Military vehicles equipped with upright fuel tanks are subject to near-explosion type fires when enemy projectiles pass through the tank. It is herein proposed to provide a source of pressurized fire suppressant near the fuel tank. Discharge of suppressant toward the emergent fireball is controlled by a squib valve that is triggered to the open condition by a pressure-responsive sensor mounted on the tank; the sensor responds to the shock wave generated by passage of the enemy projectile through the tank. Suppressant is directed toward the fireball by a bladder stretched across the inboard wall of the tank. Such a bladder advantageously has no metallic components that could fragment into dangerous lethal particles. (Author)
Fire Suppression Bladder System for Fuel Tanks
1979
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fuel & Propellant Tanks , Government Inventions for Licensing , Patents , Fuel tanks , Bladders , Fire suppression , Walls , Metals , Parts , Fire resistant materials , Inventions , Pressurization , Impact tests , Particles , Projectiles , Nuclear fireball , Military vehicles , Lethality , Fragments , PAT-CL-169-62 , Fire suppressants
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