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US 5,688,136 AGranted
Fire fighting trainer
AssigneeSymtron Systems, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Rogers, Dominick Musto, Steven Luftig, David Joynt
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Abstract
A fire fighting trainer is provided for use in training fire fighters and passenger rescuers during aircraft simulated cabin fires and simulated landing gear fires and during simulated oil spill module fires. The trainer includes a mockup aircraft, a mockup fuel spill module, a liquid fuel and vapor fuel supply system, and a fire control system. A method of training fire fighters and passenger rescuers is also provided.
Claims8
In a fire fighting trainer comprising:
- a liquid fuel supply system;
- a mockup aircraft containing fireplaces for simulating aircraft fires in the aircraft;
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- a fire control system, the improvement which comprises a liquid fuel spill module for simulating a fuel spill fire adjacent to the aircraft, a fuel converter for converting some of the liquid fuel to vapor fuel and conduit means for supplying the liquid fuel to the liquid fuel spill module and conduit means for supplying the vapor fuel to the fireplaces.
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A method of training fire fighters, including the steps of:
- mounting a portable mockup aircraft and a portable mockup fuel spill module on the ground;
- supplying liquid propane from a tank of liquid propane fuel;
- converting a portion of the liquid propane to vapor propane;
- supplying the propane vapor to a burner control at the aircraft;
- supplying a portion of propane liquid to a burner control at the fuel spill module;
- regulating propane vapor flow at the aircraft burner control to simulate the selected fire sequence;
- regulating propane liquid flow at the module burner control to simulate the selected fire sequence;
- receiving sensor signals caused by the aircraft fires to indicate the selected fire sequence;
- receiving sensor signals caused by the module fires to indicate the selected fire sequence;
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- exposing fire fighters to the selected fires sequences to permit extinguishing such fires.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.