Device for protection against fire
OwnerFrancis N. Chamberlaininventor
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Abstract
A shield for protection against fire consists of a flexible sheet of heat-insulating material having a resiliently flexible top stiffener secured across its top. Behind the sheet and secured to the top stiffener are two laterally spaced top handles arranged so one can be grasped by a hand, the other engaged and supported by the raised and more or less horizontal forearm, to hold the sheet, which has a window of transparent heat-resistant material, fully extended in front of the user. The sheet has a further transverse resiliently flexible stiffener across its middle part, and also a single central lower handle, and it may be weighted at its bottom.
Claims10
A shield for protection against fire, comprising:
- a pliable curtain of heat-insulating material having front and rear faces;
- a resilently flexible top stiffener member secured to and extending along an upper edge of said curtain for holding said curtain transversely extended;
- a window of transparent, heat-resistant material in an upper part of the sheet;
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- an upper handle secured at the rear face of said curtain to said top stiffener member;
- said shield being rollable into a compact roll for storage, and being vertically extendible for protection against fire by lifting said handle such that said curtain is suspended from and transversely extended by said top stiffener member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.