Flashlamp assembly for providing highly intense audible and visual signals
AssigneeGTE Sylvania Incorporated
InventorsAndre C. Bouchard, Harold H. Hall, Jr., Robert J. Patton, Thomas J. Sentementes
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Abstract
A multilamp flashlamp assembly capable of emitting highly intense audible and visual signals and particularly adapted for alarm situations. The assembly utilizes percussive flashlamps which operate in conjunction with a respective plurality of pyrotechnic devices located about the assembly's transparent housing. Each device provides an audible signal in response to the energy received from the respective lamp when the lamp is fired.
Claims42
A combustible member for use with a flashlamp article including at least one flashlamp unit therein, said flashlamp unit including at least one flashlamp, said combustible member comprising:
- at least one pyrotechnic device including a container, a quantity of pyrotechnic mixture within said container, and sealing means for hermetically sealing said pyrotechnic mixture within said container separately from said flashlamp unit, said pyrotechnic device adapted for being located externally of and in operative relationship to said flashlamp of said flashlamp unit to receive energy therefrom in the form of light and/or heat and provide an audible signal of high intensity in response to receipt of said energy.
A flashlamp article for providing highly intense audible and visual signals when activated by external activation means, said flashlamp article comprising:
- a housing defining a chamber therein and including a base portion and a cover portion, at least part of said cover portion being light-transmittable;
- at least one flashlamp unit including a flashlamp positioned within said chamber of said housing adjacent said light-transmittable part of said cover portion, said flashlamp emitting high intensity light through said light-transmittable part of said cover portion when said flashlamp unit is activated by said external activation means;
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- at least one combustible member located externally of and in operative relationship to said flashlamp unit for receiving energy therefrom in the form of light and/or heat and providing an audible signal of high intensity in response to receipt of said energy, said combustible member being hermetically sealed separately from said flashlamp unit.
Non-rotatable activation means for activating a plurality of flashlamp units located within a flashlamp article, said non-rotatable activation means comprising:
- a casing;
- seating means located at one end of said casing and adapted for having said flashlamp article stationarily positioned thereon;
- an activator member movably oriented within said casing and including a plurality of upstanding engagement members thereon, said activator member moving within said casing and said engagement members passing through said seating means in response to actuation of said activator member by means located externally of said activation means to effect activation of said flashlamp units within said flashlamp article when said article is positioned on said seating means;
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- means for securing said activation means to an external surface.
In combination, a flashlamp assembly for providing highly intense audible and visual signals, said assembly comprising:
- a flashlamp article having a housing defining a chamber therein and including a base portion and a cover portion with at least part of said cover portion being light-transmittable, at least one flashlamp unit including a flashlamp positioned within said chamber of said housing adjacent said light-transmittable part of said cover portion for emitting high intensity light through said light-transmittable part of said cover portion, and at least one combustible member located externally of and in operative relationship to said flashlamp for receiving energy therefrom in the form of light and/or heat and providing an audible signal of high intensity in response to receipt of said energy, said combustible member being hermetically sealed separately from said flashlamp unit;
- and activation means operatively joined to said flashlamp article for activating said flashlamp unit to cause said flashlamp to emit said high intensity light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.