Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

S/O

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

2

Ou

shoulder flash

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

fabric & embroidery thread

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

10,3 cm

Largeur

10,0 cm

Hauteur

S/O

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Exploitation forestière

Catégorie

Lutte contre d'incendie

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Inconnu

Pays

Inconnu

État/province

Inconnu

Ville

Inconnu

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Alberta

Période

Inconnu

Canada

Uniform identification badges used by Canadian forestry and forest fire fighting personnel, specifically of Alberta. A Rapattack unit is an initial wildfire attack unit trained to descend from a specially equipped, hovering helicopter on a rope fitted with a mechanical device to control the rate of descent, a specialized form of helitack (helicopter firefighting unit). The Rapattack program is one of only two such programs in Canada, & has been in existence since 1983. The 7-person units undergo a month of intensive rappel training, including a physically demanding training course, emergency retrieval procedures & ongoing evaluations. The units are Edmonton based & to allow for quick response are transported to fires by 8 contracted medium rotary-wing aircraft (Ref. 3).

Fonction

Identifying patches worn on the uniforms of provincial fire fighting personnel, affixed to a shirt or jacket.

Technique

An example of a machine embroidered fabric badge. For centuries embroidery hand been done by hand, but during the industrial revolution mechanization of the process began. Embroidery machines were designed by 1860, combining in a single machine handloom technology with the existing sewing machine technology, the lock-stitch. The automation was refined in the in the 1970s - early 1980s with automatic, electronically controlled custom embroidered machines developed in Japan. Instead of the instructions being coded on a continuous reel of paper or Mylar(r) tape containing x-y coordinate information in Binary, Fortran or other numeric code to control pantograph movement, the information is now digitized on computer disks. These machines also do the work flat instead of vertically which allows automatic colour changes (Ref. 1).

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

embroidered black lettering reading "Alberta/ SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE/DEVELOPMENT/ Forest Protection/ RAPATTACK"

Manque

complete

Fini

blue, brown, black, green, red

Décoration

embroidered green trees/ black edging