Apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency

• US 20040118635A1
• Filed: 12/19/2002
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pei-Chun Sun, Shin-Shing Sun
• Original Assignee: Pei-Chun Sun, Shin-Shing Sun
• Inventors: Sun, Shin-Shing, Sun, Pei-Chun
• Application Number:
  US10/322,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20040118635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 182/142
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 1/02 by making use of rescue cages, bags, or the like elevators, escalators or moving walkways B66B
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 1/06 by making use of rope-lowering devices capstans, winches B66D

Abstract

An apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency includes a car member, a pivotal arm disposed on a top floor of a building, first and second motors disposed on the top floor and controllable with control units, and first, second and third steel ropes. The first rope is connected to the first motor at one end, and is passed over first and second pulleys fitted to the arm and joined to the car member at the other end. The second and the third ropes are connected to the second motor at first ends, respectively passed over third and fourth pulleys fitted to the arm, and passed through respective pairs of guiding rings of the car member and secured to the ground at second ends so that movement the car member is made stable and smooth by the second and the third ropes.

Claims

1. An apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency, comprising

a plurality of control units;

a car member provided for people to ride on;

the car member having two pairs of holed guiding members joined thereto;

a pivotal arm disposed on a top floor of a building;

the arm being capable of pivoting to an in-use position leaning against a wall of the top floor;

the pivotal arm having first, second, third, and fourth pulleys fitted thereto;

first and second motors disposed on the top floor and controllable with the control units;

a first steel rope connected to the first motor at one end;

other end of the first steel rope being passed over the first and the second pulleys, and joined to the car member; and

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second and third steel ropes;

the second and the third steel ropes being connected to the second motor at first ends, passed over respective ones of the third and the fourth pulleys, and passed through respective pairs of gliding members at second ends;

the second ends of the second and the third steel ropes being secured to a ground adjacent to the building so that the car member can be moved up and down along the second and the third steel ropes in front of the building for evacuating people from the building.

2. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car member has a stepping board fitted to each of corresponding widows of the building for providing people with access to the car member.

3. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car member has safety ropes connected thereto for people riding in the car member to the around them with.

4. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein supporting members are fitted to the wall of the top floor of the building for the arm to lean against when the arm is pivoted to the in-use position.

5. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motors are fixedly disposed on top of a water tank.

6. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control units are arranged on the top floor, each of other floors of the building, and the ground respectively.

7. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car member has a curved shape on a side thereof that is faced with the building.

8. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car member has a plurality of brakes fitted thereto.

9. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm is comprised of a single rod part.

10. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm is comprised of a plurality of rod parts.

11. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm is made to have a substantially Y shape.

12. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car member has a door and stepping board, which can be pivoted between a substantially vertical closed position and a substantially laid-down opened position.

13. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 5, wherein a bottom of the water tank is fixedly connected to board fixed to the top floor.

14. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 5, wherein the arm is pivoted to a pivotal member, and the water tank and the pivotal member are equipped with wheels on bottoms, and disposed on respective rails to be mobile.

15. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 10, wherein the plural rod parts of the arm have a plurality of connecting rods connected thereto.

16. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 15, wherein one of the connecting rods is connected to lower ends of the rod parts and positioned horizontal, and is passed through a spring.

17. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 11, wherein the Y-shaped arm is made to consist of a plurality of separable parts capable of being joined together with screws.

18. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 12, wherein the car member is provided with two locking elements, each of which includes a movable male part fixed to the door and stepping board, and a stationary female part connected to the lateral wall portions;

the movable male parts being engaged with respective stationary female parts to prevent the door and stepping board from being opened accidentally when the door and stepping board is in the closed position.

19. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 12, wherein the car member has steel ropes each connected to both a lateral side of the car member and the door and stepping board for limiting movement of the door and stepping board when the door and stepping board is opened.

20. The apparatus for evacuating people from a high building in emergency as claimed in claim 12, wherein the car member has limiting rods, each of which is pivoted to an inner side of the door and stepping board at a first end, and slidably passed through a pivotal unit at a second end;

the pivotal units being arranged on respective lateral inner sides of the car member;

the second ends of the limiting rods being formed with stopping blocks for preventing the limiting rods from falling off the pivotal units so that range of movement of the door and stepping board is limited when the door and stepping board is being opened.