Installation for fighting fire

• US 5,996,699 A
• Filed: 04/03/1998
• Issued: 12/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marioff Corporation Oy (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Goran Sundholm
• Inventors: Sundholm, Goran
• Primary Examiner(s): Weldon, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): EVANS, ROBIN OCTAVIA
• Application Number:
  US09/051,222
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 239/342, 239/344, 239/372, 169/5, 169/9, 169/16, 169/71, 169/85, 169/6
• US Class Current: 169/9
• CPC Class Codes: A62C 35/023 the extinguishing material being expelled by compressed gas, taken from storage tanks, or by generating a pressure gas for foam generation A62C5/02

Abstract

An installation for fighting fire, having a hydraulic accumulator which has at least one pressure container with a space for extinguishing liquid and a space for propellant gas, a rising tube arranged in the pressure container and provided with a side opening and, at the lower part of the pressure container, a feed opening for feeding extinguishing liquid into the rising tube and further to at least one nozzle. In order to obtain an extremely small drop size of the extinguishing liquid at the final stage of the emptying of the pressure container and in order to manage with a very small amount of extinguishing liquid, the rising tube has a throttle in an area below the uppermost side opening.

Claims

1. Installation for fighting fire, comprising a hydraulic accumulator (1'"'"') which comprises at least one pressure container (2'"'"') defining a lower space (5'"'"') for extinguishing liquid and an upper space (17'"'"') for propellant gas, and a rising tube (7'"'"') positioned in the pressure container, said rising tube including a feed opening (16'"'"') for feeding extinguishing liquid into the rising tube and upwardly therein to at least one nozzle (10'"'"' to 12'"'"'), first and second vertically spaced apart side openings above the feed opening, and a throttle therein below at least one of said first and second side openings.

2. Installation according to claim 1, including gas supply means connected to the pressure container (2'"'"') to provide the pressure container (2'"'"') with propellant gas.

3. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the throttle is located below both of said first and second side openings.

4. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the throttle is formed by a constriction in the rising tube (7'"'"'), whereby the constriction forms an aperture (18'"'"') with a diameter of 0.2 to 2 mm in the rising tube.

5. Installation according to claim 4, wherein the aperture (18'"'"') has a diameter of 0.3 to 2 mm.

6. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the rising tube (7'"'"') has three side openings (13'"'"' to 15'"'"') which have been placed at a distance from one another in the longitudinal direction of the rising tube so that the lower space (5'"'"') for extinguishing liquid of the pressure container (2'"'"') in the area between said side openings is divided into sections (II, III) lacking side openings.

7. Installation according to claim 6, wherein the distances between the three side openings (13'"'"' to 15'"'"') are essentially of the same length.

8. Installation according to claim 6, wherein the diameter of the side openings (13'"'"' to 15'"'"') is 0.5 to 5 mm.

9. Installation according to claim 8, wherein the diameter of the side openings (13'"'"' to 15'"'"') is 1 to 3 mm.

10. Installation according to claim 9, wherein rising tube (7'"'"') has, at the lower part, at a distance from the feed opening (16'"'"') of the rising tube, at least one side opening (15'"'"') the diameter of which is larger than the diameter of side openings (13'"'"', 14'"'"') located higher up in the rising tube.

11. Installation according to claim 2, wherein the gas supply means is a pressure bottle (4'"'"') contains incombustible gas.

12. Installation according to claim 11, wherein the pressure bottle contains nitrogen charged to a pressure of from 30 to 300 bar.

18. Apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said rising tube has an internal diameter of between 8 and 15 mm and said constriction has a diameter of between 0.2 and 4 mm.

19. Apparatus according to claim 18, wherein said constriction has a diameter of between 0.3 and 2 mm.

13. Apparatus for fighting fire comprising:

a pressure container which defines a lower space for containing extinguishing liquid and an upper space for propellant gas,

a pressure bottle containing incombustible gas connected to said pressure container, and

a rising tube positioned in the pressure container, said rising tube including a feed opening (16'"'"') for feeding extinguishing liquid into the rising tube and upwardly therein to at least one nozzle (10'"'"' to 12'"'"'), first and second vertically spaced apart side openings above the feed opening, and a throttle therein below at least one of said first and second side openings.

14. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said throttle is located below both of said first and second side openings.

15. Apparatus according to claim 13, including a third side opening vertically spaced from said first and second side openings.

16. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said throttle is located below all of said first, second and third side openings.

17. Apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said throttle is formed by a construction in said rising tube.