Escape device for use in multistoried buildings

Details Escape device for use in multistoried buildings Escape device for use in multistoried buildings

1979-01-09

1980-06-24

Machado, Reinaldo P.

Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold

Endless conveyer escape

182 36, 182 70, 182196, A62B 100

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042090776

ABSTRACT:
An escape device for use in tall buildings wherein an endless ladder-type chain driven around a plurality of chain sprockets is mounted on a movable platform and lowered over the side of a building to enable escape to ground level from a burning building. The endless ladder chain is compactly stored when not in use in a housing which includes a pair of inclined rod-like support members by which the endless chain under the force of gravity is slidingly dispensed from the chain housing to the sprocket assembly.

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patent: 1882145 (1932-10-01), Hirschman
patent: 3894613 (1975-07-01), Elizondo

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