US1134468A - Fire-escape. - Google Patents

Description

E. LEMONS.

FIRE ESCAPE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.25, 1913.

1 1 4,46 Patented Apr 6, 1915.

Attorneys IHE NORRIS PETERS CO.. F'HOTU-LITHO WASHINGTON, D C.

ELIAS LEMON S, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed April 25, 1913. '1 Serial No. 763,686.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIAS LEMONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Fire-Escape, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to fire escapes, and aims to provide a novel and improved structure of that character.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a novel fire escape embodying zigchutes or slideways which maybe attached to a building, or which may be disposed or laid upon an ordinary Zig-zag stair lire escape, so as to communicate with the respective windows, and to permit the occupants of the building to enter the fire escape at the various windows and to then slide to the ground in a sitting posture.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a fire escape of the nature indicated embodying coverings or protectors for the several chutes and platforms, the coverings or protectors cooperating with each other to provide a continuous passage throughout the length of the fire escape, and having openings registering with the respective windows, doors or openings in the building through which the occupants may pass into the fire escape.

With the foregoing general objects outlined and with other objects in view, which will be apparent as the description proceeds, the present invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that cianges in the precise embodiment of the invention can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing, wherein 2- Figure l is a fragmental elevation of the fire escape as applied to a building. Fig. 2 is a fragmental plan view of the fire escape, the coverings or protectors being partially broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 83 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an elevation disclosing how the fire escape may be folded or collapsed prior to erection.

In carrying out the invention, reference being had in detail to the drawing, there is provided a plurality of platforms or land ings 1 for the several floors of the building, the platforms being arranged in a vertically staggered manner and being disposed adjoining the respective windows, it being understood, of course, that the fire escape may be extended to any suitable height. The platforms 1 are provided with the upturned sides 2 along and coextensive with their remote edges, and with the upturned ends 3 at their outer ends.

The chutes or slideways 5'are connected at their ends to the adjoining edges of the platforms 1, the chutes being arranged in a zigzag manner, and the alternate ones being attached adjoining the respective ends of the platforms. The chutes or slideways 5 embody the upturned sides 6, so that the chutes are channel shaped in cross section, the ends of the sides or flanges 6 being cut vertically or obliquely relative to the chutes, so as to properly cooperate with the platforms. The chutes 5 are hinged to the adjoining edges of the respective platforms l by means of hinges d, it being noted that the ends of the chutes are open so as to communicate with the platforms, thereby providing or establishing a continuous zig-zagged chute or slideway throughout the length of the fire escape.

Those chutes 5 disposed adjoining the wall of the building or the inner chutes may be conveniently supported by means of brackets 7, and the platforms may be braced, as at 7, while the respective chutes 5 may be connected by braces 7, so as to provide a substantial or rigid structure. It is to be understood, of course, that the chutes or platforms may be supported or braced in any suitable manner, according to the circumstances.

Hand rails 8 are attached to the inner faces of the sides 6 of the chutes, and similar hand rails 8 and 8" are attached to the outer sides and ends of the platforms, in order that the persons passing down the fire escape, may grasp the rails so as to control their movement.

Arched coverings or protectors 9 have the lower edges of their sides secured to the upper edges of the sides 6 of the chutes, this being preferably accomplished by riveting or otherwise securing strips 10 to the edges of the sides 6 of the chutes and clamping the edges of the coverings 9 under the strips 10. The coverings or protectors 9 are preferably constructed of wire mesh 2 i c I 1,134,468

of suitable gage, Which Will permit of vision the chutes 5' being adapted to seat on the I therethrough, but Which prevent persons stairs or inclined ladders connecting the from being crowded or pushed off 'of the landings. The-construction of the present fire escape, it being noted that the entire fire fire escape is such that the same may be escape is closed or covered, as will hereincompactly folded prior to erection, for purafter' appear, to prevent such accidents; v pose of compact storage or shipment, this Similar coverings or protectors 9' are atfeature being illustrated in Fige. It ill tached to the platforms, and also embody be observed that the severalicoverings may outer ends 9*, the inner ends of the co eralso be nested together in a iconvenientmanlngs being open so as to communicate With ner when detached, so as vto permit the the WmdoWs or openings in'the Walls of the chutes to be folded asillustratedcin' Fig. 4, building. The ends of the coverings 9 'a're and in order that theentirefire escapemay "cut vertically soas to properly abut against be stored Withinasmall compass.

the coverings 9 of the platform, the'inner Having thus described the invention, What"? v ordlnary zig-zagged fire'escape nowpreva- -Witnesses:

sides of the coverings 9 being cut away so is'claimed'as new: is i r as to communlcate with the endsof the c A fire'escape structure comprislng a plucoverings 9. Thus, a continuous covering rality of platforms arranged in staggered is provided for the entire fire es cape,'the relation, chutes [arranged in 'zig-Zag order same having openings registering With'the and having theiriends hinged to the adjoin- I Windows. The rear or inner ends of the platform are innerends of the platforms being extended preferablyextended, so as to project to the to communicate With openings in a build- Windows, and in order to permit the respecing, with the chutesspaced from the build tive chutes to be spaced from the Wall of ing. m the building. a i I The advantages incident in" the present as my OWIl, I have hereto aflixedmy signer construction will be apparent from the foreture in the presence of tWo Witnesses. I oin it being observed that the present V i i f ireeecape may be set or disposedupon the 1 WM; HEARNE,

lent, the platforms 1 being adapted to seat JAMES H. KEARNEY.

on the landings of ordinary fire escapes and ing edges of the adjoiningplatforins, the

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