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The Great Escape Ladder!

Tony Waithe with The Great Escape Ladder.

Demonstrating the Great Escape Ladder

Demonstrating the Great Escape Ladder

Since winning the Brtish Inventors Society Medal for Best Industrial Design in 2004 and 2006, the Building Regulation Approved Document B4, has been ratified, it has been updatded and instructs that all dwellings above 4.5 meters from ground floor level must have alternative means of escape.

Most people across the UK, Europe and beyond, still do not have alternative means of escape in their homes.

The Insurance Industry are spending many millions of £'s, every year for injuries (minor and serious) on people who were involved in house fires and should therefore find ways to reduce spending money by reducing the risk of being injured.

The British Safety Council's Director General, James Tye, went on a prime slot BBC TV show "Eureka" and said "of the hundread or so escape ladders he had seen at exhibitions all round the world, the Great Escape Ladder is the Best".

If more people could escape injuries by having alternative routes of escape installed in their homes, this would reduce the problem, create Jobs and wealth and ultimately save life should there ever be a serious fire.

For more information, please contact Tony Waithe:
Tel: 07812 796 494
Email: tonywaithe44@hotmail.com
or tonywaithe@gmail.com

Tony with The Great Escape Ladder.

The Great Escape Ladder is stored neatly & compactly under the window sill of the inside of every bedroom or building and doesn't require a key to open it up.

The Escape device also has a multi function ability as it can be used from the window or a balcony or even the roof top of any building.
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Great Escape Ladder folded away. Great Escape Ladder in use - external view. Great Escape Ladder in use - internal view.

Product description:

Product Design: Patent Copyright owner Tony Waithe

Size: 18" Front to Back

15" Across

24" Height (when ready to use)

Weight: 11.5kg

Colour: Custom colours (all mild steel polyester powder coated to standard RAL colour)

Patent Design Registration No 3021467
International Design Classification No 07C12504

Dr Andrew Curley and the Kingston University prototype design team.
Dr Andrew Curley and the Kingston University prototype design team.
Instructions for using The Great Escape Ladder!
Image 1 of how to use the Great Escape Ladder Push the device clamp onto the wall mount, then roll The Great Escape Ladder onto the window sill or ledge.
Image 2 of how to use the Great Escape Ladder With one push forward the stowed “Rope” ladder is ejected outwards while the hinged rigid ladder section falls out downwards so that the handle / “toe” piece comes to rest on the exterior wall face of the building in question.
Image 3 how to use the Great Escape Ladder The user steps back on the platform and finds the first rung of the rigid ladder section. Holding onto the main supporting rails the user lowers the weight of the body down onto the rigid ladder section.
Image 4 how to use the great Escape Ladder Make your way down to safety.
Demonstrating the Great Escape Ladder
Demonstrating the Great Escape Ladder
Demonstrating the Great Escape Ladder

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