Wildfire defense system trailer for protecting a wood-building job-site from wildfire during the construction phase of a wood-building construction project located within a wildfire urban interface (wui) region

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025041636-A1
Application number	US-202418788241-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 30, 2024
Priority date	Feb 4, 2021
Publication date	Feb 6, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A wildfire defense system trailer for protecting a wood-building job-site from wildfire during the construction phase of a wood-building construction project located within a wildfire urban interface (WUI) region. The wildfire defense system trailer includes: a trailer framework provided with wheels; an adjustable stand mechanism adapted for coupling to a hitch mounted on the rear frame of a truck or tractor provided with an engine and drive train for pulling the trailer to its wood-building construction job-site destination(s); a cabin enclosure mounted on the trailer having a rear hinged door/loading ramp for loading and unloading equipment and supplies stored inside the cabin, and a sheltered interior volume for storing diverse kinds of equipment, and supplies of environmentally-clean water-based liquid wildfire inhibitor that is used for performing different functions, namely: (i) spraying on wood building materials to provide Class-fire protection to wood buildings as they are constructed on the on the wood building construction job-site; (ii) spraying on active fire outbreaks on the wood building construction job-site to extinguish the fire outbreaks; and (iii) spraying over the job-site construction area and wood building(s) being constructed thereon, prior to the occurrence of a wildfire outbreak, to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread. The spray application of said environmentally-clean water-based liquid wildfire inhibitor reduces and/or mitigates damage and/or destruction of property by wildfire.

First claim

1 . A mobile wildfire defense system trailer for deployment and use on a wood-building construction job-site, comprising:
a trailer framework provided with wheels, an adjustable stand mechanism adapted for coupling to a hitch mounted on the rear frame of a truck or tractor provided with an engine and drive train for pulling the trailer to its wood-building construction job-site destination(s), a cabin enclosure mounted on the trailer having a rear hinged door/loading ramp for loading and unloading equipment and supplies stored inside the cabin, and a sheltered interior volume for storing diverse kinds of equipment, and supplies of environmentally-clean water-based liquid wildfire inhibitor that is used for performing different functions, namely: (i) spraying on wood building materials to provide Class-A fire protection to wood buildings as they are constructed on the on the wood building construction job-site; (ii) spraying on active fire outbreaks on the wood building construction job-site to extinguish the fire outbreaks; and (iii) spraying over the wood building construction job-site and wood building(s) being constructed thereon, prior to the occurrence of a wildfire outbreak, to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread; wherein the spray application of said environmentally-clean water-based liquid wildfire inhibitor reduces and/or mitigates damage and/or destruction of property by wildfire.

2 . The mobile wildfire defense system trailer of claim 1 , wherein said sheltered interior volume is equipped with the following equipment and supplies comprising:
(i) a portable backpack fire inhibitor spray-atomizing system, each filled with a quantity of environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor supplied from a supply tank; (ii) a portable air-less liquid fire inhibitor spraying system with a spray nozzle for spraying environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor; (iii) pails containing environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor for use in spraying on wood material on a home construction job-site and providing Class A fire protection to wood material present therein; (iv) trailer-mounted automated sprinkler-based job-site wildfire defense spraying system for use during the construction phase of a home building project, triggered by an automated AI-based smoke and/or wildfire ember detection system/network deployed within a WUI region; (v) a portable trailer-mounted fire extinguishing system for use in extinguishing job-site construction fires using a supply tank containing environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor; and (vi) a kit of components for rapidly installing and deploying a trailer-supported sprinkler-based liquid wildfire inhibitor spraying system (e.g. which may include a flag pole supported sprinkler spray head for deep and far range delivery of liquid fire inhibitor droplets on said job-site), said a kit of components including a liquid wildfire inhibitor pumping system, a liquid wildfire inhibitor storage tank, a set of sprinkler spray heads, and flexible piping for forming fluid conduits.

3 . The mobile wildfire defense system trailer of claim 1 , wherein said pails contain environmentally-clean water-based liquid wildfire inhibitor for providing Class A fire protection to wood material on job-site project in the wildfire urban interface (WUI) region, wherein the liquid fire inhibitor, factory-blended and certified, is used to spray the exterior of all wood framed and/or mass-timber material surfaces of the wood-framed and/or mass-timber buildings.

4 . The mobile wildfire defense system trailer of claim 1 , wherein in the case of wood-framed building projects, said portable air-less liquid sprayer is used for spray applying the liquid fire inhibitor to the wood surfaces of wood-framed building projects, to provide Class-A fire protection to the exterior wood surfaces that might become exposed to wildfire or other sources of fire during the home building project

5 . The mobile wildfire defense system trailer of claim 1 , wherein in the case of mass-timber wood building projects, mass-timber construction panels are prefabricated and sprayed with liquid fire inhibitor within a factory environment, to provide Class-A fire protection to the mass-timber panels.

Assignees

• Mighty Fire Breaker Llc

Inventors

• Conboy Stephen

Classifications

• A62C3/0292

  by spraying extinguishants directly into the fire (A62C3/0242 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A62D1/0035

  Aqueous solutions · CPC title

• A62C3/0214 Primary

  for buildings or installations in fire storms · CPC title

• A62D1/005

  Dispersions; Emulsions · CPC title

• A62C27/00

  Fire-fighting land vehicles · CPC title