Abstract: A method of fire fighting wherein open ended nozzle units are mounted in high rise or like building walls so that fluid conduits may be coupled from outside the room or space containing a fire within the building. This provides a special building structure wherein opposite ends of nozzle units may be accessible from different rooms, and the nozzle units are tubular bodies containing internally formed insert tubes defining the fluid flow pattern.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing apparatus delivering an extinguishing agent through a barrier surrounding a structure into the interior thereof. The apparatus includes an elongated tubular nozzle body which has a pointed penetrating head carried on one end of the tubular body. A source of extinguishing agent is coupled to the opposite end of the tubular body and is fed therethrough and passes through passages adjacent the head for delivering the extinguishing agent to the interior of the structure. A slidable mass is carried on the tubular body on a remote end of the tubular body from the penetrating head. By manipulating the slidable mass and bringing such in contact with an abutment the force imparted to the tubular body causes the head to penetrate the structure.

Abstract: A system adapted for fighting a fire within areas of a ship that normally are inaccessible to conventional fire fighting equipment. The system includes a fluid carrying conduit supported on the underside of a hatch cover, connector structure for connecting a source of fluid to the conduit and a plurality of openings located along the conduit providing a field of coverage for the fluid which is discharged. The system is adapted both for automatic and manual operation, it may be used for fighting fires with water, fluids, gases and foams, and it may be used to sample ambient conditions within the cargo storing area. The system has particular applicability in use with containerships, but also may be used with vessels of all types which are equipped with hatch covers.

Abstract: A rescue vehicle or safety apparatus is disclosed which in its most basic form includes a self-propelled platform adapted to be suspended from a vertically directed line in turn connected to a movable or stationary point thereabove. So attached, the platform may be accurately maneuvered under its own power from a position somewhat laterally removed from the locus of an emergency such as a fire in a tall building or the like, to a position immediately adjacent the window or other opening in the building such that persons trapped therein may be moved directly into the rescue vehicle and accordingly be removed to safety. The vehicle may also be used for fire fighting and combating other emergency situations such as grain elevator explosions, oil tanker and other fires at sea, etc. and would normally be transported and directed in its use position by means of a helicopter, although not limited thereto.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for instantaneous response, evacuation and control of a fire in a conventional multi-story building, having substantial side wall portions formed of glass or brick. A suspendable and/or connectable personnel platform is provided with telescoping fire suppressant nozzles adapted for coupling to a fire suppressant supply system constructed in the corners and/or side walls of a building. A computerized control network facilitates fire detection and remote actuation of the system and positioning of the platform at the necessary building level. The platform includes a cage for the protection of the evacuees of the particular floor of the building being serviced. In addition, the platform includes a horizontal supply line which couples to the building fire suppressant supply system for permitting the telescoping nozzles to spray the subject combustion.

Abstract: A penetrator/nozzle arrangement, particularly for enabling fighting of fires in aircraft and other difficult access target units, in which the penetrator/nozzle arrangement has a telescopic nozzle formed by a spray nozzle tube section telescopically slidable on a concentric feed tube, with a cylindrical cutter mounted for sliding movement about the nozzle and toward a target unit. A cartridge is fired to drive the cutter toward the forward spray end of the nozzle, thereby cutting the effective skin of a target and enabling the nozzle to be moved therethrough with its forward spray discharge end extending into the target interior zone for passage of fluid, powder or other desired agent through the nozzle into the target interior.

Abstract: A sprinkler head for use in residential areas, or the like, requiring the maintenance of aesthetic appearance, including a bayonet impacted by a spring-biased power sleeve for penetrating an interior ceiling or wall. The power sleeve is restrained in the ready position by a wire cable having a rupturable portion separable by heat or other means controlled by a remote device for sensing an incendiary condition in the space to be fire-protected on the opposite side of the ceiling or wall from the sprinkler head.

Abstract: A fire suppression access port is provided in the various plates, doors or covers of a vehicle for ready application of a fire suppressant to areas of the vehicle behind said plates, doors or covers where a fire might erupt. The access port includes a distortable diaphram through which a fire extinguisher nozzle can penetrate together with a tapered throat for guiding the nozzle into a somewhat sealed condition in the port and a nozzle assembly with a spring loaded cap, which nozzle assembly is directed toward the location where a fire is most likely to start.