Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Inclined cable supporting carrier traveling therealong
Patent
1986-07-28
1987-04-28
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Inclined cable supporting carrier traveling therealong
182 39, 114366, 114375, A62B 3700, A62B 120
Patent
active
046606777
ABSTRACT:
Personnel evacuation apparatus for use with an offshore platform. A launching ramp that is mounted to the platform by a gimbal is stowed in a vertical position with a survival vessel secured in the entry end of the ramp. A release mechanism activatable from the deck of the platform enables flotation members secured to the exit end of the ramp, to pivot the ramp about the gimbal to its deployed position. The gimbal further permits the ramp to maintain a usable orientation in spite of inclination of the deck of the platform by 25.degree. due to pitch, roll or yaw. The exit end will pivot under wave action so as to gravity launch the survival vessel downwind and, upon release of the boat securement, carry the vessel safely away from the platform.
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Machado Reinaldo P.
Thomson Richard K.
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