Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – With storage device for supple escape
Reexamination Certificate
2011-05-17
2011-05-17
Mitchell, Katherine (Department: 3634)
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
With storage device for supple escape
C182S003000, C182S005000, C182S007000, C182S053000, C182S189000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07942242
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to an urban emergency escape method and apparatus for use in escaping from high-rise buildings. The method sets forth a series steps that allows one to successfully evacuate a high-rise building that is filled with smoke due a fire or the elevator system is not working due to an explosion or a terrorist attack of some kind. The apparatus utilized comprises a carry-on bag with a handle and wheels for easy mobility and a zippered cover that encloses a plurality of interconnected rope sections, a descent controller, a plurality of anchoring straps, at least one harness, D-rings and a glass breaking tool. After donning the harness and breaking the window to allow exit, the anchoring straps are secured to several different structural components within the room and tied to a first end of a rope segment. The free end of the rope segment is pre-fed through the descent controller, the user steps out the broken window and allows evacuee to descend by manipulating the descent controller.
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O'Connor Daniel J.
Soltys John S.
Mitchell Katherine
Quinn Colleen M
Walker & Jocke
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