STATIONARY FIRE-ESCAPE
Year: 1884

page_text: I, LIONEL GEORGE FALKLAND PYNE of Watford in the county of Hertford, Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "STATIONARY FIRE-ESCAPE"
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a construction and arrangement of a cheap, simple and
efficient stationary fire escape to be stationed permanently against the side of a
building, so as to afford means of descending from a window to the ground, in case
of fire or other danger, without permitting ascent by burglars or others from the
ground when the apparatus is not specially arranged for escape. For this purpose,
two parallel iron bars are fixed at an inclination from the ground to the sill of the
window from which escape is to be provided. At the top of these bars there is a
light removeable casing, enclosing a number of cross bars which are chained
together and have holes near each end through which pass the inclined bars.
When the apparatus is to be used for escape, the casing at the top is removed and
the chains holding the cross bars are loosed, whereupon these bars slide successively
down the inclined bars and take positions determined by the length of their
connecting chains so as to constitute rungs of a ladder by which descent from the
window can be effected. When the escape is not required, the rungs are drawn up
and cased over at the top, so that there can be no ascent from below. Sometimes
it is desirable that the bars, when the escape is not in use, should lie close against
the wall. For this purpose, they are, at their lower ends, jointed respectively to
the ends of two short bars, the other ends of which are jointed to staples tixed
at the bottom of the wall. When the escape is not in use, the long bars are pulled
up so that they, as well as the short bars to which they are jointed, lie close
against the face of the wall. When, on the other hand, the escape is to be used,
the long bars are allowed to descend, the short bars acting as radial arms causing
the lower ends of the long bars to move away from the wall, until, finally, the
short bars lie on the ground holding the long bars at their outer ends.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.

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I, LIONEL GEORGE FALKLAND PYNE, of Watford in the county of Hertford, Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "STATIONARY FIRE-ESCAPE
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a construction and arrangement of a cheap, simple and
efficient stationary fire escape to be stationed permanently against the side of a
building, so as to afford means of descending from a window to the ground, in case
of fire or other danger, without permitting ascent by burglars or others from the
ground when the apparatus is not specially arranged for escape. For this purpose,
two parallel iron bars are fixed at an inclination from the ground by the side of the
window from which escape is to be provided. At the top of these bars there is a
light removeable casing, or simply a chain enclosing a number of cross bars which
are chained together and have boles near. each end, through which pass the inclined
bars. When the apparatus is to be used for escape, the casing at the top is
removed or the chain is undone and, the cross bars being thus loosed, slide
successively down the inclined bars and take positions determined by the length of
their connecting chains so as to constitute rungs of a ladder by which descent from
the window can be effected. When the escape is not required, the rungs are drawn
up and cased over or tied up at the top, so that there can be no ascent from below.
Sometimes it is desirable that the escape when not in use, should lie close against
the wall. For this purpose, the long bars are, at their lower ends, jointed
respectively to the ends of two short bars, the other ends of which are jointed to
staples fixed at the bottom of the wall. When the escape is not in use, the long
bars are pulled up so that they, as well as the shorter bars to which they are
jointed, lie close against the face of the wall. When, on the other hand, the escape
is to be used, the long bars are allowed to descend, the short bars acting as radial
arms causing the lower ends of the long bars to move away from the wall, until,
finally, the short bars lie on the ground holding the long bars at their outer ends.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front view of a fire escape according to
this invention in the position which it occupies when not in use. Fig. 2 shews it
in position for use, Fig. 3 being a side view shewing it with the rungs held up.
A A are the two long parallel bars jointed at their lower ends to the shorter
bars B B which are jointed to staples bat the base of the wall. Usually the bars
are held up as shewn in Fig 1 by a chain C which passes over a pulley D and is
secured to a catch at E which can be easily reached from the window. On
releasing the chain C, the bars A descend to the inclined position shewn in Fig. 3,
'the bars B lying on the ground and holding the bars A steady at their base. A
guide bar fixed to the wall steadies the heads of the bars A. The rungs G,
which are fitted to slide along the bars A, and are connected to each other by chains
at each end, are usually held up by a chain H, or they might be cased over.

page_text: When the bars A B are let down to the position shewn in Fig. 3, the chain H
is loosed, and then the bars G descend forming rungs of a ladder as shewn in
Fig. 2.
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
The construction of stationary fire-escape, substantially as herein described and
shewn by the accompanying drawings.