High Rise building escape shoot Since the advent of high-rise office and residential buildings, there has been a concern by the occupants in such buildings about their ability to evacuate in case of an emergency.

While many solutions have been tried and implemented, there is clearly still an unfulfilled need for additional emergency evacuation facilities.

Currently the main venues for leaving a high-rise building are by the existing internal stairway and the elevator system. Both of these have potentially serious drawbacks. In the case of the elevators, they are dependent on an uninterrupted electrical system, something that is often not available in case of a fire or structural damage to the building. While the stairways are not dependent on electricity, they are often subject to severe impediments in form of structural damage and a severe accumulation of smoke in case of a fire in the building. There is thus clearly a need for an alternative way to evacuate a high-rise building, other than the ones currently being offered.

The present invention offers a system and method to evacuate a high-rise building through the implementation and deployment of an emergency escape shoot (FIG, #12. The escape shoot is extended from the evacuation floor of the building, on its exterior, to the ground level. The escape shoot is to be mounted and stored, when not in use, in a box life structure (FIG, #14) on a suitable floor from where emergency evacuation of the building may be implemented in the case of an emergency The box containing the escape shoot is mounted in a window or other suitable opening on an exterior wall of the building. The escape shoot is folded in an accordion like manner, with all of its sections, long enough to reach the ground level from the floor where it is mounted in its box. The box containing the shoot may have a door mounted on the inside, thus preventing unauthorized entry into the escape shoot. Such a door may have an emergency release, which anyone can open in case of an emergency.

The shoot is a long modular tube, built of a multiple of sections. Each section is between 2 and 2.5 meters in length. Each section is made up of two parts. Part one (FIG, #16) is between 1.5 and 2 meters in length and is sufficiently wide to permit an average adult easy passage through its length. This part is constructed of a high strength nylon material that is strong enough to withstand severe stress in all directions and capable of supporting sufficient weight for the task. Part two (FIG, #18) is made up of a rubberized nylon or other suitable material that acts as a breaking and constricting area, slowing down the free fall of the user while going through part one. The restrictive and slowing down capability of part two is such that the user actually needs to push or squeeze himself through part two, before resuming the free fall through the next section and its part one. By using these two parts, the user will be able to exit the building in an escape shoot from a high elevation, but doing so in a safe and controlled manner.

The total length of the escape shoot is built of a sufficient number of sections that will allow it to reach the ground from the floor from which it is deployed. Deployment takes place by pushing the escape shoot from its storage box out through the opening in the exterior wall of the building. When the escape shoot opens up from its accordion like storage state, it will by its own weight fall in a straight line down along the side of the building.

The loops should be mounted in a manner that will allow the escape shoot when dropped from its deployment floor, to fall through the hoops on its way down the side of the building. The bottom section of the escape shoot should have rings (FIG, #22) mounted that may be attached to pre-positioned hooks (FIG, #24) on the ground, thus anchoring the shoot in a vertical position along the exterior side of the building, from its deployment box via the hoops along the building down to the anchoring points at the base of the building on the ground level.