Patent Application
20240278042
The present invention relates to an escape structure, and more particularly to one that provides a secured escape space for an escaping person, so that the escaping person slides down alternatively along two slide bars in the escape space to fulfill the purpose of smooth and safe descending, in a falling prevented manner, for escape.
The change of living style makes people living together, causing excessive crowdedness in the living environment. Moreover, there are buildings in which various entertainment and dining facilities have been set up, while devoid of excellent escape equipment. All these lead to potential threats hiding everywhere.
Recently, numerous catastrophic fires occurred, causing severe loss of lives and property, this being of great sorrow. Most of the reasons for lives losing in a fire are that the first five minutes for escape are not correctly used, leading to dying of choke. For various sorts of escape equipment are commonly used currently, the operation is excessively complicated, or operation cannot be properly carried out due to panic. In addition, such escape equipment often has a very low transportation efficiency and it often becomes slow no aid to urgent for public facility, and may become useless for buildings of relatively large heights.
In view of the above, the known escape equipment has various defects and blind spots in the design thereof, and the structure is not perfect. Thus, it is desired to have an escape structure that features high mobility, quick escape, requiring no specific skill, and synchronous use by multiple person in multiple floors for escape, and requiring no use of special tools.
An objective of the present invention is to provide an escape structure that allows an escaping person to slides down alternatively along two slide bars in a secured escape space to achieve smooth and safe descending, in a falling prevented manner, for escape.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention provides an escape structure that is applicable to an external wall of a building. The escape structure comprises at least two slide bars, a plurality of foot board units, and a surround cover unit, wherein the slide bars are mounted to the external wall of the building and the two slide bars are spaced from each other by a distance; the plurality of foot board units are mounted to the slide bars, and the foot board units are arranged on the two slide bars in an alternate manner; and the surround cover unit surrounds the slide bars to form an escape space, and one side of the surround cover unit corresponds to an escaping site of the building for allowing an escaping person to enter and be constrained in the escape space.
When a disaster (such as fire) occurs, an escaping person moves into the escape space, and then follows the two slide bars to slide down in an alternate manner. During the course of sliding down in an alternate manner, the foot board units allow the feet of the escaping person to stand thereon to thereby achieve an effect of elastic cushioning and serve as intermediate staying sites to achieve the purposes of falling prevention and smooth and safe descending to escape.
The present invention provides the following advantages: high mobility, quick escape, no special skill required, use for synchronous escape for multiple floors and multiple persons, no use of special tool, assisting the weak to synchronously escape, simple structure, no midway failure, being impossible for falling, an escaping person being allowed to move back to a building (structure) after escaping from a fire floor, eyesight view being closed to reduce an escaping person's fear for high sky.
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The slide bars 10 are mounted on the external wall of the building 90 and a distance is kept between the two slide bars 10.
The foot board units 20 are arranged on the slide bars 10, and the foot board units 20 are arranged in an alternate manner on the two slide bars 10.
The surround cover unit 30 surrounds the slide bars 10 to form an escape space, and one side of the surround cover unit 30 corresponds to an escape site of the building 90 to allow an escaping person to get into and becomes constrained in the escape space.
In an embodiment, each of the slide bars 10 is formed in a sectioned arrangement at a site thereof mounted on the foot board units 20, and each of the foot board units 20 comprises a bottom plate 21, an elastic body 22, and a foot board 23, wherein the bottom plate 21 comprises a joining tube 211 mounted thereto by penetrating therethrough, such that upper-end and lower-end parts of the joining tube 211 respectively form an upper section portion and lower section portion respectively projecting toward upper and lower sides of the bottom plate 21, wherein the upper section portion and the lower section portion of the joining tube 211 are respectively joined to separate sections of the slide bar 10. The elastic body 22 is arranged on the bottom plate 21. The foot board 23 is fit over the upper section portion of the joining tube 211 is arranged on the elastic body 22, so that when the foot board 23 receives a pressing force acting thereon, the elastic body 22 is set in a rebounding form by means of the spring force thereof. The bottom plate 21 is fixedly mounted, at one side thereof, to the external wall of the building 90, so as to thereby fix the slide bar 10 to the external wall of the building 90.
In this way, the foot board unit 20 is made in a modularized structure, which can be easily operated and efficiently combinable with the slide bars 10. And, when an escaping person steps on the foot board 23, in a manner of pressing downward from an upper side during escape, an elastic cushioning effect can be induced to reduce the influence of gravity acting on the feet to protect the feet from being hurt by stepping through directly pressing.
In an embodiment, the foot board 23 is mounted through fitting, in a sleeving manner, over the upper section portion of the joining tube 211 at a location distant from a center thereof.
In this way, the slide bar 10 are arranged at a location that is adjacent to an edge of the foot board 23 to reduce hinderance on the foot board 23 by obstacle, meaning the foot board 23 can have a relatively large stepping space that allow the feet of the escaping person to step thereon and press downward.
In an embodiment, the elastic body 22 is selected as a compression spring.
In an embodiment, the escaping site of the building 90 can be a balcony 91, and a control door 92 that is selectively openable/closable is provided on the balcony 91, so that upon opening, the control door 92 is set in connection with and makes access to the surround cover unit 30.
In this way, when no disaster occurs in regular days, the control door 92 can be set in a locked and thus closed condition and can be unlocked in case of disasters to allow the control door 92 to open so that an escaping person may easily get into the surround cover unit 30 for escaping away from the disaster site.
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The above provides a description of constituent components of the present invention, and a way of assembling thereof. In the following, an example of operation and use of the present invention, and features and efficacy thereof, will be described.
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As such, at least the following advantages can be achieved:
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As such, the present invention may use only a narrow corner of the external wall of the building 90, provided the external wall of the building 90 has a proper space for installation two or multiple slide bars 10 (including associated assisting devices), and this is sufficient to ensure and allow an escaping person to follow the two slide bars 10 to safely descend in an alternate manner.
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In an embodiment, the counterweight water bag 43 is provided, on a surface thereof, with a water level scale for observation of the water level in the counterweight water bag 43.
As such, the counterweight device 40 may function as a slow descending structure. An escaping person may use hand-hold the pull ring 441 to pull and move the counterweight water bag 43, and the counterweight water bag 43 provides a slow descending force that resists the downward movement caused by the gravity of the escaping person so as to achieve an effect of slow descending and reduce the sense of fear and enhance safety.
Further, the escaping person may adjust, according to the personal body weight, the corresponding weight of the counterweight water bag 43. In other words, if the body weight of the escaping person is relatively light, by operating the water pumping activation switch 431, the water pump 451 can be activated for a function of water pumping to draw a portion of the water from the counterweight water bag 43 through the water pumping tube 45 to the regulation water bag 44, in order to reduce the weight of the counterweight water bag 43 to correspond to the relatively light body weight of the escaping person.
Further, the water return valve 442 can be operated to have water return from the regulation water bag 44 back to the counterweight water bag 43 to adjust and increase the weight of the counterweight water bag 43 in order to correspond a relatively heavy body weight of an escaping person.
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In this way, an escaping person having a weak hand holding power, such as children, the aged, and women, may selectively attach, as desired, the suspension belt 46 to the body so that there is no need to apply any force by the hand, and this also provides the escaping person with an effect of slow descending and reducing fear and enhancing safety.
In summarization of the above description, the present invention provides at least the following advantages:
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 112106466 | Feb 2023 | TW | national |
