Patent ID: 6763911
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: A62B

Abstract:
An emergency evacuation slide comprising:an elongated base portion configured for deployment in a staircase having a flight of stairs including a plurality of horizontal treads, the base portion having an inner lateral edge having means for attachment to a side wall of the staircase, a pair of elongated base members having upper and lower surfaces and a set of adjacent edges operatively connected to one another for pivotal movement, and an outer lateral edge adapted to extend into the staircase, the evacuation slide being moved into a stowed position in which the base portion is vertical and adapted to be parallel to the side wall of the staircase and the lower surfaces of the pair of elongated base members are adjacent to one another and to a deployed position in which the base portion is adapted to be perpendicular to the side wall of the staircase and disposed in a plane extending tangent to the treads of the stairs with the upper surfaces of the pair of elongated base members being in a coplanar relationship with respect to one another, a side wall hinged to said outer lateral edge and having means for maintaining said side wall perpendicular to said upper surfaces in said deployed position.