Suction gas protective device in motor vehicle

Claim 1

In combination with a vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an engine hood enclosing the engine, an air inlet in the hood and an opening in the hood spaced from the air inlet, an inlet conduit extending upwardly through said opening and spaced from the periphery of the opening and with one end connected to an air cleaner, an annular peripheral wall superposed and spaced from said opening, means mounting said wall outwardly and spaced from the conduit, a circular protecting means including means detachably connecting the same to the periphery of an end of said annular peripheral wall and projecting to and about said opening and extending to said hood, said circular protection means having an outer cylindrical elastomer shell and a contiguous inner concentric metallic stiffening shell with said outer cylindrical shell being slightly longer than said inner shell and operable to form a sealing engagement about the periphery of the opening in the top of said engine hood, a cover having a sidewall extending to the peripheral wall, means securing the cover to said peripheral wall and the spacing between said inlet conduit and said peripheral wall and said circular protection means defining an air inlet means whereby the flow of air passes from the air inlet in the hood through the opening in the hood to the air cleaner.