1. A sprinkler wedge comprising:
a basically unitary main body having a distal and proximal end and a length therebetween, the main body having a generally wedge shape with the larger portion of the wedge toward said proximal end;
a handle assembly attached at said proximal end of said main body;
a forked tip arranged toward said distal end of said main body, said forked tip including at least two tines and a space therebetween; and
a groove arranged on a top surface of said main body;
wherein said main body is sized and shaped to pass through a central opening of a fire sprinkler head between two frame arms;
and wherein said forked tip and said groove are immobile relative to each other.
2. The sprinkler wedge of claim 1 wherein said top surface has a convex shape.
3. The sprinkler wedge of claim 2 wherein a base of said wedge is flat.
4. The sprinkler wedge of claim 1 wherein said handle assembly comprises a handle arranged perpendicular to said length of said main body and a neck connecting said handle to said main body.
5. The sprinkler wedge of claim 4 wherein said handle is cylindrical in shape.
6. The sprinkler wedge of claim 4 wherein a reinforcing bar is placed interior to said handle, said neck and said main body.
7. The sprinkler wedge of claim 1 wherein said groove is sized and shaped to slide over a screw head of a screw connecting a deflector plate to said two frame arms.
8. A method of inhibiting water flow from an open sprinkler head, the method comprising:
providing a sprinkler head having a water stream exiting a discharge port and impacting a deflector plate;
providing a sprinkler wedge, said wedge including;
a basically unitary wedge shaped main body;
a handle assembly at a proximal end of said main body;
a forked tip at a distal end of said main body, said forked tip including at least two tines with a space therebetween; and
a groove arranged on a top surface of said main body;
wherein said forked tip and said groove are immobile relative to each other;
grasping said handle;
placing said forked tip at said sprinkler head such that said water stream passes between said tines;
pushing said main body into said water stream until said main body is stably in contact with said sprinkler head and said water stream is at least partially blocked by said wedge.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein in said step of pushing, said groove passes over a screw head in said sprinkler head.
10. The sprinkler wedge of claim 1 wherein the sprinkler wedge is comprised of rubber.
11. The sprinkler wedge of claim 10 wherein the elastic properties of said rubber allow the wedge to form a tight seal with the sprinkler head discharge port.
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. A glue-binding operating device, in applications in which movement must be created in two different devices with the aid of a single operating lever, characterized in that at least one drive sprocket has teeth for engaging adjacent press carrier and side-nipping device sprockets over only a specific segment of the drive sprocket, and is attached to a shaft of the operating lever, and further characterized in that the operating device moves a press carrier and a side-nipping device.
2. An operating device according to claim 1, characterized in that the teeth of the drive sprocket extend to an area, in which the outermost teeth of the segment of the drive sprocket essentially engage with the teeth of the adjacent press carrier and side-nipping sprockets on either side of the drive sprocket.
3. An operating device according to claim 2, characterized in that the position of the outermost teeth of the drive sprocket in relation to the teeth of the adjacent press carrier and side-nipping sprockets is such that a contact transmitting power is created between the teeth of the drive sprocket and of the adjacent sprockets only by rotating the drive sprocket in one direction.
4. An operating device according to claim 3, characterized in that power transmitting contact between the drive sprocket and one adjacent sprocket arises when the drive sprocket is turned in the opposite direction to that creating contact between drive sprocket and the other adjacent sprocket.
5. An operating device according to claim 1, characterized in that the device has one sprocket, with teeth only in a specific segment.
6. An operating device according to claim 1, characterized in that the device drive sprocket has two sprocket segments, one of which is intended to engage with the side-nipping sprocket and the other with the press carrier sprocket.