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US 6,318,473 B1Granted
Expansive fire extinguishing system
OwnerTalmadge O. Bartley, Louise G. Bartley +1inventors
InventorsTalmadge O. Bartley, Louise G. Bartley, G. Katye Bartley
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Abstract
An expansive fire extinguishing system for combating forest and brush fires at safe distances. The expansive fire extinguishing system includes a sealed and explodable container capable of being moved airborne to distant fires; and also includes fire extinguishing agents disposed in the sealed and explodable container; and further includes a manner of opening the sealed and explodable container to release the fire extinguishing agents disposed inside thereof.
Claims1
An expansive fire extinguishing system comprising:
- a sealed and explodable container capable of being moved airborne to distant fires, said sealed and explodable container including a drum having a side wall with reinforced ribs being spaced apart and encircling said side wall, said drum also having an end wall with an opening therein, said opening being closeable with a sealed pressure cap fire extinguishing agents disposed in said sealed and explodable container, said fire extinguishing agents including a mixture of licorice provided in a sticky form, sodium bicarbonate, and aluminum sulfate, said fire extinguishing agents further including carbon tetrachloride, and carbon dioxide;
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- a means of opening said sealed and explodable container to release said fire extinguishing agents disposed inside thereof, said means for opening said sealed and explodable container being securely attached to an exterior wall of said container, said means of opening said sealed and explodable container including an explosive securely attached to said sealed and explodable container, said means for opening said sealed and explodable container further including a heat activated sensor being securely attached to an exterior wall of said container and adapted to explode upon sensing extreme heat to rupture the container to disperse the fire extinguishing agents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.