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US 2013/0219810 A1Published application
Evacuation System Applicable to Buildings
OwnerAntonio Garcia-Valdecasas Canetinventor
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Abstract
Evacuation system applicable to buildings, in particular the upper floors of high-rise buildings. The evacuation system presents a series of characteristics intended to provide the necessary means for occupants of the upper floors to step away horizontally from the façade or wall of the building and jump out using a parachute, thereby increasing the chances of survival in an emergency evacuation.
Claims2
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Evacuation system applicable to buildings, in particular the upper floors of high-rise buildings;
- wherein it comprises on said upper floors:
- a. fixed frames, assembled at floor level in openings defined on at least one façade or exterior wall of the aforementioned upper floors of the buildings;
- b. windows assembled on the respective fixed frames by means of respective horizontal axis, fitted so that they correspond to the inner edges of the windows, allowing the windows to move on hinges between a vertical closed position and a horizontal open position;
- c. folding straps that connect the sides of the windows with the fixed frames, and which, in the deployed position, act as the retaining element of the windows in the horizontal open position, forming protective side rails;
- d. mechanisms for lowering the windows connected to a driving device placed within a security cabinet accessible from the inside of the corresponding floor;
- e. automatically opening parachute containers, located on the upper floors of the building;
- and
- f. the windows, when in the horizontal open position, form walkways, delimitated laterally by the rails formed by the folding straps, for the passage of persons, provided with the corresponding parachutes towards a jump point separated from the façade or exterior wall of the building.
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