Patent ID: 7592922
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A baffle system consisting of thin solid fins, plates or blades that are installed, added, affixed, formed with, or otherwise constituted as part of guards that are fabricated to be installed over or around devices for the detection of the products of combustion in order to provide protection for said devices for the detection of products of combustion from physical damage and/or tampering, such that: (a) the thin solid fins, plates or blades of the system are formed to fit and connect to the corners, sides, and other interior surfaces of said guard to within one eighth inch of the ceiling or wall surface to which said guard and said device for the detection of the products of combustion are attached, and to fit to within one eighth inch of the profile of an external cover or housing of the device for the detection of the products of combustion; (b) the thin solid fins, plates, or blades of the system form a series of chambers within the space between the interior surface of said guard and the exterior surface of the cover or housing of the device for the detection of the products of combustion; (c) wherein the chambers narrow from the interior surfaces of the corners, sides and/or bottoms of the guard to the exterior surfaces of the cover or housing of the device for the detection of the products of combustion; (d) wherein the narrowing chambers direct and concentrate the atmosphere entering through openings in the in the surface of the guard to openings in the exterior cover or housing of the device for the detection of the products of combustion.