Automatic fire alarm and extinguisher device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorFriedrich Hemme
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Abstract
An automatic fire alarm and extinguisher device in the form of a fire protection unit comprising fire alarm means, preferably a smoke alarm and a heat or flame alarm, valve means for controlling an extinguisher fluid, means for controlling the valve means in response to action of the respective alarms, all of which is disposed in a common protective housing, and at least one extinguisher fluid outlet head. The unit may be connected to a central station over a monitored line and where a plurality of outlet heads are employed for respective adjacent zones, the zones, by suitable disposition of the outlet heads, may overlap.
Claims9
In an automatic fire alarm and extinguisher device forming part of a fixed relatively permanent central fire alarm and extinguisher system which includes a central station and a common central supply of extinguisher fluid for a plurality of extinguisher outlet heads operatively connected thereto over fixed piping, the combination of a unitary fire protection unit adapted to monitor a predetermined zone, comprising alarm means operatively connected to the central station by a fire-protected, monitored electric line, a valve, operatively connected by fixed piping to said central fluid supply, and control means operatively connecting said alarm means and said valve for opening said valve upon predetermined operation of said alarm means, a protective housing of a size to operatively contain primarily only said valve and said alarm and control means, and at least one extinguisher outlet head, remote from said housing and said valve, and operatively connected thereto only by fixed piping which extends from said housing to said head.
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