ES1060266U - Evacuation device for fires in buildings and similar (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Evacuation device for fires in buildings and the like, whose purpose is to allow said evacuation through the facade of the buildings, from any window, balcony or similar, characterized by being made up of a plurality of anchors, conveniently fixed at strategically distributed points on the façade, easily accessible, and a plurality of descent equipment, each one materialized in a harness, a rope and a safety or brake through which the harness is suspended from the rope and is scrollable in a controlled way along it. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Fire evacuation device in Buildings and the like.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a device which has been specially designed for the evacuation of a building when it is on fire and there is no possibility of evacuation by normal routes, allowing a rapid descent and safe on the facades, with virtually no limitations on as far as the initial evacuation point is concerned.

The object of the invention is to achieve the parallel descent to the facade of one or more people, using as a way of escape windows, balconies, terraces and verandas and everything This with optimal security guarantees.

The device can be used in buildings, skyscrapers or civil works, both public and private, and in addition to its basic function as an evacuation element people fire, can also be used with others objectives such as calculated element discharges, grips for firefighters, facade cleaning, etc.

Background of the invention

In the preferred scope of practical application of the invention, flames and gases prevent in many cases the exit abroad creating barriers that disable access to stairs, elevators, etc., so that there is no other possibility that the escape through windows, balconies and the like, what which in principle is only feasible in the case of heights very reduced or, at intermediate heights, jumping on tarpaulins or cushions tires, with the presence of firefighters. When heights they are older the escape route is determined in many occasions by the telescopic stairs used by the fire service, presenting as limit the own length that such stairs they can have, while maintaining due stability.

All this brings with it that before the situation of panic that occurs in a fire, many people cannot be rescued and throw themselves into the void, that is to say towards a death practically safe

Description of the invention

The evacuation device that the invention proposes, resolves in a fully satisfactory way this problematic because on the one hand it offers an escape route to people in danger of easy use, and on the other it does so in the proximity of each and every one of those people, so that displacement or search in a building is not required evacuation device since there will always be one "to hand".

More specifically said device is materializes in a plurality of anchors, conveniently distributed by the facade of the building and fixed to it, next to windows, balconies, terraces and the like, that is in points easy access to them, said anchors being properly designed to allow attachment to them of one or more carabiners of any conventional type.

These anchors are complemented by a plurality of descent equipment, whose number can be variable depending on the size and characteristics of the building, the density of population thereof, etc., said descent equipment being properly distributed on the premises, stored in places easily identifiable and accessible.

Each of these teams is materialized in a rope hauled, that is conveniently rolled in a reel supplier of it, appropriate resistance rope for the efforts to be subjected, as is the burden of one or several people, and that by its free limb is finished off in a carabiner for coupling to one of the wall anchors, which has an insurance or "stop" of any kind conventional appropriate, movable or not along the rope to device user criteria, said insurance being conveniently coupled to the user's body through a harness and with the contest also of carabiners.

According to this structuring and in a case emergency, anyone can access a team of descent, placing and conveniently fixing on your body the harness, connecting to it the insurance and in turn this set and to through the carabiner that ends the rope to the nearest anchor of the building, letting itself hang from it and descending on the facade in a controlled way by simply releasing rope through of insurance, at the speed deemed convenient.

The descent can be done simultaneously by several people hanging from the same anchor, so that with a number of suitable devices, evacuation capacity it can be very high, having been planned in any case the possibility of reuse of the device, for which purpose the safe or "stop" incorporates a nylon thread that relates with the carabiner attached to the wall anchor, so that this thread it serves for device recovery once it has been used, that is once the first person has reached the ground, to repeat the described operating cycle as many times as be necessary.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows views in front elevation, in profile and in plan of the anchor that participates in the device of evacuation for fires in buildings and similar that It constitutes the object of the present invention.

Figure 2.- Shows an exploded perspective. of the set of elements that constitute the descent team complementary to the anchor of the previous figure.

Figure 3.- Shows, finally, according to the schematic representation in profile, an example of use device practice on the facade of the building.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as the device that the invention proposes, is constituted from a plurality of anchors (1) as the represented in figure 1, conveniently distributed in the facade (2) of a building such as next to windows or balconies (3), said anchor materializing preferably in a distribution plate (4) with holes (5) for wall mounting by screws or by any other means estimated convenient, sheet in which a handle or bridge (6) to anchor the carabiners (7) belonging to the complementary descent equipment to be hung together with the users thereof, of said anchor (one).

In turn, each descent team materializes in said carabiner (7) that ends a rope (8) in length appropriate to the distance between the fixing point of the anchor (1) and the ground, said rope (8) being integrated in a reel (9) that facilitates both its storage and its use, and settling in it, next to the carabiner (7) an insurance, stop or brake (10) with its corresponding ring (11) for coupling a carabiner (12) with which it attaches to the insurance (10) a harness (13) provided with the corresponding ring (14), logically settling between the ring (11) and the lock (10) and the ring (15) of the carabiner (12), a piece of rope that adequately distances these elements for greater comfort of handling the descent equipment.

It only remains to point out, as already pointed out with before, the insurance or stop (10) will also be associated with a thread Nylon also wound to the reel, which will be maintained by its other end associated with the anchor (l) or any fixed point and next to it, such as the structure of the balcony (3) of way that, once the evacuation device has been used by one person, the descent equipment is recoverable to be usable by another.

Claims (4)

1. Evacuation device for fires in buildings and the like, which with the purpose of allowing said evacuation through the facade of buildings, from any window, balcony or similar, is characterized by being constituted from a plurality of anchors, conveniently fixed at strategically distributed points of the facade, easily accessible, and a plurality of descent equipment, each materialized in a harness, a rope and a safety or brake through which the harness is suspended from the rope and is scrollable in a controlled way along it. 2. Fire evacuation device in buildings and the like, according to claim one, characterized in that each anchor is materialized in a sheet equipped with holes for wall fixing by screwing or by any other means, sheet in which a bridge or handle is established frontally for fixing the upper end of the rope belonging to the descent equipment. 3. Fire evacuation device in buildings and the like, according to claim one, characterized in that said rope of appropriate resistance to the load to be supported is finished off by its free end in a carabiner coupling to one of the building anchors, incorporates the insurance or stop in the vicinity of said end, the rest of it being loaded to facilitate both storage and handling. 4. Fire evacuation device in buildings and the like, according to previous claims, characterized in that the Nylon® thread is secured to the safety or stop by the ends, which during the descent is held fixed by its other end to the anchor by any fixed point to the structure of the building, so that at the end of said phase of descent the aforementioned thread allows the recovery of the descent equipment for the reuse of the same.