Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Horizontal traversing - actuation – control – or response – Occupant actuation or control
Patent
1989-01-13
1990-04-24
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Horizontal traversing - actuation, control, or response
Occupant actuation or control
182 47, 182142, A62B 102
Patent
active
049192280
ABSTRACT:
System for rescuing occupants of a tall building having at least one generally planar windowed face is disclosed, which system includes a first and a second boom mounted respectively at opposite sides of the building face at a building level above that face. Each boom has a retracted position and is shiftable to a cantilevered position in which its outer end overhangs the side of the building. A first and a second hoist cable extends respectively from the outer ends of the booms. A rescue cage has a top, a bottom and a flexible, collapsible, heat-shielding wall extending between the peripheries of the top and bottom to provide a shielded compartment. A pair of hoists are mounted to the cage top and engage individually the first and second hoist cables in order to drivingly support the cage adjacent the building face. The hoists are controllable so as to be driven differentially to move the cage transversely of the building face, and driven in the same direction for vertical motion. The cage is vertically collapsible to a compact configuration in which the top and bottom are in close proximity with the flexible wall portion folded therebetween.
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Corbin Charles C.
Machado Reinaldo P.
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