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7699140 Method and system for transporting a person between a plurality of fixed platforms  
A method and device to facilitate the transporting of a person between a plurality of fixed platforms provides a revenue generating activity for owners of nature directed resorts. In one...
7219766 Mid-span fall protection system  
A mid-span fall protection system including a remotely attachable fall protection latching mechanism for attachment to an elevated horizontal strand. The fall protection latching mechanism may be...
7156203 Device and method for evacuating persons, for example from a multi-storey building on fire  
Device for evacuating persons, for example from a multi-storey building on fire, from an evacuating location to a secure location, comprising: a balloon provided to be filled with a gas lighter...
7017947 Pipe holder  
A pipe holder includes a body member and a support member connected to and extending away from the body member. The body member defines an opening proximate a first end of the body member.
5094171 Cable guided platform escape vehicle with tubular frame construction  
A platform escape vehicle, particularly for rapid escape of a derrickman from his monkey-board on a drilling rig, consisting of two sheaves with double grooves mounted on parallel shafts, to take a...
4660677 Personnel evacuation apparatus for an offshore platform  
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...
4593787 Sky-slide system from elevated structures  
This invention relates to a rapid emergency escape system from elevated structures such as the fire-escape system from the top of a sky scraper to the ground level, which rapid descending system...
4591021 Sky-slide emergency escape system  
This invention relates to a rapid emergency escape system from an elevated structure which could be used as a fire-escape system from different levels of high rise building to its ground level. The...
4556123 Patient evacuation system from a multistory structure  
An evacuation system for nonambulatory patients from a multistory hospital or the like. A trackway is secureable to a wall of a stairwell and includes a hanger rail support. A hanger is rotatably...
4550804 Climbing assist apparatus having controlled descent and escape mechanism  
A climbing assist apparatus for oil derricks and the like comprises a cable which is attached to the worker and is trained over a sheave at the crown portion of the rig, then connected to a...
4538703 Climbing aid and safety descent system  
A safety system which permits the free movement of the user, assists the ascent of the user and provides a reduced, controlled rate of descent in the event of an emergency descent or a fall,...
4538704 Multiple-person evacuation method and apparatus  
This invention relates to a multiperson emergency evacuation system characterized by a first rope used for the initial descent down the outside of the building, a combination anchoring and descent...
4474263 Derrick elevator  
A system for moving personnel between two elevations has features that allow control of ascent and descent by the passenger. The system has a cage carried by a load bearing cable that is moved to...
4458781 Climbing aid and safety descent device  
A novel controlled descent device is disclosed which not only aids in the ascent of a human being from a lower elevation to an upper elevation but also provides for the safe descent of a human...
4442918 Emergency escape device  
An escape device for allowing an endangered person to be safely lowered from a drilling tower or other elevated structure includes an automatic brake which controls the descent of a trolley...
4434869 Rescue apparatus  
An apparatus for transporting personnel or materials from an upper elevation to a lower elevation. Twin guideline means are suspended between the upper and lower elevations from each of which is...
4369538 Apparatus for transfer of persons and goods between structures offshore  
System for offshore transfer of persons and goods, preferably between a supply vessel and a stationary platform or a moored drilling/production platform or vessel, comprising a rigid gangway of...
4359946 Elevated downhill transport system  
An elevated downhill transport system is provided with a cable system and appropriate towers to support the cable along a variable downhill course. A single cable only, being necessary, a cable...
4341286 Fire escape improvement  
An improved, self-storing, telescoping fire pole which can be thrust manually, mechanically, or electrically out and away from a building at an angle, to an actuated position to provide a slide...
4294331 Method and system for escaping from an offshore drilling platform  
Improvements in a system for escaping from an offshore drilling or production platform in an emergency situation which includes a stable floating structure forming a safe haven anchored near but at...
4280593 Diagonal elevator  
A diagonal elevator adapted to move in an inclined path between a lower first station and an upper second station spaced vertically and horizontally from the first station, including an elevator...
4122917 Fire rescue equipment  
Fire rescue equipment for mounting on the roof of a building which includes a boom which is rotatably mounted on the roof for swinging movement over the edge of the roof and on which boom there is...
4111281 Building front rope lift  
A building front rope lift for rescuing persons in particular subject to fire hazards in tall buildings comprises a lift cage to which a first roller is secured and which is suspended from one end...
4056167 Emergency elevator  
Apparatus for automatically escaping from a derrick comprises a chamber movable along a cable attached at one end to said derrick, and an automatically releasable system for holding the chamber at...
4050542 Mobile rescue apparatus  
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...
3970287 Guide block for a cable  
A guide block of the open breach type particularly adapted for use in connection with a vertically disposed cable. The guide block includes two U-shaped hand plates fixed in parallelism relative...
3880254 Escape boom  
An escape device and method is provided for use with offshore rigs as a means for men to get off of the rig, while at the same time ending up at some distance from the rig, and providing a...
3826335 PERSONNEL/LOAD CARRYING SYSTEM  
An apparatus system for moving personnel and/or other loads from one elevation point to another. The apparatus system includes a carrier traversing an inclined carrying line secured between higher...
3568795 EMERGENCY ESCAPE SYSTEM  
An automatic braking device for preattachment to a cable connected between high and low elevational points to provide an emergency escape system. The braking device and cable are so arranged that...
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