1986-05-12
1987-05-26
Joyce, Harold
98119, F23L 1702
Patent
active
046675825
ABSTRACT:
A dynamically balanced protective cap for exhaust pipes, including a tubular element having an angulated bias cut defining a slanted opening at one end thereof. A closure flap assembly is pivotally secured to the tubular element for pivotation about a horizontal axis. The closure flap assembly includes a closure plate configured to lie across the close the slanted opening at one end of the pipe. The flap assembly also has a pair of parallel, trapezoidally shaped balancing plates, each secured along one edge to one edge of the closure plate. The parallel balancing plates are disposed on opposite sides of the tubular element, and each carries a bearing sleeve which receives a stub axel secured to the tubular element. A pair of horizontally spaced, monoplanar wind vanes are secured to aligned edges on the two balancing plates, and each wind vane extends normal to the respective balancing plate to which it is secured.
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Davison Jerome G.
Hollingshead Gerald E.
Joyce Harold
Laney William R.
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