Patent ID: 7159693

Claim:
An escape device allowing emergency escape from a building, designed to resemble a window stutter capable of being in a stored arrangement, or in an operational arrangement, the escape device comprising: a) a frame, adapted to be adapted to be attached to said building, wherein the frame comprises two side rails b) a collapsible vertical connecting means anchored to the frame, c) a plurality of slats received by and slide along the side rails, the slats also being connected to the vertical connecting means at predetermined locations along its length, wherein i. the slats may be placed into, and slide along the two side rails of the frame, and be positioned in the stored arrangement stacked on top of each other in an angled position relative to the frame, resembling a window shutter, and ii. the vertical connecting means may be extended in the operational arrangement allowing the slats to extend down the frame and out the bottom, with each slat being spaced from adjacent slats approximately the distance of steps on a conventional ladder, the slats and vertical connecting means functioning as an escape ladder.