Fire extinguishers – Special applications – Condition responsive control
Patent
1986-03-20
1989-04-11
Basinger, Sherman D.
Fire extinguishers
Special applications
Condition responsive control
169 60, 340519, 340578, 250554, 250342, A62C 3718
Patent
active
048197335
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to an automatic fire extinguishing equipment adapted to direct a nozzle towards the position of a flame starting within a supervising zone so as to discharge a fire extinguishing liquid to extinguish the flame, which equipment comprises a flame detecting apparatus including a detecting element for detecting a flame and device for scanning and driving the detecting element in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, for searching the supervising zone and outputting data concerning the flames; a storage section for storing the detection data from the flame detecting apparatus; a fire extinguishment controlling section which decides the sizes of the distributed flames on the basis of the storage data from said storage section; a nozzle assembly including the nozzle and device for controlling the direction of the nozzle in response to a control from the fire extinguishment controlling section.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3588893 (1971-06-01), McCloskey
patent: 4023146 (1977-05-01), Carroll
patent: 4609048 (1986-09-01), Tasaki et al.
Akiba Kouji
Aria Yoshio
Kitajima Akira
Basinger Sherman D.
Hochiki Corp.
Salmon Paul E.
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