Life saving device for the home

• US 8,973,706 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2014
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• 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
• Application Number:
  US14/120,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20140345969A1
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• Field of Search: 182/48, 182/70, 182/18
• 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 method for escaping a burning building from an upper floor of the burning building, the method comprising:

moving a life-saving device to a position directly underneath a window, wherein the window is selected from the group consisting of a second floor window and a third floor window, wherein the life-saving device comprises 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;

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;

opening the window, wherein the window is opened to a position wide enough to allow a person egress from the window;

securing the life-saving device underneath the opened window;

opening the top of the container in a direction away from the opened window;

pulling the first activator to inflate the inflatable pillow;

pushing the inflatable slide outside the opened window, wherein the second activator and the second canister are located outside of the container and in view and made visible when the inflatable pillow is fully inflated;

pulling the second activator to obtain an inflated slide; and

sliding down the inflated slide.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the securing step compromises pulling Two metal sections at the ends of a metal bar upwardly and outwardly, wherin the metal bar is operably connected to the container;

wherein the container is secured in position such that the container is not pulled out of the opened window upon inflation of the slide.