Patent ID: 9626846
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B64D,G08B

Claim:
1. An evacuation slide comprising: a sliding face having a top end portion adapted to be positioned adjacent to an exit of a region to be evacuated, and a bottom end portion adapted to be positioned adjacent to an escape route leading away from the region to be evacuated and being arranged at a lower height than the region to be evacuated, and a light signal generating device adapted to irradiate at least one light beam onto the escape route which extends further in a direction parallel to a center line of the escape route than in a direction perpendicular to the center line of the escape route so as to indicate a predefined evacuation direction along the escape route, wherein the light signal generating device is adapted to generate at least one substantially fan blade-shaped light beam with a maximum light intensity plane extending substantially perpendicular to a surface of the escape route and slanted relative to the center line of the escape route in order to broaden the portion of the escape route delimited by the light beam with increasing distance from the bottom end of the evacuation slide.