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US 8,151,941 B2Granted
Evacuation system for a building including building mounted stabilizing element
AssigneeEscape Rescue Systems, Ltd.
InventorsEyal Moses, Tal Gordon, Andrey Bochkariov
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Abstract
An evacuation system for a building including at least one vertical transporter including multiple platforms arranged for selectable communication with multiple floors of the building for loading of persons onto the multiple platforms and at least one building mounted stabilizing element cooperating with the transporter for stabilizing the transporter against lateral forces.
Claims12
An evacuation system for a building comprising:
- a plurality of vertical transporters, at least one of said plurality of vertical transporters including multiple platforms arranged for selectable communication with multiple floors of said building, for at least partially simultaneous loading of persons onto said multiple platforms from said multiple floors;
- at least one building mounted stabilizing element cooperating with said at least one of said plurality of vertical transporters for stabilizing said multiple platforms against lateral forces;
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- at least one controller operative in an ingress mode of operation to position said multiple platforms simultaneously at different ones of said multiple floors of said building
- said at least one of said plurality of vertical transporters being operative to at least partially simultaneously lower said multiple platforms, when loaded with said persons, along said at least one building mounted stabilizing element, to a level at which egress of persons may safely occur,
- said at least one controller being operative to individually control individual ones of said plurality of vertical transporters wherein multiple ones of said platforms of different transporters may be simultaneously positioned in communication with different groups of multiple floors of said building for simultaneous evacuation loading.
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An evacuation method for emergency evacuation of persons from a building comprising:
- providing a plurality of vertical transporters at least one of said vertical transporters including multiple platforms arranged for selectable communication with multiple floors of said building;
- providing at least one building mounted stabilizing element for stabilizing said multiple platforms against lateral forces;
- positioning said multiple platforms alongside said multiple floors;
- individually controlling individual ones of said plurality of vertical transporters to simultaneously position multiple ones of said platforms of different transporters to be in communication with different groups of multiple floors of said building for simultaneous evacuation loading;
- at least partially simultaneously loading said multiple platforms with persons;
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- operating said at least one of said plurality of transporters to at least partially simultaneously lower said multiple platforms, when loaded with said persons, along said at least one building mounted stabilizing element, to a level at which egress of persons may safely occur.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.