Appeal No. 2003-0771
Application No. 09/031,666
water pipes 50 secured to the exterior of and extending along
opposite sides of the bottom and top arms to the water nozzles.
Pipes 50 are connected together at the joint between the arms in
a conventional manner by swivel joints (not shown). As best seen
in Figures 2 and 3, a water supply pipe 43 is provided beneath
the chassis of the vehicle and is connected by means of pipe
swivel 42, vertical pipe 41 and water pipe T 44 to the water
pipes 50 at the lower end of the bottom arm. When the vehicle
arrives at the site of a fire, connections are first made for
supplying water from a pumper to the supply pipe 43 (column 6,
lines 67-68).
Ronan discloses an apparatus for cleaning an oil spill off
of a beach. The Ronan apparatus comprises a barge 50 having
submersible pumps 54 that pump sea water from the sea, heaters
66 for heating the sea water, an articulated boom structure
80 comprising first, second and third arm sections, and a sprayer
head 81 at the distal end of the boom structure. In use, heated
water is delivered to an oil fouled area of the beach to wash the
oil into the sea, where it is contained by containment booms 100,
102, 105 and recovered by oil skimmers 162.
William relates to a method of extinguishing tank fires
using foam. The method of Williams comprises “empirically
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