Detachable fire escape device

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A - Human Necessities

62

B

227/9

A62B 1/14 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1080179

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The specification describes a fire escape device comprising an elongated flexible member having an upper end capable of being anchored with respect to a building structure and having a length to depend to adjacent ground level or other safe level, a slide and sling assembly detachably mounted on the flexible member for longitudinal movement therealong, the assembly includes a slide in the form of a pair of hingedly connected plates provided with facing grooves receiving the flexible member, manually operated screw-threaded means interconnecting the plates for pivoting them towards and away from each other to selectively frictionally grip the flexible member for controlling the rate of descent of the slide along the flexible member, the assembly further includes a projecting mounting block on the lower outer portion of the outer plate below the screw-threaded means and a sling connected to the block to thereby enable a person supported by the sling to manually manipulate the means for pivoting the plates in relation to each other, each of the plates are substantially cruciform in configuration, hinge means interconnect the outer ends of one pair of horizontal arms, the means for pivoting the plates in relation to each other interconnects the outer ends of the opposite pair of horizontal arms and includes a threaded rod hingedly attached to a horizontal arm on one of the plates and a wing nut threaded onto the threaded rod and engaged with the arm of the other of the plates, the wing nut being disposed outwardly of the plate having the mounting block thereon whereby a person supported from the sling connected to the mounting block will have access to the wing nut.

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