Tyco Fire Products LP

Viking Group, Inc.

Minimax Viking Research & Development Gmbh

Minimax Viking Patent Management Gmbh

Central Sprinkler Corporation

Central Sprinkler Company

James E Golinveaux

Scott Thomas Franson

Martin H Workman

Jason Thomas Watson

David J Leblanc

George S Polan

Stephen J Meyer

Roger S Wilkins

Michael Mahomet

Leonid Nikolaychik

Thomas Prymak

Alexander Nikolayev

Valery Popov

Valeri Mourachko

Andrey Bril

Valery Babenko

Vitaly Kabashnikov

Mark E Fessenden

Michael Flax

Valery Sosinovich

Manuel R Silva, Jr

Yoram Ringer

Bernhard Abels

Su Yang

Ralph A Loh

Kevin D Maughan

Wisdom Zoya-Sosinovich, Legal Representative

Thomas Prymark

System and methods using automatic fire protection sprinklers to provide ceiling-only fire protection of rack storage. The systems and methods provide for hydraulic and system parameters that include a hydraulic design area based upon five to no more than twelve hydraulically most remote fire protection sprinklers with a prescribed hybrid minimum design pressure.

Automatic fire sprinklers, systems and methods for fire protection of storage commodities with a hybrid minimum design pressure

Fire protection systems and methods provide for the protection of horizontal concealed interstitial spaces of either a solid wood joist, open bar joist or open truss construction system. The systems and methods provide and locate fire protection sprinklers to define localized heat detection areas that are over 1000 sq. ft., at least 2000 sq. ft., over 2000 sq. ft. and/or otherwise unconfined by draft curtains or other barriers.

Systems and methods for fire protection of horizontal interstitial spaces with expanded localized heat detection areas

A device and method for protecting and installing a fire protection sprinkler. The protective and installation device has two discrete protective members coupled to one another about the sprinkler by a releasable locking arrangement defined by a connection between the two discrete protective members. At least one of the members includes a torque assist portion for applying torque to the fire protection sprinkler and each of the members includes a deflector protection portion.

Protection and installation device for fire protection sprinklers

Fire protection sprinkler assemblies and methods of use in corrosive environments. The sprinkler assemblies include a corrosion resistant sprinkler frame made of a gradient material. The gradient material includes a polymeric layer interlocked about a corrosion-prone core in order to protect the frame structure from a corrosive environment. The interlock between the core and the protective polymer layers are defined by ionic bonding between the core and the outer polymer layer.

Fire protection sprinkler having gradient material components and methods of evaluating corrosive environment use

Fire protection systems and methods provide for the protection of horizontal concealed interstitial spaces of either a solid wood joist, open bar joist or open truss construction system. The systems and methods provide and locate fire protection sprinklers to define localized heat detection areas that are over 1000 sq. ft, at least 2000 sq. ft., over 2000 sq. ft. and/or otherwise unconfined by draft curtains or other barriers.

System and methods to provide ceiling-only suppression fire protection of up to fifty feet (50 ft.) of rack storage of cartoned unexpanded plastic commodities and less hazardous commodities, such as for example, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 and/or combinations thereof beneath a ceiling having a maximum ceiling height up to fifty-five feet (55 ft.). The systems and methods provide for hydraulic and system parameters that include a hydraulic design area based upon five to no more than twelve hydraulically most remote sprinklers spaced at a preferred sprinkler-to-sprinkler spacing of eight to ten feet (8-10 ft.) coupled to two to four branch lines tied to a common cross main supply pipe of firefighting fluid.

Automatic fire sprinklers, systems and methods for suppression fire protection of high hazard commodities including commodities stored in rack arrangements beneath ceilings of up to fifty-five feet in height

A method to model a complex system of pipes. The model takes into account the physical processes in a tree-type piping system and provides for an accurate modeling of a real world tree-type piping system. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program is provided for analyzing models of dry pipe systems. The computer program includes a user interface and a computational engine. The user interface allows a model of a dry pipe system to be defined and the computational engine determines a liquid flow time through the model of the dry pipe system. The computational engine provides a verification of the liquid flow time in a model of a referential dry pipe system within 20% of an actual liquid flow time in the referential dry pipe system.

System and method for evaluation of fluid flow in a piping system

System and methods to provide ceiling-only suppression fire protection of up to fifty feet (50 ft.) of rack storage of cartoned unexpanded plastic commodities and less hazardous commodities, such as for example, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 and/or combinations thereof beneath a ceiling having a maximum ceiling height up to fifty-five feet (55 ft.).

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James E Golinveaux