US649612A - Pyrotechnic alarm. - Google Patents

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1o alarm, and in such JAMES (L MOOIE,

SYLVNA, ASSGNOP, OF

@NPL Oi? JNE PEACE.

SPECFCATIOI- forming par?. o f Le-turs '.*Pazzeu' No. $629,912, tinted, may 15, 11909 Be it known thai zen of iii@ United f of Philadelphia, im the phia and Siate of .Pennsy ed certain new and imei Pyroteciinio Alarms, is a, speciiicziiiu.

My invention has reiavtion to si pyrfiieahnic conneciion it remt more partieuiariy to the construe-ihm :mii a meuf, or snail an aiarm.

The principal fsbjeci ci my invention in provide pyrotichni i am soW-i-fmning Grail locaeii on the exterior of building; and in ciudad in in sie-Girls cirerin which when completed within *rile house :nammiiy by means of suitable sivi'rines or pl. h butbons or mitomaiicaiiy by means ai" Suita'be iiiermostats shaii canse said torch to ignite to constitute ein fila-rui Ur signiii.

My invention med in generalterr- 1S5 conssts of a pyrotec tui@ alarm constructed and arranged in substirntiaiiy the mamie-r 'hereinafter described. mii claims' Tim nature and scope of iiiyiuvmziou will be more fuiiy uuderso'od from the following deseripion taken in conneeiion with the auf compnying drawiugs forming pari: herssof, in which- Figure l is a .iongiiaudiniii seeiionai 'view of a buiingnpon whisk bib pyroteciinic imm iS ioeated, the Marmi mid preferred eiectricai connections therefor isa-ing ilustra'ie in diagram. Fig. 2 is an euargeii 'mimic-a1 sectional tha pyrc-eabii siow-buifniug torch wim im ma .@swres. Fig. is :i side eievatonai vias?, eiiarged, ai' im i-cr eh; ilimiirsiting si mndiiief ferr. of eonnecing the i im?) i cir w @he buiii. c, emd'Fig. iiS a from aimtimmi View, enlarged, @f om af iiie ermosim's.

Referring t@ he drawings, building iso the rit-of a nd i' the sharm-torch embndy iiivenisicm is adapted to mi appiied. ring G Fig. E, the torch 1 riosisisrs of a mail b', preferably of nui1-cf u1bi1stbie materizii, wherein a slow-burning suitable mate "iii L' is packed. The simil Z/ supports zi cap o waterproof but combinatibig;A

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LDL?, G forming the irminfin of au membri@ culi mail united at iixeir f a by n, wir@ Jr, o xiimtai, idap' m become highly 'iieteii when tim current passes through it.

- maw t@ of batir: the Hallar 0i' fue other pel@ the hamm om@ or nim-e wir@ Eend 'she fm-ions rooreis iii the building. In iieseromrss thi wire i3 di- V'd iuo awo branches '7' (21uiis which are ii inse-' i "iaiii'mi has or push-buttrms 9', (is mail nio-shari: i0, Chf, :irrm'xgement being smh he primair-hatiens or thm-mosmts norm reni; he sommation@ betwen said. brzmrsiies? 1.7 auf? i. @ne iiragicii wim 7 is eoniieciei, y i n, wire il to inarmiiiai i2 :adapte-1i, when i@ ricci.; the v iri5orwirfl6, L l comi termina of the *Lorch u, 190mm@ im Li u roof m "he front of the iiiii1si iiiai1 is if@ sity, when the "icblsvar lf3 iiisuiims die positimlillustrated 1 viii lfiorppie 'l s o @immii, if) i..

pyrotechziia maior az-zpiodri to forca and Lo igii witiznt'n above the tha torch is im fiapfizwmi mi" r @aber horizontal pessima of iii@ buiiiingr, as Fig. 2, tim rniiiy supportm u jmn :i @up d ironia torch e cfr/ele er mail d projecting its bese. The cup i Will receive the sparks from the torch mei prevent the same 'from felling onto ihe reci or ether woodwork ci tire building. hen, however, iuhe torch ie arranged parallel 'to the Welle of 'the building, es in Fig. 3, the cup may be dispensed with and the torch, directly ecurcd'o the spike (i2, 'which is heilt et right angles.

Having thus described alle nature and ci ject of my invention, 'wheti claim es new, emi desire to secure by Letters Patent, isii. A pyretecimic clarin, comprising e shell of noiacombuetibie meteriei, a. eiowbuming maael'iei packed in seid eilei, e cap of een Dusticle materiel suppored on seid ehel, a, pyrotechnc material packed in ccp mail 'resting directly upon the slew-burning mete rial Within the Shell, and e fuse ccreieiirig two metallic strips forming: the terminale of en electric circuit and e Wire uniting @eid strips end adapted ie 'beceme highly heated by the passage of the current, said inse being embedded in the pyrctechnie material of the cap, substantially es and for L'iic purposes tic scribed.

A pyroteciinic alarm., comprising n. heil of non-ccixibustible material, a. slow-burning mail 'viel packed in seid shell, e cap of com'- bueiible maicriai supported on eai shell, a pyroteclmic materiel packed in seid cap and reeiing directly upon the slow-burning materiei within the shell, and e fuse consisting of two metallic stripe forming the terminals of en electric circuit and e wire uniting said stripe and alepted to become highly heated by the passage of the current, said fuse being embedded in the pyrotechnic material ofthe Cep in combination with e series of devices located within the circuit and adapted to be manually operated to complete the circuit through the fuse, and a. 'series of thermostats located in seid. circuit and adapted automatically to complete said circuitindependcnbly o eeid (ievices, substantially as and for the purposes described.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto 'set my Signature in the presence of two subscrib ing' w'meeeceA JAiilllFl (l. MOORE.

Witneeees:

J. WALTER DOUGLAHS, kRICHARD i). MAXWELL.

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