US287856A

US287856A - paesels

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Publication number: US287856A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-11-06
Anticipated expiration: 1900-11-06

Description

('No Model.)

W. O. PARSELS.

FIRE -ESCAPE.

N0;' 28'7,856. Patented Nov. 6, 1883.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM c. PARSELS, on ELLENVILLE, NEW YORK.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 'Letters Patent No. 287,856, dated November 6, 1883.

Application filed February 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. 0. PARSELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ellenville, in the county of Ulster and State of New York, have .invented a new and useful Iniprovement in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is aspecification. 1 I

The object of my invention is to furnish a light, compact, and strong fire-escape, which metal tube with the peculiar and continual binding surface on the rope to be used in connection with said tube, as hereinafter described. I

The figure represents a vertical section, where all the parts of my invention are seen. Spindle 11 operates against the tongue 4, being regulated by wheel 2. To increase or lessen the friction against the head or tube 5, I use a firm flax rope, 8. t

6 is a handle cast with the tubeor head as a whole. 7 is a cover, which closes in tongue 4,

which same has a concave face which partly I spans rope 8. 9 is a ring,which slides around handle 6, and will hang near either end of tube 5, to snap the belt 3 fast to. 10 10 are the screws, which hold the cover 7 fast to tube 5.

The operation of my improved fire-escape is as follows: Make fast one end of rope to bedstead or anything else that 'will resist ones weight. Then (by having the tube near the. end of rope made fast) cast out the rope to the ground, slide the tube to the window and screw it tight, encirclethe body closeunder the arms with belt 3, and snap it in ring 9. Slide out window with face toward the building, then make descent by loosening tension by wheel 2, whichlets the tube slide over the rope 8. Trips from high buildings can'be repeated by different persons by drawing the escape up again after one has made the descent, and

throwing out the end of rope first made fast, and making fast the end first thrown out, for when the ring 9 slides around handle 6 the escape is in the same position as at first. Should a fainted person, or child not capable of regu- 'ters Patent, is

The combination of tongue 4, head ortube 5, and wheel 2, spindle 11, rope 8, and strap 3, with loose ring 9, all the parts being constructed and operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.

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