Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread bcasterline
'automatic' is in the definition of system types, and has probably  
been required from the time the head replaced the hole.

sorry forum- i need to simmer down again- i'll try..
Ron, correction; i was waiting with bated breath, not baited.

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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread David deVries
13-2007, Section 23.1.1  Every automatic sprinkler system shall have at
least one automatic water supply.

CMTCert, Fig, 24.1  Remarks:  Date left in service with all control valves
open.

In the very early days of perforated pipe systems, before the invention of
the automatic sprinkler, there were manual systems in the New England mills.

Dave

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 'automatic' is in the definition of system types, and has probably been
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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread Ron Greenman
EWe have automatic sprinkler heads, and we have automatic sprinkler heads ,
and we have automatic sprinkler systems, and we have automatic systems with
open heads (holes), but we also have manual systems with open heads or
simply just holes. I believe the first edition of NFPA 13 came out in 1905
and was actually NFBU (?) 1. I have a handbook from 1914 talking about
assigning dedicated personal to turning on valves. And as I've related we
have manual systems with automatic heads in several buildings in Seattle,
as well as manual exposure protection systems that I doubt any dedicated
person is assigned to operate.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:58 AM, David deVries dave.firet...@gmail.comwrote:

 13-2007, Section 23.1.1  Every automatic sprinkler system shall have at
 least one automatic water supply.

 CMTCert, Fig, 24.1  Remarks:  Date left in service with all control valves
 open.

 In the very early days of perforated pipe systems, before the invention of
 the automatic sprinkler, there were manual systems in the New England
 mills.

 Dave

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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread Todd Williams
There were also seasonal systems that were shut off during cold weather. I 
remember seeing a comment on an old FM document about noting when they are 
turned on and off.


At 09:58 AM 4/30/2012, you wrote:
13-2007, Section 23.1.1  Every automatic sprinkler system shall have at
least one automatic water supply.

CMTCert, Fig, 24.1  Remarks:  Date left in service with all control valves
open.

In the very early days of perforated pipe systems, before the invention of
the automatic sprinkler, there were manual systems in the New England mills.

Dave

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 'automatic' is in the definition of system types, and has probably been
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RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread George Church
In our specialty freezer systems, we have less than 30 seconds to bring the 
four most remote sprinklers up to their operating pressure. Once they catch 
fire, the commodities in a freezer- and the freezer itself, depending on 
integrity of sheathing and interior insulation components, burn quite well. It 
would be tough to expect we'd be able to meet this performance-based design 
criteria with a manual system, BTW we've got trip time on the preaction valve 
down below 4 seconds.

Thom is fine, he routinely calls/emails to check my output. Its still strong.

I'll tell you why I don't trust manual systems. On the eve of 9/11 my wife and 
I were finishing up dinner at about 10 PM when the FA sounded. Now you'd think 
on this particularly day, we'd have the most awesome awareness of death and 
destruction, and maybe it would sink into people's heads that if you understand 
there could be a fire, it might be a good idea TO GET THE HECK OUT OF THE 
BUILDING!!! (or as Roland puts it, RUN LIKE HELL!!!)

Nope, we were the ONLY people to get up and walk out. Further, we were alone, 
from what we could see, in the area surrounding the hotel tower that was atop 
the restaurant. Granted, the resort was about empty since the incoming AFSA 
convention had been cancelled- or was about to be, not many had shown up when 
transportation became difficult-but nobody reacted except us and the 
maintenance dude we saw running one way, walking briskly another way, and when 
we settled down to a plain old walk we returned to our table and finished up, 
shaking our heads. It was tempting to discuss the situation with the other 
diners, but somehow, I refrained from frustrating my spouse and self.  It 
taught me that you can NEVER rely on anyone doing anything when an alarm or 
light or electric shock is presented as a stimulus.  

I might relent and allow a cold-weather valve.maybe. Don't think I've ever 
designed one into a system in 37+ years.

I wonder if any of the fitters screwed up and pointed what had to be an 
obviously pendent hole toward the deck by mistake? That was way before even 
NASFCA.


George L.  Church, Jr., CET  
Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842
877-324-ROWE   570-837-6335 fax
g...@rowesprinkler.com


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Fascinating stuff! The very first sprinkler had a pendent orientation- it was a 
hole in the bottom of a pipe ;). It might be that the value of a simple manual 
system is over-looked these days. (especially freezers where you have what, 3 
or 4 days b4 the combustible even thaws out?)



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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread Douglas Hicks
To hijack part of George's fine hi jack.  I was at my first sprinkler class 
given by NFPA in Seattle.  The fire alarm went off.  Of all the AHJ's, 
contractor's, designer's, engineer's, only 1 or 2 left immediately.  An 
announcement was made from the podium and the rest of us left.  When the all 
clear was sounded, a person who had immediately left went to great detail to 
tell how disappointed he was that the rest of us sat in our chairs like 
fools.  He was right, we were fools.


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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:05 AM
To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org
Subject: RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

In our specialty freezer systems, we have less than 30 seconds to bring the 
four most remote sprinklers up to their operating pressure. Once they catch 
fire, the commodities in a freezer- and the freezer itself, depending on 
integrity of sheathing and interior insulation components, burn quite well. 
It would be tough to expect we'd be able to meet this performance-based 
design criteria with a manual system, BTW we've got trip time on the 
preaction valve down below 4 seconds.


Thom is fine, he routinely calls/emails to check my output. Its still 
strong.


I'll tell you why I don't trust manual systems. On the eve of 9/11 my wife 
and I were finishing up dinner at about 10 PM when the FA sounded. Now you'd 
think on this particularly day, we'd have the most awesome awareness of 
death and destruction, and maybe it would sink into people's heads that if 
you understand there could be a fire, it might be a good idea TO GET THE 
HECK OUT OF THE BUILDING!!! (or as Roland puts it, RUN LIKE HELL!!!)


Nope, we were the ONLY people to get up and walk out. Further, we were 
alone, from what we could see, in the area surrounding the hotel tower that 
was atop the restaurant. Granted, the resort was about empty since the 
incoming AFSA convention had been cancelled- or was about to be, not many 
had shown up when transportation became difficult-but nobody reacted except 
us and the maintenance dude we saw running one way, walking briskly another 
way, and when we settled down to a plain old walk we returned to our table 
and finished up, shaking our heads. It was tempting to discuss the situation 
with the other diners, but somehow, I refrained from frustrating my spouse 
and self.  It taught me that you can NEVER rely on anyone doing anything 
when an alarm or light or electric shock is presented as a stimulus.


I might relent and allow a cold-weather valve.maybe. Don't think I've 
ever designed one into a system in 37+ years.


I wonder if any of the fitters screwed up and pointed what had to be an 
obviously pendent hole toward the deck by mistake? That was way before even 
NASFCA.



George L.  Church, Jr., CET
Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842
877-324-ROWE   570-837-6335 fax
g...@rowesprinkler.com


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To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org
Subject: RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

Fascinating stuff! The very first sprinkler had a pendent orientation- it 
was a hole in the bottom of a pipe ;). It might be that the value of a 
simple manual system is over-looked these days. (especially freezers where 
you have what, 3 or 4 days b4 the combustible even thaws out?)




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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread Ron Greenman
A fire alarm is an opportunity to be free. You can leave, do whatever you
want, and blame the emergency.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Douglas Hicks fire...@eoni.com wrote:

 To hijack part of George's fine hi jack.  I was at my first sprinkler
 class given by NFPA in Seattle.  The fire alarm went off.  Of all the
 AHJ's, contractor's, designer's, engineer's, only 1 or 2 left immediately.
  An announcement was made from the podium and the rest of us left.  When
 the all clear was sounded, a person who had immediately left went to great
 detail to tell how disappointed he was that the rest of us sat in our
 chairs like fools.  He was right, we were fools.

 -Original Message- From: George Church
 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:05 AM
 To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.**org sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org
 Subject: RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

 In our specialty freezer systems, we have less than 30 seconds to bring
 the four most remote sprinklers up to their operating pressure. Once they
 catch fire, the commodities in a freezer- and the freezer itself, depending
 on integrity of sheathing and interior insulation components, burn quite
 well. It would be tough to expect we'd be able to meet this
 performance-based design criteria with a manual system, BTW we've got trip
 time on the preaction valve down below 4 seconds.

 Thom is fine, he routinely calls/emails to check my output. Its still
 strong.

 I'll tell you why I don't trust manual systems. On the eve of 9/11 my wife
 and I were finishing up dinner at about 10 PM when the FA sounded. Now
 you'd think on this particularly day, we'd have the most awesome awareness
 of death and destruction, and maybe it would sink into people's heads that
 if you understand there could be a fire, it might be a good idea TO GET THE
 HECK OUT OF THE BUILDING!!! (or as Roland puts it, RUN LIKE HELL!!!)

 Nope, we were the ONLY people to get up and walk out. Further, we were
 alone, from what we could see, in the area surrounding the hotel tower that
 was atop the restaurant. Granted, the resort was about empty since the
 incoming AFSA convention had been cancelled- or was about to be, not many
 had shown up when transportation became difficult-but nobody reacted except
 us and the maintenance dude we saw running one way, walking briskly another
 way, and when we settled down to a plain old walk we returned to our table
 and finished up, shaking our heads. It was tempting to discuss the
 situation with the other diners, but somehow, I refrained from frustrating
 my spouse and self.  It taught me that you can NEVER rely on anyone doing
 anything when an alarm or light or electric shock is presented as a
 stimulus.

 I might relent and allow a cold-weather valve.maybe. Don't think I've
 ever designed one into a system in 37+ years.

 I wonder if any of the fitters screwed up and pointed what had to be an
 obviously pendent hole toward the deck by mistake? That was way before even
 NASFCA.


 George L.  Church, Jr., CET
 Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
 PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842
 877-324-ROWE   570-837-6335 fax
 g...@rowesprinkler.com


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 Fascinating stuff! The very first sprinkler had a pendent orientation- it
 was a hole in the bottom of a pipe ;). It might be that the value of a
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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-30 Thread Todd - FPDC
I knew there was a reason I liked Ron. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Ron Greenman rongreen...@gmail.com wrote:

 A fire alarm is an opportunity to be free. You can leave, do whatever you
 want, and blame the emergency.
 
 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Douglas Hicks fire...@eoni.com wrote:
 
 To hijack part of George's fine hi jack.  I was at my first sprinkler
 class given by NFPA in Seattle.  The fire alarm went off.  Of all the
 AHJ's, contractor's, designer's, engineer's, only 1 or 2 left immediately.
 An announcement was made from the podium and the rest of us left.  When
 the all clear was sounded, a person who had immediately left went to great
 detail to tell how disappointed he was that the rest of us sat in our
 chairs like fools.  He was right, we were fools.
 
 -Original Message- From: George Church
 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:05 AM
 To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.**org sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org
 Subject: RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard
 
 In our specialty freezer systems, we have less than 30 seconds to bring
 the four most remote sprinklers up to their operating pressure. Once they
 catch fire, the commodities in a freezer- and the freezer itself, depending
 on integrity of sheathing and interior insulation components, burn quite
 well. It would be tough to expect we'd be able to meet this
 performance-based design criteria with a manual system, BTW we've got trip
 time on the preaction valve down below 4 seconds.
 
 Thom is fine, he routinely calls/emails to check my output. Its still
 strong.
 
 I'll tell you why I don't trust manual systems. On the eve of 9/11 my wife
 and I were finishing up dinner at about 10 PM when the FA sounded. Now
 you'd think on this particularly day, we'd have the most awesome awareness
 of death and destruction, and maybe it would sink into people's heads that
 if you understand there could be a fire, it might be a good idea TO GET THE
 HECK OUT OF THE BUILDING!!! (or as Roland puts it, RUN LIKE HELL!!!)
 
 Nope, we were the ONLY people to get up and walk out. Further, we were
 alone, from what we could see, in the area surrounding the hotel tower that
 was atop the restaurant. Granted, the resort was about empty since the
 incoming AFSA convention had been cancelled- or was about to be, not many
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RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-29 Thread bcasterline
has anyone noticed the title of nfpa 13 is NOT 'Standard for the  
Insallation of AUTOMATIC Sprinkler Systems'? any history on this?  
anything in 13 that says automatic is a must? Sorry to diverge even  
further Cecil, from the lesson at hand. Ron, George, Steve, Ken, Thom?  
anyone heard from Thom lately? Chris? Brian? anyone? The perfectly  
valid pain in every designers a$$ John Hoffman for 30 plus years now  
in KCMO?


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RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-29 Thread Todd Williams
A throwback to the time when they had manual or seasonal systems? The handbook 
has automatic in the title. 


At 12:50 PM 4/29/2012, you wrote:
has anyone noticed the title of nfpa 13 is NOT 'Standard for the  
Insallation of AUTOMATIC Sprinkler Systems'? any history on this?  
anything in 13 that says automatic is a must? Sorry to diverge even  
further Cecil, from the lesson at hand. Ron, George, Steve, Ken, Thom?  
anyone heard from Thom lately? Chris? Brian? anyone? The perfectly  
valid pain in every designers a$$ John Hoffman for 30 plus years now  
in KCMO?

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RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-29 Thread bcasterline
i guess. i think it all started in the big mills (whatever those were)  
out east-if there was a fire in the lower 40 someone said 'hey joe, go  
open valve L40E.



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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-29 Thread Ron Greenman
In Seattle the University of Washington used to be north of the city in
what is now the very heart (the Four Seasons Hotel now occupies the
original site). When this became too valuable a property and too small also
the University was moved to a site north and ast of Lake Union. There are
buildings in the U District that have basement only systems with closed
heads and without automatic water supplies. Presumably the fire department
was supposed to hook up to the FDC and supply the water. There are also
buildings in the International District, directly east and adjoining the
original city with the same configuration. There are also older buildings
with a head the size of a potato with 1 1/2 connections that have tits
protruding at angles from the body shot small streams of water while the
body rotates. Most of these have been poached over the years and the
systemsabandoned. There was obviously a time when automatic was not
important. If I decide to care I'll see if I can find when the requirement
for an automatic water supply crept into the code. I don't think there is a
requirement that a system needs to be automatic in operation.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, bcasterl...@fsc-inc.com wrote:

 i guess. i think it all started in the big mills (whatever those were) out
 east-if there was a fire in the lower 40 someone said 'hey joe, go open
 valve L40E.



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Re: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-29 Thread bcasterline

patiently waiting (with baited breath) for you to care Teach


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RE: History Lesson - Spray Sprinklers become the Standard

2012-04-28 Thread Sprinkler Academy - C Bilbo

Given the fact that the 1953 edition refered to the original as spray 
sprinklers (the original being the kind that sent spray up and down), we 
could say that both are spray sprinklers.  We just started using the term spray 
when Mr. Thompson from FM started researching the new style deflector that sent 
all of the spray down.  It was discovered that enough water was sent to the 
deck through evaporation and rising heat that it was not necessary to spray 
water up to the deck.  Using all of the energy to send the water down, allowed 
for better spacing.  Standard Spray also can said to have an attribute 
described as a certain size water droplet (don't have access to my books just 
now.. between x  y microns, perhaps???).  
 
The committee therefore named the new sprinkler style as the Standard Spray 
Sprinkler (and THAT is what the SS is for).  And then renamed the original 
sprinkler to be known as the conventional sprinkler (the industry naturally 
started to use the phrase old style because we are now using a 'new style').  
 
 
SSU = Standard Spray Upright
SSP = Standard Spray Pendent

It should be recognized that the above is my opinion as a member of the NFPA, 
and has not been processed as a formal interpretation in accordance with the 
NFPA Regulations Governing Committee Projects and should therefore not be 
considered, nor relied upon, as the official position of the the NFPA, nor any 
of their technical committees. 

Sincerely,


Cecil Bilbo 
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 Subject: RE: Re: History Lesson - RE: Spray Sprinklers become the Standard
 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:42:19 -0700
 
 
 So the SS is Standard Spray? Or Spray Sprinkler? Was is a straight stream 
 before? What broke the water stream into droplets?
 
 
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