Portable apparatus for generating foam
AssigneeForced Gas Technologies, LLC
InventorDarren Sean Henry
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Abstract
This invention is directed to a portable foaming apparatus for a handheld fire suppression system having a container holding a foaming agent, water and a pressurized gas, a foam generating assembly having a snorkel, a gas re-directional opening defined in the foam generating assembly allowing gas to enter the re-directional opening from the container; a nozzle in fluid communication with the gas re-directional opening and included in the foam generating assembly downstream of the snorkel so that gas entering the re-directional opening is inserted in the foam generating assembly downstream the snorkel; and, an outlet defined in the housing ejecting foam produced from the foaming agent and the gas when a foam nozzle attached to the foam generating assembly is actuated.
Claims17
A portable foaming apparatus for a handheld fire suppression system comprising:
- a container having a container opening and containing a foaming agent and a pressurized gas disposed above said foaming agent;
- a foam generating assembly having a housing removable attached to said container opening and having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a mixing chamber defined by said housing and disposed in the interior of said housing;
- a snorkel attached to said proximal end of said housing and received in said container having a lower end submerged in said foaming agent;
- a snorkel opening defined in said housing allowing foaming agent to be inserted into said mixing chamber at said proximal end of said housing;
- a gas re-directional opening defined in said housing allowing gas to enter said re-directional opening from said container;
- a nozzle in fluid communications with said gas re-directional assembly and disposed in the interior of said mixing chamber downstream of said snorkel opening so that gas entering said re-directional opening is inserted in said mixing chamber under pressure and downstream said snorkel opening wherein said gas is inserted in said mixing chamber at an angle less than 45° relative to said fluid flow;
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- an outlet defined in said housing for ejecting foam produced in said mixing chamber from said foaming agent and said inserted pressurized when a foam nozzle is actuated.
A portable foaming apparatus for a handheld fire suppression system comprising:
- a container containing a foaming agent and a gas under pressure;
- a foam generating assembly attached to said container having;
- a snorkel included in said foam generating assembly received in said container having a lower end submerged in said foaming agent;
- a snorkel opening defined in said housing allowing foaming agent to be inserted into said foam generating assembly from said container;
- a gas re-directional opening included in said foam generating assembly allowing gas to enter said re-directional opening from said container;
- a nozzle in fluid communication with said gas re-directional opening and attached to the interior of said foam generating assembly downstream of said snorkel opening so that gas entering said re-directional opening is inserted in said foam generating assembly under pressure and downstream said snorkel opening wherein said gas is inserted in said mixing chamber at an angle less than 45° relative to said fluid flow;
- and,
- an outlet defined in said foam generating assembly ejecting foam produced from said foaming agent and said pressurized gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.