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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1975
David L De Martelaere, Troy, MI (US);
Kent-Moore Corporation, Warren, MI (US);
Abstract
Catalytic converter emptying and filling device attachable to the housing of a catalytic converter containing a bed for storing catalytic pellets. In such a converter the housing is formed of inner and outer walls separated slightly from one another to form a space therebetween which is filled with heat insulating material. The inner and outer walls of the housing each have a port registering with the other port for emptying and filling the bed of the converter. The changer device includes a rigid conduit or pipe connectible to the port for passing the pellets to a receptacle or canister rigidly attached to the pipe for receiving the pellets from the converter and further including a vibrating instrumentality rigidly attached to the device for imparting vibrational turbulence to the rigid assembly making up the device. A feature of the device is the provision having the function of clampingly securing one end of the pipe to the inner wall of the converter housing to translate the vibratory motions directly to the inner wall and storage bed of the housing and the further function of connecting one end of the pipe to the housing port for passing the catalytic pellets in either direction therethrough.