Full range of installation accessories available
Fire Fighting Enterprises Ltd., manufacturer of the popular Fireray series of wide-area optical beam smoke detectors, has launched a full range of installation accessories for use with its fire protection products.
Dorgard helps keep college staff and
students safe
One of the UK’s leading independent schools has installed Dorgards in a new art facility and its boarding houses, allowing fire doors to be kept open during normal use and automatically releasing them should the fire alarm sound.
Lancing College, founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848 and set in 550 acres of beautiful Sussex downs, offers an extremely rich, diverse education for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Famous former pupils include lyricist Sir Tim Rice, playwright Sir David Hare, former British Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer and novelist Evelyn Waugh.
Commenting, the College said that “The Dorgards not only assist with traffic flow of staff and pupils but ensure that fire safety is not compromised. Fitting was also very easy with no disruption, no unsightly and expensive wiring –- an easy and convenient solution”.
Fireco’s Dorgard range is the wireless solution that offers the simplest, most cost-effective way of legally holding open fire doors safely in any position, automatically releasing them should the fire alarm sound. Dorgard also offers significant cost advantages as it can be fitted in minutes, with no wiring required. With over 300,000 Dorgards installed across the UK, the Dorgard range is recognised as the accepted solution to the illegally wedged open fire door problem in any environment, complying fully with all relevant British Standards and EU Directives.
For product information Fireco Ltd. Tel: 0845 241 7474
Email:
sales@firecoltd.com www.firecoltd.com
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The company offers various mounting plates and brackets for the reflector prisms, allowing easy fixing and positioning of either a single- or 4-prism array to surfaces at almost any angle. Protective cages for the Fireray 5000 detector head and controller units are also available, in addition to those for the Fireray 50/100R and Fireray 2000 models. The Prism Plate for either 1 or 4 prisms
is suitable for situations where the wall facing the detector head is perpendicular to the angle of the beam. Where this is not the case, the Prism Plate can be attached to a Universal Bracket that fixes to the wall, allowing the angle of the prisms to be adjusted to reflect the beam back correctly. The reinforced Surface Mount Plate is another option, providing a particularly rigid and secure fixing. The Protective Cages are made from plastic-coated galvanised steel and will protect detector heads and controller units from accidental knocks. Ladders, forklifts and other moving equipment in a warehousing or industrial setting could easily catch one of the wall-mounted devices, and the cages will help prevent damage or misalignment that may occur. Similarly, in leisure facilities, they will protect the fire detection system from flying footballs, tennis balls and other potential sources of knocks. The cages will also offer some protection against birds and bats, however care should be taken that the detectors’ lenses remain unobscured to prevent false alarms or unnecessary fault alerts. Email:
sales@ffeuk.com www.ffeuk.com
New range of Base-Mounted Flame Detectors
Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd. is bringing a range of eight new base-mounted flame detectors to the market, combining high performance with a compact design into a unit suitable for most land-based and marine applications.
The devices’ Class 1 performance allows them to quickly detect 0.1m2 flames at a distance of 25m (EN54-10), and they can rapidly detect all types of flames – including those from a hydrogen source, which are invisible to the both the naked eye and some alternative flame detection systems.
The devices are available in intelligent and conventional versions which fit into Apollo’s popular Discovery, XP95 or Series 65 bases, and are suitable for use in both marine and land-based fire safety systems. A choice of detection methods is available to suit the application, with single UV, UV/IR2 combined, and IR3 variants on offer. Single UV distinguishes between flames and most other sources of radiation, which the combined UV/IR2 also does in addition to filtering out most sources of false alarms such as arc welding and flickering sunlight. The IR3 is
typically unaffected by dust, dirt and other sources of false alarms, as the detector can still operate effectively even with the lens partially obscured.
Installation is made quick and easy with a special bracket and integral Deckhead Mounting Box, and full compatibility with the Discovery and XP95 protocols ensures that this range of high-quality flame detectors is suitable for almost any situation where flame detection is important – such as: aircraft hangars, recycling centres, manufacturing and chemical production plants, ships’ engine rooms, fuel handling areas and power generation facilities.
Email:
sales@apollo-fire.co.uk www.apollo-fire.co.uk
Building & Facilities Management – October 2010
Fire & Hazard Protection
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