Internal combustion engine exhaust afterburner

Claim 1

COMBUSTION APPARATUS FOR TREATING EXHAUST GASES COMPRISING A CASING HAVING AN UPSTREAM END, AN EXHAUST GAS INLET CONNECTED TO SAID CASING TO INTRODUCE EXHAUST GASES INTO SAID UPSTREAM END IN A DIRECTION GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LENGTH OF SAID CASING, AN ELONGATED COMBUSTION CHAMBER CLOSED AT ITS END ADJACENT SAID EXHAUST GAS INLET POSTIONED GENERALLY AXIALLY OF SAID CASING, IGNITION MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID CASING COAXIALLY OF SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER AT THE DOWNSTREAM END OF SAID CASING REMOTE FROM SAID EXHAUST GAS INLET, MEANS BETWEEN SAID COMBUSTTION CHAMBER AND SAID CASING SUPPORTING SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER AND PROVIDING ALTERNATE TWO SETS OF PASSAGES EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID CASING, ONE SET OF PASSAGES CONDUCTING EXHAUST GASES FROM SAID EXHAUST GAS INLET TO THE END OF SAID CASING REMOTE FROM SAID EXHAUST GAS INLET AND ADJACENT SAID IGNITION MEANS, THE OTHER SET OF PASSAGES CONDUCTING GASES FROM ADJACENT THE CLOSED END OF THE SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER IN A DOWNSTREAM DIRECTION, AN OUTLET AT THE DOWNSTREAM END OF SAID SECOND SET OF PASSAGES, AND A PLURALITY OF AIR SUPPLY PASSAGE MEANS TO SUPPLY AIR TO SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER, SAID AIR SUPPLY PASSAGE MEANS ENTERING SAID CASING ADJACENT SAID IGNITION MEANS ARRANGED TO DIRECT AIR TOWARD SAID COMBUSTION CHAMBER.