalyst elements;
- said first intumescent means having a different number of layers than said second intumescent means whereby to compensate for the different manner of spacing between the shell and the respective catalyst elements.
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A catalytic converter for purifying the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine comprising:
- a tubular metal shell of predetermined peripheral dimension;
- a first gas pervious frangible catalyst element enclosed by the shell and spaced in one manner from the inside of said shell and arranged so that flow through the element is substantially axial with respect to the axis of the shell;
- a second gas pervious frangible catalyst element enclosed by the shell and spaced in another manner from the inside of said shell and in serial alignment with said first catalyst element for serial flow therebetween and arranged so that flow through said second catalyst element is substantially axial with respect to the axis of the shell;
- and first and second layered intumescent means respectively in the space formed between the shell and said first and second catalyst elements;
- said first intumescent means having a different number of layers than said second intumescent means whereby to compensate for the different manner of spacing between the shell and the respective catalyst elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.