Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 28th. Feb..,. 1887..
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1887.
I WILLIAM JAMES. CORDNER of 63 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus to be applied to dwelling
houses hotels and other buildings to enable persons more casily to escape. therefrom in
case of fire without being dependent upon the ordinary fire escapes now in general use.
For this purpose according to my invention this fire escape apparatus consists of a
carriage or carrier running or travelling on two wires which are securely fixed to the
framework of (or otherwise secured inside)-the window. When the escape apparatus
is required to be brought into use the wire or wire ropes are lowered out of the window
to the street below where they are taken across and readily attached or fastened by
means of a suitable hook or catch at the end of each wire to corresponding hooks or
catches secured in the kerbstone or other convenient place on the opposite side of the
street the two wires being thus securely stretched from the window to the opposite side
of the street below. The before mentioned carriage is now ready to travel along the
wires and the person in the carriage may let it down or the carriage may be hauled up
and down by persons in the strect or at the window by means of an endless band or
rope attached to the carriage and running round a block or sheave at both the top and
bottom of the stretched wires.
When out of use all the parts of the apparatus are made to fold up and pack close
under the window and may if desired be covered up in any convenient manner.
In applying my invention it will generally be sufficient to place one such apparatus
on each floor of a building but not immediately underneath one another so that com-
munication may be had from each floor with the street below at the same time. In
very large buildings more than one apparatus may be provided on each floor if desirable.
In all cases corresponding hooks or fasteners are provided at the opposite side of or in
any other convenient position in the street below to attach the apparatus to.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant..

page_text: I, WILLIAM JAMES CORDNER of 63 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its object improvements in fire escape apparatus to be applied
to dwellinghouses, hotels and other buildings to enable persons more easily to escape
therefrom in case of fire without being dependent upon the ordinary fire escapes now
in general use.
And in order that my invention may be easily understood and readily carried into
practice I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings Figure 1 of which shows a side view of the apparatus in work and Figure 2
a plan of apparatus, each view shewing apparatus working from opposite houses so as
not to interfere with one another.
For this purpose according to my invention this fire escape apparatus consists of a
carriage or carrier a running or travelling on two wires b b which are securely fixed
to the framework of (or otherwise secured inside) the window c.
When the escape
apparatus is required to be brought into use the wire or wire ropes b are lowered out
of the window to the street below where they are taken across and readily attached or
fastened by means of a suitable hook or catch d at the end of each wire to suitable hooks
or catches secured in the kerbstone e or other convenient place on the opposite side of
the street the two wires being thus securely stretched from the window to the opposite
sfde of the street below. The before mentioned carriage a is now ready to travel along
the wires b and the person in the carriage a may let it down (as in Figure 1) or the
carriage a may be hauled up and down by persons in the street or at the window by
means of an endless band or rope attached to the carriage a and running round a
block or sheave g at both the top and bottom of the stretched wires.
When out of use all the parts of the apparatus are made to fold up and pack at c
close under the window c and may if desired be covered up in any convenient
manner.
In applying my invention it will generally be sufficient to place one such apparatus
on each floor of a building but not immediately underneath one another so that com-
munication may be had from each floor with the street below at the same time. In
very large buildings more than one apparatus may be provided on each floor if desirable.
In all cases corresponding hooks or fasteners are provided at the opposite side of the
street below or in the opposite buildings or in any other convenient position in the
street below to attach the apparatus to.

page_text: Having now particularly 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 combination of parts constituting the herein described fire escape apparatus
as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The improved arrangement and construction of fire escape apparatus arranged to
act substantially in the manner hercinbefore described and represented in the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 28th day of February 1887.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentec.