Smoke detector with dual sensors

• US 4,319,234 A
• Filed: 07/29/1980
• Issued: 03/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Royal K. Rice
• Original Assignee: Royal K. Rice
• Inventors: Rice, Royal K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brigance, Gerald L.
• Application Number:
  US06/173,665
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 340/628, 340/629, 340/630, 340/693, 340/545, 340/546, 340/321
• US Class Current: 340/628
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/10 Actuation by presence of smoke or gases , e.g. automatic alarm devices for analysing flowing fluid materials by the use of optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/113 Constructional details

Abstract

Smoke detector, comprising a housing the length side of which is several times greater than the width side thereof, incorporating a sensor and a power source; a U-shaped bracket having a base mounted turnable on the top of the housing, and downwardly directed arms, one of which carries a second sensor interconnected with the first sensor and the power source, which is rotatable from a position adjacent the width sides of the housing into a position of parallel spaced relationship to the length side thereof, for accommodation of an upper door edge between the space within the sensor carrying arm and the length side of the housing.

Claims

1. In a smoke and fire detector device, including a housing, incorporating a sensor, an electric power source and an alarm signaling box, connected electrically to each other for smoke and fire induced activation of the device, comprising:

(a) carrier means mounted to an exterior portion of the housing.

(b) a second sensor electrically interconnected with the power source, sensor and alarm signaling box, mounted to the carrier means in a spaced relationship to the sensor in the housing, so that, when the carrier means is placed across the top of a door, the two sensors may activate the device in adjacent rooms separated by the door.

2. A device, according to claim 1, wherein the sensors are ionization chambers.

3. A device, according to claim 1, wherein the length of the housing is several times greater than the width thereof.

4. A device, according to claim 3, wherein the carrier means is a U-shaped bracket, having a horizontal base from which two arms extend downwardly, when mounted to the housing.

5. A device, according to claim 4, wherein the second sensor is mounted to and projects outwardly from one of the arms of the bracket, the horizontal part thereof being mounted rotatably on top of the housing, with the arms of the bracket lying adjacent the width surface of the housing, for swiveling into a position of parallel spaced relationship to the length sides thereof.

6. A device, according to claim 4, wherein the second sensor is mounted to and projects outwardly from one of the arms of the bracket, the horizontal base of which has an elongated opening along a center section thereof and is mounted slidably along the upper surface of the housing by means of headed pins extending integrally therefrom and through the elongated opening of the bracket, so that the sensor carrying bracket arm is outwardly slidable into a position for straddling across the edge of a door.

7. A device, according to claim 5, wherein the free arm of the bracket carries a hook for accommodation of a key and/or a colored ribbon.