CPC A62C 3/0292 (2013.01) [A62C 37/40 (2013.01); A62D 1/0035 (2013.01)] | 24 Claims |
1. A wildfire defense spraying system installed on property with a building and adapted for remote-triggering the spraying of the building and the property with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor for defending against wildfire by inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm, said wildfire defense spraying system comprises:
a storage tank containing a supply of an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor comprising a major amount of an alkali metal salt of a nonpolymeric carboxylic acid, and a minor amount of triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in a major amount of water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein said environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and ready for immediate spraying on the building and the property;
an electric-powered hydraulic pump system connected to a remote power control switch employed to supply electrical power from a power source to said electric-powered hydraulic pump system; and
one or more spray heads mounted about and/or the building and the property, and arranged in fluid communication with said storage tank, and fluid-driven by said electric-powered hydraulic pump system;
wherein in response to automated detection of wildfire embers in the region surrounding said property, said electric-powered hydraulic pump system is automatically activated and pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from said storage tank and through said spray heads to produce a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor covering the building and property to be defended against wildfire; and
when said electric-powered hydraulic pump system completes pumping and spraying said environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor in said storage tank, said electric-powered hydraulic pump system automatically shuts off, and as water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporate to the environment, fire-inhibiting alkali metal salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm.
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