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Class 182/49 - With ladder


Subclass of Class 182 - Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Definition: Device wherein the means utilized by a person is a ladder.
No. of patents: 34
Last issue date: 12/04/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7302725Rail assembly for a telescoping ramp
A rail assembly for a telescoping ramp including a slider rail that is taller than it is wide, having opposed ends, opposed faces, and opposed edges. First ramp attachment means protrude outwardly from a first of the opposed faces. There is a hollow channel rail wit...
12/04/2007
7249655Utility truck servicing large airplanes
An all purpose utility vehicle supporting rescue efforts especially directed toward servicing disable airplanes being an entry tube having a cab section and a tail end section. Mechanisms are provided for inclining the tube so that the cab section is elevated to the...
07/31/2007
7237503Protective platform for a boat
A protective platform is disclosed that includes a panel that moves from a first position to a second position. In the second position, the protective platform may protect swimmers from the rotating propeller of the boat and provides a way for swimmers to enter and/...
07/03/2007
7191869Slide to safety emergency evacuation
An inflatable slide to aide in the evacuation of people from multi-storied buildings and a method of using the slide. The slide has three principle elements: an inflatable bag (10); a container (60) for the inflatable bag; and a pressurized gas source ...
03/20/2007
7069611Regional boarding ramp for commuter aircraft
A walkway having a series of fixed height corridor units and an inclined gangway unit at its forward end. The units are articulatingly connected and selectively collapsible. The gangway is selectively variable in height, being provided with elevating means at its fr...
07/04/2006
7025173Rescue system for high-rise buildings
A system for the evacuation of individuals trapped in multiple story buildings by gliding down a rescue sleeve. The sleeve (12) is composed of sections (20), each section being made of a sheet material strengthened by a circumferential rigid support me...
04/11/2006
7010825Telescoping ramp
A telescoping ramp assembly incorporates one or more sloping deck ramp sections which nest inside one another; are mounted on wheels; and have pull-up/fold-down railing sections which rise/lower and link/unlink as the ramp sections, powered manually or by way of a m...
03/14/2006
7000753Bulkhead-mounted wood storage and transportation device
A chute assembly for connecting an elevated area to a lower area, such as within a cellar entry enclosure, for transporting items. The chute assembly may also include a bin enclosure for storage of the items in addition to transporting them. ...
02/21/2006
6983823Boarding ladder and slide system
A combination boarding ladder and slide system includes a slide having an upper end pivotally coupled with a support structure, a lower end coupled with a ramp, and a slide bed supporting a removable boarding ladder. The boarding ladder is constructed of a flexible ...
01/10/2006
6957716Emergency stairway escape apparatus for wheelchairs
An emergency stairway escape apparatus permitting wheelchairs to egress a multi-story building via a stairway comprises a ramp platform of sufficient width to cover at least half of each stair tread and of sufficient length to span from an upper landing to a lower l...
10/25/2005
6892857Fire escape
Fire escape apparatus for egress from a multi-storied building structure from an upper level thereof is provided. The apparatus includes an elongate mesh tube, the tube being substantially longer than the structure height from which escape is required, and sufficien...
05/17/2005
6763911Emergency evacuation system for a staircase
An emergency evacuation slide is disclosed defined by an elongated base portion configured for deployment in a staircase having a flight of stairs including a plurality of horizontal treads, the base portion having an inner lateral edge configured for attachment to ...
07/20/2004
6598703Externally concealable, modular high-rise emergency evacuation apparatus with pre-qualified egress
An externally concealable modular high-rise emergency evacuation apparatus that enables people, including the injured, the elder or drabled persons to escape entrapment from or to bypass the levels of a high-rise building that is impassable due to flame, ...
07/29/2003
5975467Inflatable evacuation slide
An inflatable evacuation slide for an aircraft comprising upper and lower sliding regions interconnected by an intermediate sliding region and including a flexible sliding support surface. An inflatable support structure extends outwardly from the upper s...
11/02/1999
5967254Energy dissipating emergency evacuation slide
An emergency evacuation slide has an internal energy dissipation characteristic so that the slide is especially suitable for evacuation of persons from a relatively great height. By dissipating the energy internally in the slide rather than by frictional ...
10/19/1999
5875868Inflatable evacuation slide
An inflatable evacuation slide for an aircraft consists of first and second longitudinal support beams, upper and lower transverse support members and a flexible sliding support surface. The first and second longitudinal support members are spaced from ea...
03/02/1999
5535848Escape chute
An escape chute for a stairwell against a wall within a high-rise building comprising a slide assembly. A structure is for pivotally mounting the slide assembly in an angular condition to the wall above the stairwell. The slide assembly can go from a stor...
07/16/1996
5427574Inclined slide structure
This invention concerns an inclined slide structure for placement onto an inclined surface or a set of stairs for amusement purposes. The inclined slide structure is comprised of a series of generally U-shaped intermediate inclined slide sections to be as...
06/27/1995
5137114Stair track device
A stair track device adjustable to correspond with a variety of physically different stairways is shown. The stair track device includes right side rails which slidably engage one another in telescopic fashion to form a rail assembly. Locking pins fix the...
08/11/1992
4943048Staircase amusement slide
An amusement slide to be supported in place on a staircase is formed of a plurality of segments which interconnect with modularized connecting means. The slide can be readily and securely assembled into position for use and disassembled for convenient sto...
07/24/1990
4932648Playground slide
Each of the slide sections making up the bedway are roto molded and have a common shape such that they may be interchanged and reversed end for end. Each connection includes a tongue and groove in the bototm wall and a sidewall extension on one sidewall r...
06/12/1990
4811943Playground slide
A spiral slide includes interconnected bedway sections each of which are hollow and include as an integral part of the section body a sleeve telescopically engaging a ground support post. Fasteners interconnect the end-to-end bedway sections and are dispo...
03/14/1989
4773505Refuge apparatus
A sliding chute to be set at one side of stairs from upstairs to downstairs. This sliding chute is maintained in an erected state and can be used as a handrail at ordinary times. However, in an emergency such as during the chute fire, can be made to fall ...
09/27/1988
4650034Safety escape chute
A safety escape chute for assisting in rescue of persons from burning buildings and the like has a generally U-shaped chute mounted on a vehicle and having a length to reach from the ground to the highest level required. The system includes extensible sup...
03/17/1987
4630819Collapsible playground device
A collapsible playground device comprises a plurality of ladder sections pivotably mounted to each other at their ends, and attaching members for releasably securing the ladder sections at any desired angular position with respect to each other when in us...
12/23/1986
4607994Transport arrangement especially for lining material
An arrangement for transporting wall material, for example, shaped bricks for the lining of ladles, converters, blast furnaces or the like, where the transport is intended to take place between a supply place, usually located outside the converter or corr...
08/26/1986
4606431Evacuation slides for multi-story buildings
Escape devices for multi-story buildings characterized by a deployable chute or slide which provides for rapid and easy transfer of building occupants from elevated stories to a lower attitude. An escape device comprises a chute deployable so as to provid...
08/19/1986
4583616Portable fire escape
A portable fire escape is provided comprising an entry support member and a mesh fire escape tube attached at one of its ends to the upper support member and at the other end to a lower exist-opening ring support member. The entry support member is affixe...
04/22/1986
4539781Device for transporting loads between various elevations
The invention is an improved device for transporting loads between various elevations. Such loads may be handicapped persons in wheelchairs, wheeled truck loads of freight or materials, wheeled people carriers, or other similar loads that require transpor...
09/10/1985
4498557Emergency escape apparatus and method of using same
The emergency escape apparatus includes a slide device installed at a staircase, and includes a slide member extending at an incline over the stairs when disposed in its use position. In order to use the apparatus, the slide member swings about a hinge de...
02/12/1985
4050542Mobile rescue apparatus
Mobile rescue apparatus is provided for rescuing individuals from modern high-rise buildings and the like. An elongated reeved telescoping chute is mounted on a mobile platform and is movable to any angle and extent to reach a desired portion of a buildin...
09/27/1977
3993275Ladder lifting and leveling device
A safety device for supporting legs or feet of a ladder or similar structure which is a one-piece combination of an inclined plane and a series of steps providing a multiplicity of levels on which said structure may be supported....
11/23/1976
3982608Fire escape
Fire escape apparatus having a flight of stairs formed of a smooth material having treads and risers and which is mounted beneath a balcony for swinging movement between a horizontal position and a downwardly inclined position, the treads and risers being...
09/28/1976
3980155Fire escape
Fire escape for use in multi-storied building having floors spaced generally equally from adjacent floors at floor spacing. Fire escape has fire resistant, vertical, hollow outer column and similar inner column positioned generally centrally within outer ...
09/14/1976
 
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