Muffler
CA 2187659 C · Owner: Young, Jeffrey L. · Inventors: Steger, Christopher J.; Hult, David R.; Young, Jeffrey L.
Overview
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An improved muffler for vacuum cleaners and other product applications is disclosed. The muffler includes a muffler body or enlarged head with a smaller hollow shaft extending from an open end of the muffler body or enlarged head for attachment to an exhaust of a vacuum cleaner or other application. The smaller hollow shaft terminates short of a transverse end wall of the muffler body. The transverse end wall may be constructed as a separate cover element. A noise dampening element is positioned adjacent the transverse end wall and also along an inner circumferential wall of the muffler body in order to dampen noise transmitted from the vacuum cleaner exhaust that passes through the smaller …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 10, 1996 and granted December 7, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 10, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 10, 2018.
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