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Self-contained automatic fire extinguisher

  • US 8,607,888 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2008
  • Issued: 12/17/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An article of manufacture that is a self contained automatic fire extinguishing device, comprising:

  • a primary tank containing a fire extinguishing agent and a pressurized gas canister;

    an extendable mounting bracket, having a lateral bracket, a first rigid arm and a second rigid arm, said lateral bracket being rigidly attached to said primary tank, and said rigid arms being rotatably attached said lateral bracket on opposite ends of said lateral bracket;

    a lower tank, containing said fire extinguishing agent and having a cross-section substantially equal in shape and size to a cross-section of said primary tank, said lower tank being hangingly connected to, beneath, and in fluid connection with, said primary tank, by a flexible pressurized joint;

    an extendable discharge nozzle, mounted on said primary tank and having an axis of flow orientated substantially horizontally when said self contained automatic fire extinguishing device is installed; and

    a flexible siphon tube, attached at one end to said extendable discharge nozzle, and extending down through said flexible pressurized joint to said lower tank.

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