Emergency rope bail-out bag
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsMichael Schubert, Douglas Sloan, Robert West, Alan W. Schierenbeck
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Abstract
An emergency rope bail-out bag (10) is provided for use and wear by a firefighter or other first responder or emergency rescuer, the bag (10) including a main body (12) for stowing a rope (28), an escape hook (26), and a rappelling device (37); and a tear-away flap (14) that can be grasped with a single hand of a user and pulled away from the main body (12) so as to expose the escape hook (26), the rappelling device (37), and the rope (28) for rapid deployment in an emergency.
Claims15
An emergency rope bail-out bag for use by a firefighter or other first responder or emergency rescuer, the bail-out bag comprising:
- a length of rope;
- a rappelling device;
- an escape hook;
- a main body having separate storage compartments for each of the length of rope, the rappelling device, and the escape hook;
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- a primary flap that is configured to move:
- (a) from a stow position wherein the storage compartments are covered so as to retain the length of rope, the rappelling device, and the escape hook in a stowed condition in their respective storage compartments;
- and (b) to a deploy position as an incident of which the storage compartments are caused to be exposed so as to allow deployment of the escape hook, rappelling device, and rope by a user, wherein the main body defines a cavity having an open end, and further comprising a divider flap located to divide the cavity into a first storage compartment of the separate storage compartments in which the length of rope is stored and a second storage compartment of the separate storage compartments in which the rappelling device is stored, wherein the main body has an exterior surface at which a third storage compartment of the separate storage compartments for the escape hook is defined, wherein the primary flap in the stow position overlays the third storage compartment for the escape hook.
An emergency rope bail-out bag for use by a firefighter or other first responder or emergency rescuer, the bail-cut bag comprising:
- a main body defining an interior cavity having an open end;
- a divider flap located in the cavity and formed into a AU″ shaped portion so as to divide the cavity into a first storage compartment to store a length of rope and a second storage compartment to store a rappelling device;
- a containment flap movable between a stowed position wherein the containment flap extends across the open end of the cavity to cover the second storage location and a deployed position wherein the second storage location is opened to allow a rappelling device stored therein to be accessed;
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- a primary flap that is movable from a stow position to a deploy position, the primary flap and the containment flap fastened to each other so that the containment flap moves to the deployed position in response to the movement for the primary flap from the stow position to the deploy position, wherein the main body has an exterior surface where a third storage compartment stores an escape hook, and wherein the primary flap in the stow position overlays the third storage compartment.
A method for stowing and deploying a rope, rappelling device, and escape hook, the method comprising the steps of:
- locating a rope, a rappelling device, and an escape hook in specific preselected compartments on a user with the rope, rappelling device and escape hook covered at their respective compartments;
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- grasping a single flap and moving the single flap from a stow position to a deploy position as an incident of which a plurality of additional flaps releasably connected to the single flap are released from the single flap to expose the rope the rappelling device and the escape hook for deployment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.