Study on New Escape Chute Device of High-rise Building

Safe escape in the fire disaster of high-rise buildings is a world-wide unsolved problem because of the complicated structure of the building and the huge amounts of resident. Nowadays the chute devices for escaping in high-rise building become important for collective escape, which is easy to use and runs at high speed without extra power. Rigid escape chutes and flexible escape chutes are introduced in this paper. The assembly of escape chutes and their disadvantages are discussed. For more function and more effective, a flexible multi-entrance escape chute with its store box is designed. This device offers a fire-proof, high temperature-proof and multi-entrance passage for collective escapes at the same time. Experiments of its prototype shows that this equipment can release escape chute in time, and bring evacuee more safety and escape efficiency.