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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Richard K Gardner, Montpelier, OH (US);
Joseph W Sullivan, Lafayette, IN (US);
Gerald M Distel, Bryan, OH (US);
Roger D Wieland, Bryan, OH (US);
Ingersoll-Rand Company, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Abstract
A muffler for use with a pneumatic motor the muffler including a housing having a first longitudinal wall, a second longitudinal wall, a first lateral wall, a second lateral wall, and a front wall where the first and second longitudinal walls include an exhaust port and the front, longitudinal and lateral walls define a muffler chamber. The muffler also includes first and second baffle located in said muffler chamber. The first and second baffles include a first side and a second side, and each baffle extends away from a first lateral wall substantially parallel to the longitudinal walls and terminates in a baffle edge. The first and second baffles dividing the muffler chamber into at least two exhaust chambers, the baffle edges define a crossover opening for flowing an exhausted fluid to an adjacent exhaust chamber. A sound absorbing media along said first and second sides of said first and second baffles.