Emergency audible instruction apparatus for a fire extinguisher

• US 4,303,395 A
• Filed: 06/11/1979
• Issued: 12/01/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James C. Bower
• Original Assignee: James C. Bower
• Inventors: Bower, James C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Faber, Alan
• Application Number:
  US06/047,037
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: 360/12, 179/100.1 C, 179/100.1 PS, 179/100.1 R, 35/8 A, 169/51, 169/61, 340/568, 340/692, 369/19, 369/20, 369/69, 434/226
• US Class Current: 434/226
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission

Abstract

A improvement in a combination for responding to an emergency, characterized by audible instruction means for instructing a participant in handling the emergency and an activator for activating the instruction means to give particular audible instructions to the participant handling the particular emergency so that the participant can use both hands and eyes in treating the emergency rather than having to read instructions or the like. In specific aspects, multiple instructions may be included with a selector for selecting a particular emergency; or a particular type of emergency such as instruction and precautions for a particular type of fire extinguisher may be implaced at a particular location for a particular type fire extinguisher or the like.

Claims

1. An improved safety combination adapted to facilitate fighting a fire by an operator, comprising:

a. a fire extinguisher at a fire extinguisher station;

b. support supporting said fire extinguisher at said fire extinguisher station such that said fire extinguisher can be removed from said support by the operator;

c. a speaker adapted to emit audible verbal signals that are perceptible by the operator operating said fire extinguisher;

said speaker being disposed at said first station;

d. recorded instructions recorded in a first form and transduceable into audible verbal signals by an instruction play means and said speakers;

e. instruction play means for transducing said instructions from said first form into a form that, in combination with said speaker will convert said first form into audible verbal signals for said operator;

said instruction play means being connected with said recorded instructions and with said speaker; and

f. switch means for energizing said instruction play means when said fire extinguisher is lifted from said support;

said switch means being connected with said instruction play means and responsive to said fire extinguisher on said support;

such that audible verbal signals are supplied to the operator operating said fire extinguisher to give instructions and simultaneously allow full free use of the operators hands for fighting a fire.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said instructions that are recorded and finally produce said audible verbal signals instruct said operator as to the type of fire on which said fire extinguisher is to be used and as to which it must not be used, and as to the proper use of the fire extinguisher to fight said fire.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said speaker emits said audible verbal signals responsive to electrical signals;

said instruction play means transduces said first form of said recorded instruction into electrical signals for said speaker to emit said audible verbal signals.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein said recorded instructions comprises tape in a cassette;

said instruction play means comprises a cassette recorder for playing said cassette and converting the signals on said cassette tape to electrical signals for said speaker.