US Patent Issued to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION on Sept. 15 for "Fire extinguisher valve body" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,381, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC (Bradenton, Fla.).

"Fire extinguisher valve body" was invented by Wieslaw Wieczerzak (Czermin, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve body (5) for a cartridge-operated fire extinguisher includes a first socket (51) configured to have an end of a cartridge (11) filled with propellant installed therein; and a latch (57) movable relative to the first socket (51) between a first position and a second position; in the first position the latch (57) is configured to permit an end of a cartridge (11) filled with propellant to be installed within and removed from the f...