Task Force Tips, Incorporated

Kent A Kekeis

Robert W Steingass

David J Kolacz

Erin L Roark

Alexander C Yovanovich

Ryan D Smaga

Travis E Bavar

Jeremy D Kaiser

A firefighting apparatus and system for operating firefighting monitors and devices includes a base or hub that can be installed on the monitors and devices. Additionally, one of a plurality of external modules may be added to the hub. This apparatus and system allows for a simple and streamlined manufacturing and assembly process. Further, additional or different functionality may be easily added or removed from the system later in time.

Modular monitor control system

A telescoping waterway component for use in firefighting equipment has a multi-piece outer tube and a telescoping inner tube through which fluid flows. An inlet component is selectively positionable at different inlet heights along the outer tube and can be positioned to provide different inlet angles. A rotating shutoff element is mounted within a manifold of the inlet component. The inner tube can be retracted to nest within a hollow cross-section of the shutoff element when that element is closed. A valve interlock disables an operator from rotating the shutoff element while the inner tube is retracted, or from retracting the inner tube while the shutoff element is open.

Telescoping waterway with integrated valve

The disclosed portable self-powered flow measuring device has a non-metallic housing through which a fluid flows. An annular turbine spins within the housing, and has a set of inwardly-extending vanes set to reduce the pressure of the flowing fluid by more than 10%. A set of magnets that are spaced circumferentially about the turbine. Coils are mounted to the housing with axes that are radial to the axis of the central waterway. A set of circumferentially spaced reinforcing arms, one for each coil, are positioned outside the coils, the circumferential width of each reinforcing arm near the axial position of the turbine being no more than the radius of the coil.

Measuring device with self-powering annular turbine

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St. John, IN, United States of America

Kent A Kekeis