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US 2022/0219030 A1Published application
Fire suppression apparatus
OwnerMatthew Malewski, Neil Crowtherinventors
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A fire suppression apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is of a type used particularly in fire suppression systems of vehicles and comprises a container in the form of a pressure cylinder having a discharge valve and, inside the cylinder, a tubular discharge conduit. The cylinder is shown in its operable configuration, arranged on its side, and the discharge tube includes a first portion, close to the valve, that extends substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the cylinder, and in this example is substantially central with respect to the cylinder. The tube also includes a second portion that extends downwardly from the substantially axial first portion towards the lowest part of the sidewall of the cylinder and a third portion that is again substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis of the cylinder, but close to the sidewall of the cylinder, at an insert portion.
A fire suppression apparatus comprising a container for containing a discharge gas under pressure and a fire suppressant agent, a discharge valve and a discharge conduit for conveying gas and agent to the valve in use, wherein the apparatus comprises an agent disturbing portion which is arranged in use to promote the entrainment of agent in the flow of discharge gas during a discharge operation.
A method of improving the discharge efficiency of an agent-based fire suppression apparatus, the method comprising disturbing the agent in a cylinder of the suppression apparatus so that the agent becomes entrained in a discharge gas during a discharge operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.