Air cleaner assembly

Claim 1

AN AIR CLEANER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING: A HOUSING HAVING AN OPEN END AND A CLOSED END AND HAVING A PERIPHERAL FLANGE ABOUT SAID OPEN END AND A CENTRAL APERTURE THROUGH SAID CLOSED END; AN OUTLET TUBE SECURED IN SAID APERTURE IN SAID CLOSED END OF SAID HOUSING FOR CONVEYING CLEAN AIR OUT OF SAID AIR CLEANER ASSEMBLY; A SILENCER PAD DISPOSED CENTRALLY IN SAID OPEN END AND DEFINING WITH SAID HOUSING AN ANNULAR INLET PASSAGE; A PLURALITY OF DEFLECTORS IN SAID INLET PASSAGE ANGULARLY DISPOSED TO DEFLECT INCOMING AIR AND IMPART A SWIRL THERETO; A FRUSTO-CONICAL MEMBER SECURED TO SAID PERIPHERAL FLANGE IN SAID HOUSING HAVING A FRUSTO-CONICAL PORTION THEREOF SLOPING INWARDLY FROM THE EXTERNAL WALL OF SAID HOUSING TOWARD SAID CLOSED END OF SAID HOUSING, THE EDGE OF SAID SLOPED PORTION TERMINATING ON A PLANE SPACED FROM SAID CLOSED END WITHIN SAID HOUSING; A PLURALITY OF SKIMMER FLANGES ON SAID FRUSTO-CONICAL PORTION FOR REMOVING LARGER IMPURITIES CONVEYED ALONG THE SLOPING PORTION THEREOF; A FRUSTO-CONICAL BAFFLE SECURED TO AND SUPPORTED BY SAID OUTLET TUBE AND SLOPING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID OUTLET TUBE TOWARD SAID CLOSED END OF SAID HOUSING AND TERMINATING ADJACENT THE EDGE OF SAID FRUSTO-CONICAL PORTION AND DEFINING AN ANNULAR DUST PASSAGE THEREWITH; AND A PLURALITY OF AIR DEFLECTOR VANE CENTRALLY DISPOSED IN SAID HOUSING OVERLYING A PORTION OF SAID FRUSTOCONICAL BAFFLE AND BEING SUPPORTED THEREBY AND EXTENDING INTO SAID OUTLET TUBE, SAID VANES HAVING A SPHERICAL SHAPE AND BEING ADAPTED TO REMOVE THE SWIRL FROM THE AIR FLOWING THERETO AND CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THE AIR FLOW WHEREBY THE AIR FLOW IS DIRECTED AXIALLY OUT OF THE AIR CLEANER THROUGH THE OUTLET TUBE AND THE TOPS OF SAID AIR DEFLECTORS CONTACTING AND PARTIALLY SUPPORTING SAID SILENCER PAD.