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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1995
Jon W Harwood, Toledo, OH (US);
AP Parts Manufacturing Company, Toledo, OH (US);
Abstract
A muffler is formed substantially from stamped components to include an array of flow tubes and a plurality of chambers communicating with selected flow tubes. The chambers are provided with siphon tube mounting grooves that extend between a plurality of the chambers. The grooves are disposed to lie at gravitational low points of the muffler. The muffler further includes a siphon tube closely engaged by the grooves and extending from the gravitational low points of the chambers into a downstream flow tube of the muffler. Pressure differentials in the flowing exhaust gas will cause condensate in the chambers to be sucked through the siphon tube and evacuated from the muffler.