Exhaust gas suppressor for motor vehicles

Claim 1

A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR HOT, NOXIOUS EXHAUST GASES EMITTED UNDER PRESSURE FROM A SOURCE THEREOF, A CONDUIT HAVING AN INLET FOR CONNECTION TO SAID SOURCE, A FIRST AIR COOLED CHAMBER, SAID CONDUIT HAVING A SINUOUS FORM IN SAID CHAMBER, A SECOND C HAMBER HAVING AN INLET, SAID CONDUIT HAVING AN OUTLET END AND CONNECTED TO THE INLET OF THE SECOND CHAMBER, A PLURALITY OF PARTITIONS DIVIDING THE SECOND CHAMBER INTO A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL PASSAGES, A THIRD CHAMBER CONNECTED TO THE SECONDCHAMBER, SAID SECOND CHAMBER HAVING AN OUTLET OPENING INTO THE THIRD CHAMBER, A PLURALITY OF STAGGERED BAFFLE PLATES IN THE THIRD CHAMBER DEFINING A TORTUOUS PASSAGE FOR GAS PASSING THERETHROUGH, A VERTICALLY DISPOSED FLUID CHEMICAL TREATMENT TANK, A PIPE CONNECTING THE THIRD CHAMBER TO THE TANK, AND ANOTHER PIPE CONNECTING THE TANK TO THE FIRST NAMED INLET FOR DILUTING HOT GASES THEREIN BY CHEMICALLY TREATED COOLED GAS, AND A VALVED OUTLET CONNECTED TO SAID OTHER PIPE FOR EXHAUSING PART OF THE CHEMICALLY TREATED COOLED GASES TO THE ATMOSPHERE, EACH OF THE SECOND AND THIRD CHAMBERS AND SAID TANK HAVING VALVE CONTROLLED DRAIN PIPES FOR SELECTIVELY DRINING LIQUID THEREFROM, EAHC OF THE BAFFLE PLATES IN THE THIRD CHAMBER BEING CURVED AND ALTERNATELY CONNECTED TO OPPOSITE WALLS OF THE THIRD CHAMBER, SAID VALVED OUTLET INCLUDING A SPIRNG BIASED ELEMENT NORMALLY HOLDING SAID VALVED OUTLET CLOSED WITH PREDETERMINED PRESSURE.