Automatic Fire Extinguisher.

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Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).

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[2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Fuller, Wily Scott December 30, 1890.

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  • Fuller, Wily Scott Fuller, W. S., of Orange, Texas, assignor of two-thirds to Joseph A. Broussard and Samuel H. Wilson.

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Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).

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[2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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"SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,912, dated December 30, 1890. Application filed October 1, 1890. Serial No. 366,740. (No model.)"

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  • December 30, 1890

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  • October 1, 1890

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Fuller, Wily Scott. Automatic Fire Extinguisher., patent, December 30, 1890; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172562/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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