Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Single stile – strand or pole – Flexible
Reexamination Certificate
2001-09-27
2003-04-22
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Single stile, strand or pole
Flexible
C182S005000, C248S208000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06550580
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to fire escape systems and more particularly pertains to a new fire escape system for providing a safe means for individuals to escape fires from various structures.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of fire escape systems is known in the prior art. More specifically, fire escape systems heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,880,255; 4,287,963; 4,503,933; 404,514; 632,993; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 363,784.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new fire escape system. The inventive device includes a frame assembly that is adapted for coupling to a window frame. A suspension member is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is suspended from the frame assembly such that the suspension member is adapted for supporting a user escaping from the building. The suspension member is extendable between the frame assembly and the ground. A boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The boom assembly has a support member. The support member of the boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is coupled to the boom assembly such that the boom assembly is adapted for suspending the suspension member a distance from a wall of the building for inhibiting the user from is burned by the burning building.
In these respects, the fire escape system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a safe means for individuals to escape fires from various structures.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of fire escape systems now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new fire escape system construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a safe means for individuals to escape fires from various structures.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new fire escape system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the fire escape systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new fire escape system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art fire escape systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a frame assembly that is adapted for coupling to a window frame. A suspension member is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is suspended from the frame assembly such that the suspension member is adapted for supporting a user escaping from the building. The suspension member is extendable between the frame assembly and the ground. A boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The boom assembly has a support member. The support member of the boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is coupled to the boom assembly such that the boom assembly is adapted for suspending the suspension member a distance from a wall of the building for inhibiting the user from is burned by the burning building.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new fire escape system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the fire escape systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new fire escape system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art fire escape systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new fire escape system, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new fire escape system, which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such fire escape system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system, which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system for providing a safe means for individuals to escape fires from various structures.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system, which includes a frame assembly that is adapted for coupling to a window frame. A suspension member is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is suspended from the frame assembly such that the suspension member is adapted for supporting a user escaping from the building. The suspension member is extendable between the frame assembly and the ground. A boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The boom assembly has a support member. The support member of the boom assembly is coupled to the frame assembly. The suspension member is coupled to the boom assembly such that the boom assembly is adapted for suspending the suspension member a distance from a wall of the building for inhibiting the user from is burned by the burning building.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system that may be readied in a matter of seconds permitting an adult to help other adults and children reach safely to the ground.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new fire escape system that can be produced in a wide range of sizes for fit most typical double-hung, sliding and other windows.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects
Stodola Daniel P.
Thompson Hugh B.
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