Motor vehicles – Power – With means for handling motor exhaust
Patent
1996-10-23
1999-02-23
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Motor vehicles
Power
With means for handling motor exhaust
180296, 248 59, B60K 1304
Patent
active
058734295
ABSTRACT:
A support arrangement for an exhaust system including an upright muffler and an upwardly-extending exhaust stack located behind the cab of a truck. An arm is mounted on a frame member of the truck, and a vibration isolator supported on the arm in turn supports the weight of an exhaust pipe elbow, a muffler, and a stack located above the muffler, all oriented generally upwardly. A pair of links are attached to the exhaust stack and to a mounting fastened to the back side of the cab to support the muffler and stack with respect to longitudinal and lateral movement relative to the truck while still permitting vertical movement of the cab relative to the frame.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4273477 (1981-06-01), Murphy
patent: 4654612 (1987-03-01), Smith
patent: 5649685 (1997-07-01), Keller
Photographs of Kenworth Muffler Mount for Large trucks, showing a mounting bracket on the cab of a truck, connected by a flexible sheet of material to a pair of muffler clamps at the top end of a muffler; and showing a metal bracket fastened to a truck chassis frame, with muffler clamps fastening and exhaust pipe to the bracket where the exhaust pipe extends horizontally from the engine toward an elbow beneath the vertically-extending muffler. Known prior to the present invention.
Freightliner Corporation
Lerner Avraham H.
Oberleitner Robert J.
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