Was that the gunpowder attached to the barrel of water? Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860-535-2080 (ofc) 860-608-4559 (cell) Sent using CloudMagic [https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=ti&cv=6.0.64&pv=8.2] On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]> wrote: On a related note of trivia, I know some one that has a patent for one of the initial fast response sprinklers before they developed into their current configuration. It involved the use of gun powder and for some reason didn’t catch on.
Roland Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org <http://www.firesprinkler.org/> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Larry Keeping <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think what you've got there is a Star sprinkler from the 70's or so, before the development of the first residential sprinklers and the fast response link. > > It was early attempt to make a quick response sprinkler. The linkage was a standard response but the thing beside it is a squib that (as I understand it) is supposed to send an hot electric arc to the link to cause it to melt out/actuate quickly. > > I only every saw them on one installation and I was once told that handling them should be like handling explosives, because an accident with that squib could do some harm. > > Larry Keeping _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
