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Abstract

An emergency escape system for high-rise building includes a launcher installed in a launch room/station of a given floor in a skyscraper and suspended by a spring-loaded reel of cable which is counterbalanced by the weights of the launcher which has mechanisms for floor retraction and movement control incorporated to it, and a descending ride unit on a guide rail which engages with the launcher and which conveys an escapee or a load whose weight upsets the equilibrium of the two opposing forces and while the ride unit disengages from the launcher when the launcher has descended through the retracted floor, the launcher returns to the launch station to maintain the equilibrium of the weight balance, leaving the descending ride unit to continue its motion down the shaft with its human cargo/es until brought to rest by a brake system of arresting cables with or without brake linings and drums; before safely ejecting the escapee/s from the ride unit away from the shaft.

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