Patent ID: 8307875

Claim:
A sectional gate with an escape door, comprising: a plurality of vertically displaceable gate sections foldably connected to one another along horizontally extending longitudinal edges of said vertically displaceable gate sections; an escape door located within an area of said sectional gate and constructed from door sections foldably connected to one another; and, means for opening and locking said escape door having an arresting device, a handle and a lock with a locking mechanism non-positively engagable in at least one vertically displaceable gate sections of said plurality of vertically displaceable gate sections, said lock and said handle for said escape door being non-positively connected with a sliding bolt extending in a vertical direction and a sliding bolt extending in a horizontal direction to said locking mechanism, said sliding bolt extending in the vertical direction being non-positively connected at a bottom end to said sliding bolt extending in the horizontal direction with movement of at least one of said sliding bolts extending in the vertical direction and said locking mechanism being arrestable via said arresting device, said arresting device including a first element and a second element connected to one another with a free end of said first element'being movably connected to said escape door and a free end of said second element being movably connected to said sliding bolt extending in the vertical direction with said arresting device being capable of causing movement via said handle of said sliding bolt extending in the vertical direction for preventing said locking mechanism from being activated when said escape door is open.