Automobile exhaust filter

Claim 1

A housing including an inlet opening and an outlet opening and adapted to be interposed in an exhaust system, said housing including internal baffle means defining a tortuous passage extending therethrough from said inlet to said outlet and a wet sump intermediate the opposite ends of said passage through which gases moving through said passage are forced to be bubbled, said housing being elongated and including top and bottom walls, said inlet and outlet openings opening into upper portions of the opposite ends of said housing, said baffle means including first, second and third transverse baffles disposed in said housing intermediate its opposite ends and spaced longitudinally of the housing from the inlet end to the outlet end thereof, said first and third baffles extending downwardly from the upper wall of said housing and terminating above the bottom wall thereof and said second baffle projecting upwardly from the bottom wall and terminating below the top wall, said sump being defined between the inlet end of said housing and said second baffle, said first baffle extending downwardly below the liquid level of said sump, said housing being constructed in upper downwardly and lower upwardly opening halves removably secured together, vertically spaced upper and lower horizontal apertured panels extending between the said second and third partitions, and filter material disposed between said panels, said upper and lower panels being supported from said upper and lower halves, respectively.