Gas purifying muffler

Claim 1

EXHAUST GAS CLEANSING MUFFLER MEANS COMPRISING A CLOSED OUTER CYLINDERICAL SHELL, AN ELONGATED CLOSED HOLLOW CYLINDER EXTENDING COAXIALLY THROUGH A FIRST END OF SAID SHELL A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE INTO THE INTERIOR THEREOF, AN ELONGATED OPEN ENDED TUBE CONCENTRICALLY DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CYLINDER AND DEFINING THEREWITH AN INNER CYLINDRICAL FIRING CHAMBER CONCENTRICALLY ENCLOSED BY AN OUTER ANNULAR RECEIVING CHAMBER, SAID TUBE HAVING A PLURALITY OF PERFORATIONS DISTRIBUTED OVER A SUBSTANTIAL INTERNAL END PORTION OF THE PERIPHERY THEREOF, AN EXHAUST GAS INLET COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CYLINDER AT A POINT RADIALLY OPPOSITE THE UNPERFORMATED END PORTION OF SAID TUBE, A BURNER DISPOSED AT THE UNPERFORATED END PORTION OF SAID TUBE FOR GENERATING AN IGNITION FLAME AXIALLY THROUGH THE FIRING CHAMBER DEFINED BY THE TUBE, A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL BLOCK HAVING ONE CLOSED END AND DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY WITHIN SAID OUTER CYLINDERICAL SHELL WITH THE OPEN END OF THE BLOCK IN COAXIAL COMMUNICATION WITH THE INTERNAL END PORTION OF SAID TUBE AND THE CLOSED END INWARDLY LONGITUDINALLY SPACED FROM THE SECOND END OF THE SHELL, SAID BLOCK DEFINING A BURNING CHAMBER AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY ELONGATED CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED SLOTS EXTENDING RADIALLY THROUGH THE PERIPHERY THEREOF, A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL INTERMEDIATE SHELL DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT SAID BLOCK AND RADIALLY SPACED THEREFORM, SAID INTERMEDIATE SHELL HAVING A CLOSED END IN ABUTMENT WITH THE CLOSED END OF THE BLOCK AND SPACED LONGITUDINALLY INWARD FROM SAID SECOND END OF SAID OUTLER SHELL WHILE HAVING AN OPEN END SPACED LONGITUDINALLY INWARD FROM SAID FIRST END OF SAID OUTER SHELL TO DEFINE A SUPERHEATING EXHAUST CHAMBER, AND AN EXHAUST OUTLET COMMUNICATING WITH SAID EXHAUST CHAMBER THROUGH THE SECOND END OF SAID OUTER SHELL.