1. A fire extinguisher gas ejector comprising:
a gas cylinder filled with extinguishing gas, sealed with a seal and provided with a mouth part removably attached thereto;
a cylinder holder formed therein with a through hole and a nozzle hole;
a piercing pipe which is slidably mounted onto the cylinder holder,
biased to upwardly move, and provided at one end thereof with a tip part capable of piercing the seal;
a piercing member coupling with the other end of the piercing pipe;
a safety member capable of restraining an operation of the piercing pipe; and
a control valve movably provided in a communicating passage between the through hole and the nozzle hole for selectively blocking the communication passage by moving the control valve.
2. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 1, wherein the through hole has a small-caliber valve hole and the control valve is slidably provided in the valve hole.
3. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 2, wherein the control valve has a periphery on which at least two O-rings are mounted apart from each other, the valve hole is air-tightened with one of the O-rings, before or when the seal is pierced by the piercing pipe, and either one of the O-rings is positioned at an inner opening of the nozzle hole to be able to close the nozzle hole.
4. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 3, wherein the piercing pipe is returned to an original position under pressure of an extinguishing gas jetted from the gas cylinder, and one of the O-rings is positioned at the inner opening of the nozzle hole to be able to close the nozzle hole.
5. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 4, wherein the extinguishing gas jetted from the gas cylinder remains in the through hole after the seal is pierced.
6. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 4, wherein the closed nozzle hole is unclosed with one of the O-rings through the operation of the piercing pipe after the seal is pierced, thereby allowing the extinguishing gas to be jetted from the nozzle hole.
7. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 4, wherein the piercing pipe has a lower part exhibiting a less descending displacement after the seal is pierced than when the seal is pierced.
8. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 1, wherein the safety member is arranged just below the piercing member to be able to be pulled out laterally, and the safety member is formed integrally with a tab that is arranged on the piercing member to be able to be pulled up.
9. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 8, wherein the safety member is formed in a shape of a plate or ring.
10. A fire extinguisher gas ejector comprising:
a gas cylinder filled with extinguishing gas, sealed with a seal and provided with an exposed bottom and a mouth part removably attached thereto;
a cylinder holder formed therein with a through hole and a nozzle hole;
a piercing pipe which is slidably mounted onto the cylinder holder, biased to upwardly move, and provided at one end thereof with a tip part capable of piercing the seal;
a piercing member coupling with the other end of the piercing pipe;
a safety member capable of restraining an operation of the piercing pipe;
and a hammer having a pointed part and attached to the exposed bottom of the cylinder.
11. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 10, wherein the hammer is attached to the gas cylinder after filling with the extinguishing gas.
12. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 10, wherein the hammer comprises a retaining ring attached to the exposed bottom of the gas cylinder and a hammer shaft that has a neck hooked to an inside of the retaining ring and the pointed part protruded outside the retaining ring.
13. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 12, wherein after the retaining ring is attached to the gas cylinder, the retaining ring and the gas cylinder are plated.
14. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 12, wherein the neck of the hammer shaft has an elastic stopper mounted thereon, and the stopper is arranged to engage with an inner opening of the retaining ring.
15. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 10, further comprising an outer shell provided outside the cylinder holder, a seat belt introduction groove provided in a periphery of the outer shell and capable of inserting a seat belt therein, and a cutter arranged to face the seat belt introduction groove.
16. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 15, wherein the seat belt introduction groove is arranged on a side opposite to a side of the nozzle hole.
17. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 15, wherein the cutter is provided therein with a seat belt releasing part.
18. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 17, wherein the seat belt releasing part is integrally formed with the outer shell.
19. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 17, wherein the seat belt releasing part has a substantially inverted triangular cross-section taken along a direction of introducing the seat belt in the seat belt introduction groove.
20. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 17, wherein the seat belt releasing part is provided in a vicinity of a rear of the cutter and has a distal end insertable in a cut part of the seat belt, and releasing surfaces formed on opposite sides thereof to continue with the distal end for spreading and moving the cut part of the seat belt.
21. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 15, wherein the outer shell is provided on a lower periphery thereof with curved concaved parts disposed apart from an upper periphery of the gas cylinder.
22. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 21, wherein the curved concave parts are disposed on front and back sides of the lower periphery of the outer shell and have a plurality of concavo-convex parts.
23. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 21, further comprising a piercing device loaded with the gas cylinder, a storing case accommodated in a door pocket of a car for storing the piercing device, a strap having opposite ends thereof attached to a periphery of the storing case, a middle part thereof provided with a stopper that is detachably attached to an engaging part buried in an outer surface of the door pocket, and a leading end thereof stuck out to face a driver side.
24. A fire extinguisher gas ejector according to claim 21, further comprising a piercing device loaded with the gas cylinder and a protective case installed at an appropriate place in a car for storing the piercing device and formed with upper and lower opening facing in opposite directions, wherein the seat belt introduction groove and piercing member emerge at the upper opening, whereas a periphery of the gas cylinder emerges at the lower opening.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An arrangement comprising:
at least one shaped block for positioning andor holding a plurality of line sections of one or more electric lines along a drive way of a vehicle, wherein the shaped block comprises a plurality of recesses andor projections, wherein edges of the recesses andor the projections each delimit a space for the line sections into which one of the line sections can be introduced, so that said line section extends through the space in a longitudinal direction of the space, and wherein the longitudinal directions of the spaces delimited by the edges of the recesses andor by the projections extend essentially mutually parallel in a common plane, and
the line sections which extend through the spaces,
wherein at least part of the line sections are formed by a continuous electric line so that first line sections extending through the spaces in a transverse direction relative to the drive way of the vehicle are mutually connected via second line sections of the electric line extending along the drive way of the vehicle, and
wherein the second line sections extend alternately at opposing sides of the shaped block, so that the electric line follows a meandering path.
2. The arrangement according to claim 1, the at least one shaped block further comprising an end surface for facing in a direction of travel of the vehicle, wherein the end surface comprises a central region and wherein the end surface when viewed from above\u2014retreatingly extends on both sides of the central region, so that a further shaped block having a plane or retreatingly extending end surface may abut on the end surface oriented in different directions.
3. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the recesses extend with their longitudinal directions substantially mutually parallel at an upper surface of the shaped block.
4. The arrangement according to claim 1, the at least one shaped block further comprising at least two of the shaped blocks, wherein the at least two shaped blocks are arranged behind one another to be positioned along the drive way.
5. The arrangement according to claim 2, wherein a first shaped block comprises a protrusion in the central region of the end surface, wherein a second shaped block comprises a recess in the central region of an abutting end surface, wherein the protrusion and the recess are correspondingly shaped and arranged so that the protrusion engages the recess in a manner which allows for a variation of the relative orientation of the first and second shaped block.
6. The arrangement of claim 5, wherein the protrusion and the recess\u2014when viewed from above\u2014comprise a curved outline.
7. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the shaped blocks is arranged behind one another along the drive way of the vehicle so that the longitudinal directions of the spaces formed by the different shaped blocks for accommodating the line sections extend essentially mutually parallel.
8. The arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the shaped blocks arranged behind one another are situated between the rails of a railway track for railway vehicles, so that the longitudinal direction of the spaces for accommodating the line sections extend in an essentially horizontal plane and transversely to the drive way of the vehicle.
9. A method for positioning andor holding a plurality of line sections of one or more electric lines along a track of a vehicle, wherein
at least one shaped block having a plurality of recesses andor projections is provided, wherein edges of the recesses andor the projections each delimit a space for the line sections into which one of the line sections is introduced, so that said line section extends through the space in a longitudinal direction of the space, and wherein the longitudinal directions of the spaces delimited by the edges of the recesses andor by the projections extend essentially mutually parallel in a common plane, and
at least one electric line is introduced into the spaces such that first line sections of the electric line extend through the spaces in the longitudinal direction of the spaces,
wherein the line or lines are introduced into the spaces such that at least part of the line sections are formed by a continuous electric line so that the first line sections extending through the spaces in a transverse direction relative to a drive way of the vehicle are mutually connected via other second line sections of the electric line extending along the drive way of the vehicle, and
wherein the second line sections extend alternately at opposing sides of the shaped block, so that the electric line follows a meandering path.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the shaped block comprises an end surface for facing in a direction of travel of the vehicle, wherein the end surface comprises a central region and wherein the end surface\u2014when viewed from above\u2014retreatingly extends on both sides of the central region and wherein a further shaped block having a plane or retreatingly extending end surface is oriented in a desired direction\u2014corresponding to the path of travel of the vehicle\u2014while the end surfaces of the shaped block and of the further shaped block abutting on each other.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the shaped block comprises a protrusion in the central region of the end surface, wherein the further shaped block comprises a recess in the central region of an abutting end surface, wherein the protrusion and the recess are correspondingly shaped and wherein the shaped block and the further shaped block are arranged so that the protrusion engages the recess in a manner which allows for a variation of the relative orientation of the first and second shaped block.