Landar emergency evacuation system for high-rise abodes
OwnerValentine Egbejimbainventor
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An emergency escape system for high-rise building includes a launcher installed in a launch room/station of a given floor in a skyscraper and suspended by a spring-loaded reel of cable which is counterbalanced by the weights of the launcher which has mechanisms for floor retraction and movement control incorporated to it, and a descending ride unit on a guide rail which engages with the launcher and which conveys an escapee or a load whose weight upsets the equilibrium of the two opposing forces and while the ride unit disengages from the launcher when the launcher has descended through the retracted floor, the launcher returns to the launch station to maintain the equilibrium of the weight balance, leaving the descending ride unit to continue its motion down the shaft with its human cargo/es until brought to rest by a brake system of arresting cables with or without brake linings and drums; before safely ejecting the escapee/s from the ride unit away from the shaft.
An emergency escape device comprising a launcher on guide rails suspended on a spring loaded cable(s), designed to open a retractile floor for a descending ride unit, the said ride unit conveying person(s), or a load, down the shaft for the purpose of evacuation of a high-rise building or any aloft position in times of need or emergency.
A gravity-based emergency escape system comprising a cabin mounted on guide rails for the purpose of evacuating occupants of high-rise abodes, such a cabin having an arresting appendage/rod positioned to impact series of arresting cables placed at intervals across its path of descent, each cable installed with a mechanism to work it off the arresting appendage/rod thereby making the cabin to descend with a substantially constant velocity from the launch station on the skyscraper to the ground station below where it is “ejected” by a mobile platform from the guide rails to clear the way for other descending emergency escape cabins following behind from the launch station.
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