Static electricity dissipator
AssigneeLightning Master Corporation
InventorsCharlton Sadler, Bruce Kaiser
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Abstract
An electrical dissipator comprising a multiplicity of fine electrically conductive wires having their proximate ends fitted into a hole in an electrically conductive base member and secured therein by crimping to securely grip the ends of the wires. One embodiment of the base member comprises a hollow tube allowing connection over an existing traditional lightning rod. In another embodiment, the base member comprises a solid rod or hollow tube having its proximal end threaded to allow the traditional lightning rod to be unthreaded from its threaded base and replaced. In a third embodiment, the base member comprises an apertured flange for bolting to the structure to be protected from lightning.
Claims10
An electrostatic dissipator for dissipating electrical charge from a structure to the atmosphere to minimize lightning strikes, comprising in combination:
- an electrically conductive base member including an upper end and a lower end;
- means for mounting said lower end of said base member relative to the structure to be protected;
- said upper end of said base member comprising an upwardly opened hole;
- a plurality of long fine electrically conductive metal, untwisted wires each having a proximal end and a terminal end, the proximal ends of which are bunched together to be in electrical connection with sand fitted into said hole;
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- means for electrically and mechanically connecting said proximal ends of said wires positioned in said hole allowing said wires to emanate upwardly therefrom in a uniform, mushroom-shaped manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.