Patent ID: 6622800
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: A62C

Abstract:
Land surface treating equipment for treating land by way of burning burnable growth conducive thereto and found on such land in response to the equipment, as serving a firebreak forming function, traversing it comprising:a treatment chamber defining shell enclosing a treatment application zone in the form of a burning chamber in conjunction with land bordering it from below once the shell is operatively situated and which shell makes provision for suitable ventilation in ventilating the burning chamber enabling the atmospheric discharge of combusted product that does not settle on the land once the equipment is in operative use, a suitably supplied treatment medium discharge layout that provides a burner providing arrangement that is fitted to desirably discharge medium into the burning chamber to enable the effective burning of growth as found on land desired to be treated and as bordering the burning chamber once the equipment is operatively positioned for containing burning to a strip of land traversed by the equipment once in use, and a fire extinguishing layout that is fitted to the shell for the appropriate application of fire extinguishing agent in at least laterally, with respect to the direction of travel of the shell, containing the effect of burning treatment that is inclined to spread outside the burning chamber to the chamber, thereby limiting the possibility of the spreading of fire to burnable growth situated alongside the equipment on its operative traversal of land, the equipment, where not self driven, making provision for being towed behind a towing vehicle.