Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Platform with elevating or lowering means – Suspended
Patent
1991-02-05
1992-07-07
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Platform with elevating or lowering means
Suspended
182 19, 187 6, A62B 102
Patent
active
051274914
ABSTRACT:
A fire/rescue system which overcomes the deficiencies of internal and external fire escapes noted above by providing a plurality of compartments which are mounted to traverse the vertical side walls of a high-rise building to carry individuals from designated locations, vertically distributed along the side walls of the building, to safety of the base of the building. The compartments are stored prior to use and between uses on the roof of the high-rise building, preferably within a specially-designed garage therefor, thus overcoming the aesthetic deficiencies of external fire escapes. In the event a fire and/or smoke sensing device is activated within the building, one or more of the compartments is ejected from the rooftop storage facility and tranverses down the exterior wall(s) of the building. The control system for each compartment is programmed so that the compartment stops briefly at each of certain designated floors to pick up passengers and gradually descends all the way to the ground floor to allow its occupants to exit therefrom. The compartment is then quickly returned to a predesignated point along the side wall of the building, for example adjacent the roof, to repeat the descending/passenger pick-up process. The compartments may also be controlled so as to carry one or more firemen from the ground to various floors of the building to facilitate fire-fighting from the exterior.
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