Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1887
Complete Left, 29th Aug., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
I CHARLES MAC MAHON of Georges Street East Melbourne Victoria Australia
Knight & late Captain 10th Hussars do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
A fire escape to be made of tubes round oval or of any other shape of steel iron
or other metal, either double tubes forming a ladder or of single tubes, to fit together
by sections so that the length may be added to from the lower end. A cage to be
made of basket or wire work or other material fitted with guides to run up and down
the tubes of the escape also a pulley for a rope from the top of the escape to raise and
lower the cage.
The upper section of the escape to be provided with wheels to run up the walls of
the-building, and with a corresponding pulley for the rope to raise and lower the cage.
The foot of the escape to be fitted with a union joint, so that a water hose may be
attached, to circulate water through the tubes, and another union joint on top to
convey water when necessary into the building.
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page_text: Portable Tubular Fire Escape, Applicable also for Extinguishing
Fires.
CHARLES MAC MAHON of Georges Street East Melbourne Victoria, Knight do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The above named escape to be made of tubes round oval or of any other shape;
of steel iron or any other metal either fixed as shewn by figure No. 2 in accompanying
drawing or portable as shewn in figures No. 1 and No. 3, in which latter cases the
tubes fit together by sections so that the length may be added to from the lower
end; and are either double forming a ladder as in figure No. 1 or single as in figure
No. 3.
Whether the tubes he portable or fixed a cage or basket marked A made of basket
or wire or other suitable material fitted with slides B to run up & down the guide
tubes N also with a pulley F for a rope G to raise or lower the cage.
If the escape be fixed (figure No. 2) the rope, if desired, to pass down the hollow
of the tube as shewn in the drawing.
If the escape he portable (figures No. 1 and No. 3) the upper portion to be provided
with wheels E to run up & down the walls of the building, the foot of the tube or
tubes H to be fitted with a union joint K so that a water hose L may be attached
either from the street mains or a fire engine, to circulate water through the tubes; and
with another union joint M on top of the upper part of the upper section to cool the
apparatus & convey water into the building when necessary..
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. The use of metal tubes; to unite in sections so as to be portable; or fixed if so
desired.
11. The fitting of the openings of the tubes with union joints to connect. with a hose
for the circulation of water or other liquid.
III. The adjustment and working of the apparatus entirely from below without the
intervention of any person inside the building.
Dated this 27th day of August 1887