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US 8,151,940 B2Granted
Evacuation systems and methods
AssigneeEscape Rescue Systems, Ltd.
InventorsTal Gordon, Eyal Moses
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Abstract
An evacuation system for a building including at least one selectably lowerable, collapsible, generally vertical transporter arranged for selectable communication with at least one floor of a building and a controller for selectably lowering at least one platform of the transporter from the at least one floor to a level at which egress of persons may safely occur.
Claims29
An evacuation system for a building comprising:
- at least one lowerable, multiple-platform, generally vertical transporter arranged for selectable communication with multiple floors of a building for simultaneous loading of persons onto multiple platforms of said transporter from said multiple floors;
- and
- a controller operative to position said multiple platforms at said multiple floors for simultaneous loading of said persons onto said multiple platforms of said transporter from said multiple floors and operative to subsequently lower said multiple platforms of said at least one transporter, when loaded with said persons, from said multiple floors to at least one egress level at which egress of said persons may safely occur.
A method for evacuation of a building comprising:
- positioning at least one lowerable, multiple-platform, generally vertical transporter in communication with multiple floors of a building for simultaneous loading of persons onto multiple platforms of said transporter from said multiple floors;
- and
- lowering said multiple platforms of said at least one transporter, when loaded with said persons, from said multiple floors to at least one egress level at which egress of said persons may safely occur.
A method for evacuation of a building comprising:
- positioning at least one lowerable, mutually spacable, multiple-platform, generally vertical transporter in communication with multiple floors of a building for simultaneous loading of persons onto multiple platforms of said transporter from said multiple floors;
- and
- lowering said multiple platforms of said at least one transporter, when loaded with said persons, from said multiple floors to at least one egress level at which egress of said persons may safely occur;
- and
- reducing mutual spacing between said multiple platforms following said egress of said persons.
2 more elements
A method for simultaneously lifting people to multiple levels of a building comprising:
- positioning at least one liftable, multiple-platform, generally vertical transporter in communication with at least one ingress level of a building for loading of persons onto multiple platforms of said transporter from said at least one ingress level;
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- lifting said multiple platforms of said at least one transporter, when loaded with said persons, to multiple floors of said building for simultaneous unloading of persons from said multiple platforms of said transporter to said multiple floors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.