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 Title: |
US3715843:
FIRE PROTECTION APPARATUS FOR A BUILDING
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Ballinger, Virgil R.; Los Angeles, CA 90018
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1973-02-13
/ 1971-08-23
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| Application Number: |
US1971000174026
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
E04B 1/94;
E04H 15/02;
E04H 15/18;
E04H 15/54;
Core:
E04H 15/00;
E04H 15/32;
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IPC-7:
E04B 1/34;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
052/003;
052/DIG.012;
D25/022;
Original:
052/003;
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| Field of Search: |
052/3;4
150/052
109/026,1 S
135/1 R
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| Priority Number: |
| 1971-08-23 |
US1971000174026 |
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| Abstract: |
Fire-resistant apparatus for covering and enclosing a building for protecting it from airborne firebrands, or the like, produced by a high-velocity fire storm. The enclosing apparatus includes flexible, thin-sheet cover means of fire-resistant or fire-retardant material which is usually in the form of several panel portions adapted to be edge-joined by junction means to provide a composite cover of a desired size and shape for protecting a particular building and which is then pulled into place covering the building with edges of the cover means being firmly fastened together and effectively sealed substantially completely around the building to adjacent ground surface portions by edge-fastening means so that the high-velocity winds produced by a fire storm will be substantially excluded and so that the fire-retardant character of the cover means will prevent the building from catching fire as a result of burning embers or firebrands being blown by the approaching fire storm onto the building (of course, with the protective fire-retardant cover interposed therebetween). The multi-panel cover means and the edge-fastening means and auxiliary fastening strap means provided for attachment thereof are so constructed as to be capable of being very quickly and relatively easily assembled and mounted in protective relationship over a building by a small crew of men when the building is threatened by an approaching fire storm.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Murtagh, John E.;
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None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. Fire protection apparatus for a building, comprising: flexible, thin-sheet, protective cover means of fire-retardant material having fasten-down edge portions and intervening area-covering, building-enclosing panel portions adapted to be placed over and in enclosing relationship with respect to a building which is to be protected from a high-velocity fire, with said area-covering, building-enclosing panel portions enveloping, protecting, and exteriorly covering and isolating substantially the entire surface of such a building from any exterior firebrands, flaming material, or burning embers which may come into contact therewith from an approaching high-velocity fire, and with said fasten-down edge portions being effectively provided with edge fastening and edge engagement means and being adapted to be effectively fastened down and sealed by same with respect to adjacent ground surface areas around edge portions of such a building, said panel portions of said protective cover means being provided with multiple spaced first attachment means; said edge fastening means being provided with multiple spaced second attachment means; and multiple auxiliary fastening strap means, each having first connection means at one end thereof cooperable for connection to any corresponding one of said multiple spaced first attachment means provided at said multiple locations of said panel portions of said protective cover means and having second connection means of a controllably adjustable, longitudinal spacing from said first connection means cooperable for taut connection to any corresponding one of said multiple spaced second attachment means carried by corresponding ones of said edge fastening means.
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| Forward References: |
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