Patent ID: 7942242

Claim:
An emergency evacuation kit usable in escaping from a multi-story building having an elevated room with at least one window, comprising: a portable carry-on luggage bag, wherein the bag is sized to allow carry-on storage thereof in an overhead storage bin of an aircraft or in an underneath seat storage area of an aircraft, wherein the bag includes a main compartment, an extendible handle, wheels, and a lid portion, wherein the lid portion is integral with a side wall of the main compartment, wherein the lid portion includes a zipper portion adapted to securely fasten the lid portion to other side walls of the main compartment in closing the main compartment, wherein the bag includes therein a predetermined length of rope, an anchor portion, a harness portion, and a descent controller, wherein the anchor portion is adapted to securely fasten a first end of the rope with at least one stationary structure in the building, wherein a second end of the rope is fastened with the bag, wherein at least a part of the rope is arranged into a plurality of bundles of folded rope, wherein the bundles are successively spaced along the rope, wherein each respective bundle is held together by at least one rubber band which is engagingly connected only to the rope of that respective bundle, wherein with the first end of the rope securely fastened with the at least one stationary structure, descent of the bag outside of a window of the room enables the bundles to unfold in succession, beginning with the nearest bundle to the first end of the rope, wherein during the descent of the bag, each respective bundle that becomes the nearest bundle to the first end of the rope, has both the rope therein unfold, and the at least one rubber band become disconnected from the rope, wherein a disconnected rubber band is free to descend independently of the rope and the bag, wherein the harness portion is configured to be worn by a user of the kit, wherein the descent controller is adapted to connect the harness portion to the rope, wherein the descent controller is hand operable by the user to control rate of user descent down the rope, wherein the bag is of a weight adapted to contribute to stabilization of the rope during user descent.