Life saving device for the home

• US 8,708,101 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2013
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Patrick Bambrick, Mary Katherine Bambrick
• Original Assignee: David Patrick Bambrick, Mary Katherine Bambrick
• Inventors: Bambrick, David Patrick, Bambrick, Mary Katherine
• Primary Examiner(s): CHIN SHUE, ALVIN C
• Application Number:
  US13/815,151
• Publication Number:
  US 20130213737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 182/70, 182/18, 182/48
• US Class Current: 182/48
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 1/20 by making use of sliding-ropes, sliding-poles or chutes, e.g. hoses, pipes, sliding-grooves, sliding-sheets

Abstract

The present invention relates to a life-saving apparatus and method for escaping from a second floor or a third floor of a burning building, wherein the life-saving apparatus includes a container, a set of wheels, an inflatable pillow, an inflatable slide, a set of canisters full of compressed gas, and a set of activators operatively connected to the canisters.

Claims

1. A life-saving device for the home comprising:

a container having a volume, wherein the container comprises a bottom, four sides, a top and a top cover;

wherein the top cover is operatively connected to a side of the container by at least one hinge;

an inflatable pillow wherein the inflatable pillow is positioned at the bottom of and within the container, and wherein the pillow, when fully inflated, fills substantially the entire volume of the container;

a first canister including a compressed gas, wherein the first canister is operatively connected to the container, and wherein the first canister is operatively connected to the pillow;

a visible first activator wherein the first activator is operatively connected to the first canister, wherein the first activator is positioned at the top of the container, and wherein the first activator is visible once the top cover of the container is opened;

a folded inflatable slide having a proximal and distal end, wherein the slide is operatively connected to the inflatable pillow at its proximal end and, positioned on top of the inflatable pillow and within the container;

and wherein the slide, when fully inflated, extends to the ground from an upper window of a building;

a second canister including a compressed gas, wherein the second canister is operatively connected to the container, and wherein the second canister is operatively connected to the inflatable slide at its proximal end; and

a hidden second activator wherein the second activator is operatively connected to the second canister;

wherein the second activator is operatively connected to and adjacent to the proximal end of the inflatable slide; and

wherein both the second activator and the second canister are located on top of the inflatable pillow and beneath the folded inflatable slide within the container;

wherein the second activator and the second canister are located outside of the container and in view when the inflatable pillow is fully inflated and the inflatable slide is pushed out of the window.

2. The life-saving device according to claim 1 wherein the container is movable.

3. The life-saving device according to claim 2 wherein the movable container comprises at least two wheels, and wherein the at least two wheels are located at the bottom of the container.

4. The life-saving device according to claim 1 wherein the inflatable elongated slide is operatively connected to the inflatable pillow by a gripping fabric.