RET RAM® — Blasts through barriers
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Firefighters & First Responders
Law Enforcement
Military
RET RAM® – the world's most versitile battering ram.
Device Description
The RET RAM® Battering Ram is a single man hand held breaching device weighing approximately 40 pounds. The Ram carries a self contained high pressure air cylinder and is capable of delivering quick repeatable multiple blows. The ram can be recharged at any fire station, scuba shop or “on site” by portable field compressors.
Exclusive Features
The RET RAM® Battering Ram is equipped with the Eaton/Aeroquip FD-17® high pressure disconnect coupling. This coupling is the only coupling authorized and demanded by the Department of Homeland Security for standardized use by all first responders, Rapid Intervention Teams (RIT Teams), and all fire departments nationwide. This coupling is exclusive to the RET RAM® and makes the ram not only the only pneumatic battering ram on the market, but the only ram compatable with a firefighter’s RIT PAK™ air line.
Additional Features
Further, the RET RAM® carries a “buddy breathing” safety feature, designed in conjunction with the engineers of Eaton/Aeroquip. This makes the RET RAM® not only a superior breaching tool, but a life saving source of breathable air for firefighters in need.
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First generation Ret Ram® working model.
Milwaukee School of Engineering's fluid power institute's testing lab.
US Patents for RET RAM® BATTERING RAM:
Patent No. US 9,155,918 B2
Filed: July 3, 2012
Issued: October 13, 2015
David Krumrei
Patent No. US 10,821,308 B1
Filed: September 20, 2016
Issued: November 3, 2020
David Krumrei
Elevated Launcher Sight (ELS™)
The Elevated Launcher Sight (ELS) is an adjustable occluded eye gun sight for use with multiple types of weapons including guns and projectile launchers. The sight being light weight, having a low profile, and mountable on top of a weapon and adjustable for different launch angles.
Patent No. US 9,459,075 B1
Filed: April 30, 2014
Issued: October 4, 2016
Assigned: Rapid Entry Technologies, LLC.
Ret Ram® Additional Information
BACKSTORY
Detroit, March 1993: A single house fire claimed the lives of all seven children of the Robinson family. Although the children ranged in age, the older children were capable of caring for the younger. All the children perished in the home behind security bars on the ground floor doors and windows. Because of the security bars the children were unable to escape the burning home and firefighters were unable to timely gain access to the home to rescue the trapped children. Those tragic and preventable deaths offered the impetus for the development of the RET RAM® Battering Ram.
FIRST GENERATION RET RAM®
The first commercial RET RAM® was first developed over several years with the help of Adrian Tools, Adrian MI, Ladysmith Machining, Ladysmith, WI and Vector Engineering of Chaska, MN. Testing of the ram was done at the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Fluid Power Institute. Formal documentation of the ram’s performance was published in an academic paper developed by Thomas Labus and inventor David Krumrei. This paper was formally presented at the 2011 International Fluid Power Institute Exposition in Las Vegas, USA. The RET RAM® testing results were also presented to the Department of Homeland Security at a meeting at the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Fluid Power Institute in 2011.
FIRST GENERATION RET RAM® FEATURES
The RET RAM® Battering Ram is a single man use close quarters battering ram powered by high-pressure compressed air.
- The ram is rechargeable at any firehouse/or in the field using the same portable air compressors used to fill firefighter's SCBA tanks.
- CGA fittings compatible with firehouse compressors and matched for precise filling of air tanks: 2500, 3000, 4500 PSI depending on what the firefighters use in their SCBA tanks.
- Eaton Aeroquip's FD-17 quick disconnect (under pressure) fitting for using the ram’s compressed air tank for emergency aid for the firefighter.
- Changeable battering heads for different circumstances including brick breaking heads for rescue through brick or block walls.
- Dead man handle on manifold as a safety feature.
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