Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Inclined cable supporting carrier traveling therealong
Patent
1975-12-17
1977-09-27
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Inclined cable supporting carrier traveling therealong
182 49, 182191, A62B 120, A62B 102
Patent
active
040505421
ABSTRACT:
Mobile rescue apparatus is provided for rescuing individuals from modern high-rise buildings and the like. An elongated reeved telescoping chute is mounted on a mobile platform and is movable to any angle and extent to reach a desired portion of a building or the like from which rescue is to be effected. The chute contains apparatus mounted within for slowing and stopping (near the bottom of the chute) an individual sliding down the chute. The apparatus includes a pair of cable sections that flare out from the top of the chute to the bottom of the chute; an individual to be rescued is placed within a bag device which is clipped onto the cable sections, and then slid down the chute, the divergence of the cable sections slowing and stopping the individual near the bottom. Apparatus is provided for moving the cable sections with respect to each other to control the rate of descent, etc.
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