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Unitary elastic muffler assembly for a pneumatic device
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Inventors: McElroy, Jr., John O.;
Assignee: Berkmont Industries (Boyertown, PA)
Primary Examiner: Watson; Robert C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Scafetta, Jr.; Joseph
A unitary, elastic muffler assembly includes an arcuate, channel-shaped, sound-muffling section having opposite ends bridged by an integral elastic band. The assembly is telescoped over the tubular housing of a pneumatic device into a position to receive spent working fluid exiting from housing vents into the central area of the sound-muffling section wherein the fluid divides and follows arcuate flow paths defined by the tubular housing and the sound-muffling section through sound-attenuating material to exhaust ports located in the end walls of the sound-muffling section. The movement of the fluid along the defined flow paths of a total arcuate extent substantially greater than 90.degree. diminishes the noise level of the spent working fluid below 90 dBAs. Also, the fluid movement away from the housing vents avoids causing icing up or significant reducing of the operating efficiency of the pneumatic device. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A unitary, elastic muffler assembly adapted for telescopic engagement with the tubular housings of variously sized pneumatic devices exhausting spent working fluid from vents in a discrete peripheral segment thereof, comprising: a.
an arcuate, channel-shaped, sound-muffling section terminating at opposite end walls bridged by elastic band means, said sound-muffling section having a central fluid receiving area comprising a minor arcuate segment of the sound-muffling section and having fluid exhaust ports in said opposite end walls, said central fluid receiving area dividing said spent working fluid into two oppositely directed arcuate fluid flow paths; b.
sound-attenuating material substantially filling said arcuate, channel-shaped, sound-muffling section; and c.
baffle structures extending between side walls of said sound-muffling section; whereby, upon telescoping said assembly over the tubular housing of a pneumatic device, said arcuate, channel-shaped, sound-muffling section defines, with the tubular housing, two arcuate, sound-muffling, oppositely directed fluid flow paths divided from said central fluid receiving area through said sound-attenuating material and through said baffle structures to said exhaust ports in said opposite end walls.
2.
A unitary, elastic muffler assembly, according to claim 1, wherein said sound-muffling section extends substantially more than 90.
degree.
around the circumference of the tubular housing of a pneumatic device.
3.
A unitary, elastic muffler assembly, according to claim 1, wherein said sound-muffling section directs the spent working fluid substantially tangentially to the circumference of said tubular housing through said exhaust ports in said end walls.
4.
A unitary, elastic muffler assembly, according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the open area of the vents in said discrete peripheral segment in said tubular housing of a pneumatic device to the open area of said fluid exhaust ports in said end walls of said sound-muffling section is at least approximately 1
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