Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – With storage device for supple escape
Patent
1997-10-06
2000-10-24
Lev, Bruce A.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
With storage device for supple escape
182 35, 182196, 182198, 228 40, A62B 106
Patent
active
06135239&
ABSTRACT:
A self-contained fire escape apparatus for mounting in a wall of a building adjacent an associated window includes a collapsible ladder. A cover is securely attached to a first end of the ladder. A box is configured to provide storage space for the ladder and defines a bottom wall, front and rear walls, a pair of sidewalls, and an opening in the front wall. A second end of the ladder is securely anchored to the box. The cover is releasably attached to the box to cover at least a portion of the opening such that a person can manually remove the cover and eject the cover and the first end of the ladder through the associated window. The box is configured for mounting within a building wall in close reception between a pair of upright structural members of the building wall. The collapsible ladder 2 is sufficiently small in its collapsed condition that it fits within the box 8 for storage. The ladder preferably includes a handle link with at least three elongate rigid handle sections that are rigidly interconnected. At least two of the handle sections form integral stand-offs that abut a flat surface to thereby support a first handle section in a spaced-apart relationship from the flat surface such that a person using the ladder can easily and securely grasp the first handle section.
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