Apparatus for conditioning exhaust gases from internal combustion engines

Claim 1

AN EXHAUST GAS CONDITIONER OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED COMPRISING A MULTI-SECTION, SEPARABLE, UPRIGHT, HOLLOW HOUSING ADAPTED TO CONFINE A CHARGE OF WATER IN ITS LOWER PORTION, A TUBULAR CONDUIT UPSTANDING INTERIORLY OF THE HOUSING FROM CONNECTION WITH THE LOWER SECTION THEREOF THROUGH THE WATER CHARGE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE LATTER ADJACENT ITS BASE, AN EXHAUST GAS INPUT LINE SEALED THROUGH THE TOP OF SAID HOUSING IN SPACED, CONCENTRIC EXTENSION WITHIN SAID CONDUIT TO TERMINATE IN AN OPEN LOWER END ADJACENT THE BASE OF THE CONDUIT AND BELOW THE INFLOW COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CONDUIT AND WATER CHARGE, WHEREBY SAID CONDUIT AND LINE FUNCTION AS A PUMP REACTIVE TO THE INPUT OF GASES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THEIR DISCHARGE PRESSURES FOR THE DELIVERY OF A GAS-WATER MIXTURE UPWARDLY OF THE HOUSING FROM THE UPPER END OPENING OF THE CONDUIT ABOUT SAID LINE, A HOOD CLOSED AT ITS UPPER END ABOUT SAID LINE ABOVE THE CONDUIT IN DETACHABLY SUPPORTED RELATION WITH THE LATTER TO DISPOSE ITS OPEN LOWER END SPACEDLY AND CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT THE UPPER END OF THE CONDUIT BELOW SAID UPPER END AND ABOVE THE WATER CHARGE, A SHROUD SPACEDLY SURROUNDING SAID HOOD IN DETACHABLY SUPPORTED RELATION WITH AN INWARDLY FROM THE HOUSING WALLS AND FORMED WITH A RESTRICTED OPEN UPPER END SPACEDLY AND CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT THE UPPER END OF THE HOOD TO DEFINE A NARROW FLOW PASSAGE THEREBETWEEN AND AN OPEN LOWER END DEPENDING WITHIN THE WATER CHARGE, AN OUTLET TO ATMOSPHERE AT THE UPPER END OF THE HOUSING, AND A DIFFUSING BED UNIT OF INTERSTICED ALKALINE MATERIAL SUBSTANTIALLY INSOLUBLE IN WATER AND SOLUBLE IN THE GAS-WATER MIXTURE DETACHABLY SUPPORTED BY AND TRANS VERSELY OF THE HOUSING ABOUT SAID INPUT LINE IN SPACED RELATION WITH AND BETWEEN SAID OUTLET AND THE UPPER END OF THE SHROUD.