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8122999 Multistory building fast escape and rescue device  
An escape and rescue device used in a multistory building during a terrorist threat or a fire to: a) evacuate a person or persons attached to an expandable disc support with an attachment that is...
8066108 Vessel escape slides and associated equipment  
Systems for inhibiting installation of emergency escape slides behind bustles (or other covers) when removable safety pins (or similar objects) remain intact are addressed. Versions of the systems...
7996942 Rotating gangway support platform  
A crew transfer system for transferring personnel from a vessel to a stationary platform, such as an oil rig, is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, the system includes a ramp that is...
7789761 Recreational stairway slide  
A stairway slide assembly including an anchoring approach pad at the top of the stairway, an intermediate inflatable slide section for overlying the stairway steps and an deceleration section at...
7681515 Life raft launcher  
A life raft canister is launched from a below deck doorway. A launcher is activated and pneumatically opens a below deck door, exposing the doorway. The same inflation tank inflates an elongated...
7556124 Device for evacuating people from a building  
A device for evacuating people from a building (2). The device includes a part that can be placed into a functional position from a non-functional position. In the functional position, the device...
7494419 Indoor stair slide for transporting the handicapped between floors and/or for joyful rides  
A stair slide having a longitudinally extending inflatable body with an upper surface and a lower surface. The body is configured so that when inflated, the lower surface conforms to steps of a...
7490795 Aircraft evacuation slide with primary gas relief valve  
An emergency evacuation slide system includes a control valve having a normally-open vent that closes after a predetermined period of time calculated to vent excess inflation gas produced by the...
7467764 Fuselage mounted evacuation slide system  
An inflatable evacuation slide system includes a slide pack that is ejected from its enclosure by means of an ejection bag, which inflates rapidly to force the evacuation slide out of the...
7188705 Emergency evacuation system for high-rise buildings  
An evacuation system for high-rise buildings includes an evacuation tube that extends vertically from an entrance on an upper floor to ground level, and a carrier that descends freely through the...
7111436 Lifesaving system for buildings  
The lifesaving system for buildings of the present invention includes a tubular device having opened crowns or circular radial curved crowns attached to an inside wall of the tubular device, the...
7090168 Catenary girt arrangement for emergency evacuation slides  
A girt assembly for releasably connecting an evacuation slide to an aircraft includes superimposed flexible panels that are continuous at a pair of spaced connection points for connection with the...
7048092 Helical ramp life-preserver  
The present Patent of invention “HELICAL RAMP LIFE-PRESERVER” refers to a model of helical ramp, aimed for collective use, for immediate rescue of lives subjected to a probable fire, to be used in ...
7025173 Rescue system for high-rise buildings  
A system for the evacuation of individuals trapped in multiple story buildings by gliding down a rescue sleeve. The sleeve (12) is composed of sections (20), each section being made of a sheet...
6994182 Escape device for building  
A safety device for escaping from building, which includes a flexible tube-shaped object (8), interval installing elastic apparatus (6) longitudinal along the flexible tube-shaped object (8), a...
6957716 Emergency stairway escape apparatus for wheelchairs  
An emergency stairway escape apparatus permitting wheelchairs to egress a multi-story building via a stairway comprises a ramp platform of sufficient width to cover at least half of each stair...
6892857 Fire escape  
Fire escape apparatus for egress from a multi-storied building structure from an upper level thereof is provided. The apparatus includes an elongate mesh tube, the tube being substantially longer...
6877696 Evacuation slide with leading edge spoiler  
An inflatable evacuation slide is presented that includes an aerodynamic spoiler to kill the lift caused by air flowing laterally over the slide. The slide preferably comprises a fabric sliding...
6877698 Aircraft evacuation slide inflation system using a stored liquified gas capable of thermal decomposition  
A system for deploying an aircraft emergency evacuation slide or other inflatable device utilizes an inflation gas that is stored in a partially liquified state. The inflation gas includes a...
6851517 Emergency tower escape system for a building having multiple floors  
An emergency tower system for a building having multiple floors. A plurality of bridgewalks extends from a plurality of towers to the multiple floors off the building, respectively. A plurality of...
6814183 Extensible evacuation slide  
An inflatable evacuation slide system (10) is selectively deployable in either a foreshortened or lengthened configuration. The foot end (50) of the escape slide (12) includes a compartment (92)...
6799741 Evacuation slide having trapezoidal outline  
An inflatable evacuation slide for emergency evacuation of an aircraft comprises a pair of main support tubes supporting a flexible sliding surface. The main support tubes taper from a widest point...
6698545 Escape slide  
An aircraft life raft assembly for use as a deployable escape slide from an egress opening of an aircraft. The escape slide is a longitudinally extending structure with a center line that extends...
6695096 Evacuation slide having toe end transverse support tube  
An inflatable evacuation slide includes a feature for propelling disembarking passengers onto their feet at the toe end of the slide. In one embodiment, the slide comprises a fabric sliding surface...
6684978 Building evacuation system  
A building evacuation system in which at least one vertical evacuation chute is provided for each floor of a building to be evacuated. A plurality of collapsible buckets are stored on each floor...
6651934 Rescue system for rescuing persons by air  
A rescue system for rescuing persons by air, particularly from tall buildings or airplanes, has a receptacle with at least one parachute or paraglider. A harness for the parachute or paraglider is...
6598703 Externally concealable, modular high-rise emergency evacuation apparatus with pre-qualified egress  
An externally concealable modular high-rise emergency evacuation apparatus that enables people, including the injured, the elder or drabled persons to escape entrapment from or to bypass the levels...
6585081 Fire escape device  
A fire escape device for escaping a building through a widow during a fire includes a platform having a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge wherein the first and second edges...
6581334 High strength T-joint for inflatable tube structures  
A high strength T-joint for inflatable tubular is formed by forming a butt joint between the end of a first two tubular member and the side wall of a second tubular member. The opening in the side...
6574925 Emergency stairwell for multistory buildings  
An emergency stairwell for a building having multiple floors comprising: at least one landing associated with each the floor, each landing increasing in width in at least one horizontal direction...
6536715 Inflatable evacuation slide with arch support  
An inflatable evacuation device includes an inflatable slide portion and an inflatable arch-shaped support portion for supporting the inflatable slide portion. The inflatable slide portion has a...
6467575 Collapsible spiral-tube escape way  
A collapsible spiral-tube escape way includes a plurality of spiral-tube units supported on tube-supporting frames. In a first embodiment of the escape way, the tube-supporting frames in a standby...
6454220 Evacuation slide with toe end center support member  
An inflatable evacuation slide includes a feature to ensure against buckling of the sliding surface under load. In one embodiment, the slide is made from a fabric sliding surface stretched between...
6443259 Passive deployment readiness indicator for aircraft evacuation slide  
The present invention comprises an inflatable over-the-wing evacuation slide having a readiness indicator the meaning of which is intuitively obvious to an untrained person. In one embodiment, the...
6408982 Emergency passenger evacuation chute and chute/slide combination for aircraft  
A passenger evacuation arrangement for emergency use in aircraft, and in particular for evacuating passengers from an upper deck or decks of a multi-deck aircraft safely to ground level, which is...
6330932 Frame for rescue device  
An improved rescue device for escape from buildings having more than a single story where the device is portable and may be deployed quickly in the event of an emergency. The rescue device has a...
6298970 Inflatable evacuation slide with adjustable decelerator  
An inflatable evacuation slide for use in aircraft, watercraft, buildings, and other structures, includes a first inflatable tubular member, a second inflatable tubular member spaced from the first...
6108988 Spiral climb in surrounding enclosure  
A modular spiral staircase within a surrounding enclosure for indoor playground equipment is disclosed. The modular spiral staircase includes individual stair treads arranged in a spiral pattern...
6102762 Marine escape systems  
A marine escape system has a passage extending between an evacuation point on a vessel and an inflatable life raft. The passage is arranged vertically and is connected to a succession of hoops. The...
6098747 Rescue chute  
An escape device of the present invention for enabling people to escape and emergency personnel to remove injured people from burning or damaged buildings comprising a frame that has a normally...
6082491 Inflatable slide for attachment to a house window  
An inflatable slide for attachment to a house window including an elongated self-inflating slide portion having an upper end, an enlarged lower end, and an intermediate extent therebetween. The...
5975467 Inflatable evacuation slide  
An inflatable evacuation slide for an aircraft comprising upper and lower sliding regions interconnected by an intermediate sliding region and including a flexible sliding support surface. An...
5967254 Energy dissipating emergency evacuation slide  
An emergency evacuation slide has an internal energy dissipation characteristic so that the slide is especially suitable for evacuation of persons from a relatively great height. By dissipating the...
5906340 Inflatable escape slide assembly  
An escape slide and life raft assembly for evacuating personnel from an aircraft, with the slide having side tubes and cross tubes along with a slide panel that extends the full length of the...
5875868 Inflatable evacuation slide  
An inflatable evacuation slide for an aircraft consists of first and second longitudinal support beams, upper and lower transverse support members and a flexible sliding support surface. The first...
5871066 Rescue device  
A rescue device for escape from buildings having more than a single story where the device is portable and may be deployed quickly in the event of an emergency. The rescue device has a lightweight...
5820773 Escape slide with support tube assembly  
An aircraft slide assembly used for evacuating personnel from an aircraft or other elevated structure having a longitudinally extending inflatable escape slide and a stabilizing support tube...
5806624 Escape system  
The escape system comprises a series of wall openings along a building wall and a stocking of mesh cloth material extending along the wall. The stocking has a series of access openings to the...
5738305 Inflation system  
An inflation system for use in inflating an inflatable foldable escape slide or foldable container for use in evacuating personnel from an aircraft, platform or other device in cases of...
5620058 Emergency evacuation system  
An emergency evacuation system uses three primary concepts--Retarded Free Fall, Temporary Structures and Energetics--to provide for rapid, safe rescue. An inflatable descent tube with entry ports...
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