Pyrene hand fire extinguisher
Description
- Media Type
- Object
- Description
- Brass container with a hand pump and black enamel mounting bracket. It was manufactured by the Pyrene Manufacturing Company and inspected by Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada. The tank holds 1 quart and could be refilled after use through a filling plug.
It is hanging on the wall but this type extinguisher was often mounted on motor vehicles. - Notes
- The Pyrene Manufacturing Company filed a patent for using a carbon tetrachloride (CTC) to extinguish fires and in 1911 they patented a small, portable extinguisher that used the chemical. CTC primarily worked by creating a dense, oxygen-excluding blanket of fumes when exposed to fire. Carbon-tetrachloride extinguishers were withdrawn in late 1950s because of the chemical's toxicity.
- Inscriptions
- "H.E.P.C.
Pyrene hand fire extinguisher
Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada inspected
.833 imperial (one U.S.) quart
Class B-2. C-2. No.93739 C
This extinguisher may be used on electrical fires
To operate turn handle to left
Work like a pump
- Dimensions
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Width: 7.5 cm
Height: 35 cm
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Pyrene Manufacturing Company. Newark, New Jersey
- Local identifier
- FHM00073
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.2485248325967 Longitude: -79.0873923959923
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- Location of Original
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Hall Museum
2 Anderson Lane
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0 - Contact
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Public LibraryEmail:localhistory@notlpl.org
Website
Agency street/mail address:10 Anderson Lane P.O. Box 430
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0
905-468-2023
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