Fire-extinguishing device and valve unit therefor

US6119785A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fagus-Grecon Greten Gmbh & Co. Kg · DE

Inventors

• Wulf Reise · Konstanz, DE
• Wilfried Henze · Magdeburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 15, 1998
• Grant date: Sep 19, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 15, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A62C35/68
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a fire-extinguishing device and a valve block for a fire-extinguishing device. In order to create a fire-extinguishing device which has a short reaction time up to the quenching of sparks, there is provided, in a fire-extinguishing device which has an extinguishant pipe (14) which leads from an extinguishant reservoir to at least one quenching site and there terminates in an extinguishant outlet nozzle (16), an extinguishant container (20) in the region of the extinguishant outlet nozzle (16). From the container extinguishant flows into the extinguishant pipe upon a pressure drop in the extinguishant pipe (14). A valve block proposed according to the invention for a fire-extinguishing device facilitates the fitting of such an extinguishant container.