Extinguisher, fire
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- OBJECT TYPE
- halon
- DATE
- 1990–1992
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2007.0802.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Kidde, Walter & Co. Inc.
- MODEL
- Halon 1301
- LOCATION
- Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 2615107
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- An object made of steel and possibly brass elements/Un objet fait avec du matériel en acier ainsi que possiblement en laiton.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 39.0 cm
- Width
- 40.0 cm
- Height
- 102.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Chemistry
- Category
- Extinguishers
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Kidde
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Jersey
- City
- Bloomfield
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Ca. 1990-2007 in the Rare Books Room
- Canada
-
This artefact is an extinguisher such as the one used to protect the books and other materials in the Rare Book Room (RBR) of the Library & Information Services of the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Their location offers a storage tank for the Halon Fire suppression System. It was installed ca. 1990 and removed in the summer of 2007 prior to such systems being made illegal due to the impact of the upper atmospheric ozone. Cet extincteur est comme celui utiliser pour protéger les livres rares et d'autres matériels au Bibliothèque et Services Informatiques du Musée de la Science et Technologie. Installé dans la (RBR) Rare Book Room autour de 1990, il a été enlevé en 2007 quand l'utilisation de ce genre de système a été banni grâce à leur destruction de l'ozone. Le musée avait un réservoir de stockage à Halon pour le système de suppression de feu. - Function
-
This extinguisher functioned by being pressurized to force the halon through pipes to the nozzles on the ceiling of the area to be protected. It uses its chemicals to blanket an area and remove oxygen thereby suffocating a fire. Cet extincteur fonctionne en utilisant une force sous pression pour pousser de l’Halon au travers des tuyaux a un pistolet sur le plafond. L’extincteur utilise un produit chimique pour couvrir un endroit et enlever l’oxygène pour s’assurer d’étouffer un feu. - Technical
-
From the 1960s-1970s halon gas was used to protect computer installations in the case of fire. Unlike traditional water fire suppression systems, halon did not damage the electronics or the computers and in the case of libraries with rare books avoided costly water damage. Such systems worked by absorbing all of the oxygen from the air. Being heavier than air, the halon migrated towards the floor and people therefore had to be aware that they needed to evacuate the area immediately that a fire alarm and/or the halon system went off. They had only between 20-30 seconds to evacuate before the oxygen was deleted. Pendant les 1960s et 1970 le gaz a halon étais utilisé pour protéger les ordinateurs, car l'halon n'endommageais pas les systèmes électroniques. Il était vu comme optimale pour les bibliothèques à livres rare, car il ne les endommageait pas en utilisant de l'eau. Ces systèmes fonctionnaient en absorbant toute l'oxygène dans l'air. L'halon est plus pesant que l'air et donc va tomber vers le sol. Après 20 a 30 secondes l'oxygène devenait supprimer de la salle et donc les personnes qui travaillaient sur lieu avaient peu de temps pour évacuer. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Markings in the following areas read in part/Les marques sur l'extincteur lis en part:" On the head of the extinguisher/Sur la tête de l’extincteur:"KIDDE/ HALON 1301/ P/N 89702/ 24 VIC/ XHARGED WITH 96 LBS/ EMPTY WEIGHT 101 LBS/ CYLINDER AND VALVE/ WITH ANTI-RECOIL PLUG/ FULL WGT 198 LBS/ CLINDER VALVE ANTI-/ RECOIL PLUG, HALON/ 1301 CHARGE N./ SUPER PRESSURIZATION, 282 560", On the hanging tag/Sur l'étiquette de l'extincteur: "WARNING/ 1. CONTROL HEAD MUST/ BE IN 'SET' POSITION/ BEFORE ATTACHING TO/ CYLINDER VALVE./ 2. REMOVE CONTROL HEAD/ BEFORE SERVICING/ SYSTEM./ WALTER KIDDE/ DIVISION OF KIDDE. INC,/ BELLEVILLE, NEW JERSEY/ 07109, U.S.A./261507", On the sticker/Sur l'autocollant: "NMSTC-SMNST/ 0-60-313-01".
- Missing
- None apparent/L'objet a toute ces pièces.
- Finish
- A red painted steel fire extinguisher with markings in its body. It has a glass lens over a pressure gauge and a metal control head nozzle about it that is possibly brass. A threaded metal adapter exits that back of the extinguisher to fasten a hose to it. Un extincteur en acier peinturé rouge qui a des marques du fabricateur sur son corps. Il y a une lentille en verre qui recouvre un indicateur de pression et une tête de contrôle en métal qui est possiblement fait en laiton. Un adaptateur de boyau à incendie est fileté et ressort du dos de l'extincteur pour pouvoir accepter un tuyau.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Kidde, Walter & Co. Inc., Extinguisher, fire, between 1990–1992, Artifact no. 2007.0802, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2007.0802.001/
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