When a liquid fire extinguisher has a hose, the stream of liquid coming from the hose is called the "hose stream" and can be directed at the base of the flames.
Type of fire it will extinguish, and the capacity of the exinguisher
If you mean "portable fire extinguisher" they cannot be more than 40 pounds and the average is closer to 10 or less.
it means you are reading a fire extinguisher
so that you don't die if your working with fire! i mean really use your head. you'd have to be a blond not to look for a fire extinguisher! (: no offense to all of the blonds out there.
The numbers are the extiguishing capacity, the letters the types of fire it will extinguish.
LETTER- type of fire it will extinguish NUMBER- capacity. Higher the number, the bigger the fire it can extinguish.
Under the US standards for fire extinguisher testing and labeling, the number tells you approximately how many square feet of flammable liquid surface can be covered using the fire extinguisher properly. For example, 40B would mean 40 square feet.
No, not really. A patent issued that year was entitled "Fire Extinguisher", issued to one Thomas J. Martin, but it was related exclusively to a systems of pressurized pipes installed in buildings for operating sprinklers (or for other purposes). Such an invention clearly has no relevance to any "portable fire extinguisher", or any other self-contained fire extinguisher, portable or not.
It means to fornicate with a fire hose.
It means you have a fire extinguisher for a Class B fire (flammable liquids), large enough to extinguish a puddle up to 8 square feet, using a chemical that is not conductive and thus safe for a Class C fire (electrically energized), and that it has been rated under UL or other similar standards.
what does the letter b on a b-1 fire extinguisher mean
Thomas J. Martin. However, US Patent 125,063 issued to Thomas J. Martin, on March 26, 1872, entitled "Fire Extinguisher", has NOTHING to do with a portable fire extinguisher. The portable fire extinguisher had been invented by others many years prior to Martin's invention. What that patent discloses is a way to use pressurized water pipes inside buildings, supplied from pipes in the street, with valves you could open on each floor and use the spray to put out a fire.