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Charles E Littlejohn

Henry D Cook

An emergency escape system with escape module suspended from a cable or the like along but unattached to the exterior of a multistoried building, such cable being powered by any suitable mechanism incorporating hoisting and pumping devices such as the ground unit described in co-inventor Cook's U.S. Pat. No. 3,750,686, or the winding drum and water pump of a fire truck or other emergency vehicle, such cable being passed around a pulley supported on the roof of the building, so as to raise the escape module and lower it with encapsulated escapees to a haven. Such escape module is selectively positioned on the side of the building for ingress of escapees and provides such protective and human engineered features as heat shielding of escapees from fire; knotted ropes and handrails for handholds during and after ingress; fluid spray for suppression of fire; water cooling and heat shielding of the floor; total encapsulation of escapees for psychological and safety reasons during rescue; requiring no on-board operator thus avoiding risks to rescue attendants; being of light weight and transportable to permit use on a plurality of multistoried buildings.

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Charles E Littlejohn