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My father was a professor who had a hobby of building model airplanes, hand-carved gas propeller engines. I was always curious about flight as I watched flocks of birds and airplanes flying overhead. I wanted to fly. I grew up using two-stroke engines on motorcycles, mopeds, snowmobiles, etc. October of the year 2000, I had a dream one night and this idea came to me. I should design an exhaust system for a two-stroke engine that contains a ducted fan with a liner inside or the cylinder. It would funnel the exhaust into the ducting, eliminating the muffler from the system.
This would allow for more airflow from the fan which moves through the duct. I knew this would solve the problem of the traditional exhaust system which contains an exhaust muffler, blocking the airflow. I was able to develop the exhaust system by eliminating the exhaust muffler. I now have a prototype of a product that works with several markets available.
This invention is an expansion chamber exhaust system that encompasses a duct. The duct consists of an inner and outer sleeve, creating an exhaust chamber. The expansion chamber goes around the ducting and bolts to the engine and fan (fan and engine not included in invention). The inner sleeve is an airflow duct. The exhaust chamber is between the inner and outer sleeves. There is an inlet and an outlet to the expansion chamber on the inner wall of the ducting, creating an exhaust for the engine.
The expansion chamber stages consist of separate pieces of sheet metal formed in an arc shaped bend. These sheet metal sections are welded together at the inlet and outlet sides of the cylinder's ducting, and at the end and beginning of each stage. The inner liner/sleeve/ducting cylinder is welded to the outer sleeve/shell, creating a chamber. They all funnel air flow. The entire cylinder is the bottom of the expansion chamber stages. The width of the sheet metal changes according to the different number of the expansion chamber stages. The propeller is mounted directly to the engine's driveshaft, eliminating reduction gears and belts allowing for more airflow and less weight. The propeller's diameter determines the stages' combined radius. The engine's header connects to the divergent cone.
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