Compressed air foam system for fire retardance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8286719
APP PUB NO 20100236799A1
SERIAL NO

12405380

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An apparatus for protecting a structure from fire includes a foam generation system by mixing compressed air, water from a pump and a foaming agent from a metered supply together with a series of motor driven nozzles and a control device which is programable to provide a program of operation to control the motors of the nozzles so as to pre-determine a pattern by which a building is repeatedly covered by a layer of the foam. The control device can include plurality of different programs of operation of the nozzles with different times for different fire conditions. A remote control allows the apparatus to be activated from a safe remote location. An arrangement is provided to automatically start the foam generation system including an internal combustion engine.

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  • TUFFBUILT PRODUCTS INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Vetesnik, Jan Winnipeg, CA 30 325

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