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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Matthew W Jaeger, Stillwater, OK (US);
Richard C Todhunter, Stillwater, OK (US);
David J Dickson, DesMoines, IA (US);
Douglas P McIntire, Daveville, VA (US);
Assignee:
Brunswick Corporation, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1231 / ;
Abstract
A flame arrestor (70) for a marine engine (12) includes an air box (72) mounted to the combustion air intake (14), and a uniplanar flame arresting element (78) mounted to the air box (72) and passing combustion air therethrough in a first direction (80) into the air intake (14) and blocking flame propagation in a second opposite direction out of the air intake (14). Air flow from the flame arresting element (78) to the air intake (14) is rectilinear.