- Author
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Waterman, T. E.
- Title
- Early Warning Fire Detection Performance in the Hospital Patient Room. A Study. Final Report.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL
- Sponsor
- Rixson-Firemark, Inc., Franklin Park, IL
- Report
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Final Report; Project J8176,
February 15, 1973,
32 p.
- Keywords
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fire detection
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hospitals
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patients
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warning systems
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life safety
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time experiments
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detector response
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occupants
- Identifiers
- summary of test conditions and comparison of response time for detectors 4 and 7; comparison of detector response and smoke obscuration measurements at the patients head at time of alarm; gas concentration measurements
- Abstract
- These experiments clearly indicate that a door frame mounted detector provides automatic positioning and one of the best locations for optimum detector response in patient sleeping rooms. The experiments, which represent fire situations in a hospital patient sleeping room, clearly indicate the need for additional full scale testing of smoke and ionization detectors under actual conditions. They also show that the design configuration of this combination detector/holder/closer unit provides equivalent protection of the room occupants as compared with the ceiling mounted detector installations.