Smoke alarm mounting and dismounting system and method
AssigneeHoly Smoke Alarms Pty Ltd
InventorDarin Vincent Leatherby
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Abstract
A method of mounting and dismounting a smoke alarm from a supporting element mounted to an overhead surface; said method including the steps of, inserting an elongate implement into an opening provided in a body of the smoke alarm, and applying a force via the elongate implement so as to detach the body of the smoke alarm from the supporting element, and wherein the elongate implement is applied by a user standing on a floor surface below the overhead surface.
Claims13
A method of mounting and dismounting a smoke alarm, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. providing a smoke alarm body adapted for detachable attachment to a supporting element mountable to an overhead surface, the smoke alarm body providing an opening;
- b. inserting an elongate implement into the opening;
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- c. applying a low air pressure force to the opening via the elongate implement, the low air pressure force acting to secure the smoke alarm body to the elongate implement.
A smoke alarm mountable to an overhead surface, the smoke alarm comprising (i) a supporting element mountable to the overhead surface and (ii) an alarm body adapted for detachable attachment to the supporting element, the alarm body including an opening adapted to receive an end of an elongate implement, the alarm body operatively adapted to be secured to the elongate implement upon the application by the implement of a low air pressure force to the opening, in use securing the alarm body to the elongate element assisting mounting or dismounting of the alarm body from the supporting element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.