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Claim 1

AN EXHAUST GAS CLEANER COMPRISING A CYLINDER WITH A CLOSED END HAVING AN EXHAUST OUTLET EXTENDING THEREFROM, A PAIR OF CONCENTRIC RADIALLY PERFORATED TUBES DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CYLINDER FOR DEFINING WITHIN THE INNER TUBE A REACTION CHAMBER AND WITH THE OUTER TUBE EXTENDING AAXIALLY BEYOND THE INER TUBE TOWARDS SAID CLOSED END, A GAS PERVIOUS HEAT INSULATING MATERIAL DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID TUBES, AN ANNULAR EXHAUST GAS MANIFOLD, A TUBULAR WALL EXTENDING AXIALLY FROM THE INNER OF SAID TWO TUBES INTO CONNECTION WITH AN END OF SAID MANIFOLD, INLET MEANS ON SAID MANIFOLD FOR CONNECTION TO ENGINE EXHAUST, A BURNER TUBE DISPOSED COAXIALLY WITHIN SAID TUBULAR WALL AND CONCENTRIC WITH SAID MANIFOLD AND DEFINING WITH SAID TUBULAR WALL AN ANNULAR PASSAGE THROUGH WHICH GASES FROM SAID MANIFOLD PASS, A BURNER DISPOSED AXIALLY OF AND WITHIN SAID BURNER TUBE AND DIRECTED TO SPRAY A COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURE THROUGH SAID TYBE TOWARD SSAID REACTION CHAMBER, AND IGNITION MEANS WITHIN SAID BURNER TUBE ADJACENT SAID BURNER FOR FORMING A FLAME WICH TRAVERSES SAID TUBE TO ENTER SAID REACTION CHAMBER AXIALLY OF SAID EXHAUST GAS FLOW.