Zephinie
Escape Chute
Pioneer of vertical mass evacuation technologies
Historic archives
Use for Fun and Fund Rising
Over 1,000,000 times tested only in Europe !
An extraordinary national popularity
Paris International Fair (1976)
UTC-Otis 10ft Otis Evacuation Chute at
the Readapt'81 Strasbourg show (March 19-23, 1981) .
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Between the October 24,1973 and December 5. 1974
the very first tests of EVZ summed up 40,270! International fair Paris, Marseilles,
Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg, The Red Cross, le Salon de la Jeunesse, la
Fête de l'huma, and similar
operations in Spain will every years increase the amount of public uses
of the EVZ to over 100,000 per year between France, Spain and
Belgium. The illegal marketing of the ZEC technology started in Asia stated in 1982 and actually one company claim having installed 3000 ZEC technology escape chutes. Hundreds of thousands uses has to be added from this source. Zephinie don't get money from the ZEC business since 1988. That makes little difference between regular and illegal use of Zephinie's technology worldwide but in the in the USA.
Those historic information’s are added for the American's press information that actually have a hard time to believe the story of the Zephinie Escape chute is a reality. All reported facts can be formally testified by hundred of witnesses and press report archives in France. The product itself involves a set of psychological characteristic that makes it universally appreciated by the population including the sensation to use it. The International fair of Paris (1974) Is an example of advertising sponsored operation and popular response to the ZEC: Zephinie convinced the fair director to sponsor the shows giving 10,000 sq/ft of space near the entrance. The demo’s 5 stories structure, the mobile home, and the 7 service men of the French Navy firefighters were also sponsoring participation of a value of $50,000 at the time.
During the rush hour the multitude
public watching over the demos was interfering the flow of passage to
the point that the next years the ZEC the Demo operation will be
located at the far end of the park near the Freeway.
15,000 of the 800,000 visitors tested an
evacuation system having officially forbidden to be tested by the
firefighters by the General of the French firefighters during 1974!
A blind person tested the EVZ carrying is dog
in his harms.
The Vertical evacuation technology invented by Zephinie has
been hundred of time reported by TV and in over a thousand times since
1973.
The TV, radio and press reports of all the international and
national fair demonstration will spread the invention adding to the
direct observation of the ZEC in rescues drills action by millions of
fair visitors every year. Undoubtedly the EVZ development operation has been most successful and the first internationally "sponsored" operation of this kind in France during the 70’s.
In 1977 a movie titled “The
Chaussette en Folie” with the famous French actor Jean
Richard in the role of the Inventor of the Chaussette was
released.
The French Government produced a movie
for international promotion of French product using the
“Chaussette
EVZ” an exemplar of the French creativeness. (Commerce Exterior) The nickname “Chaussette” The word “Chaussette” was first used to answer to
question “how does works the EVZ”. The answer was:
You feel like entering your harm into a long sock!
“Chaussette” in French. The press people will nickname the
EVZ la “Chaussette”. Later UTC-Otis tried to change this
popular nickname. The Word “Manche and Chaussette d’évacuation” has been added since to the French Vocabulary. The EVZ story include many anecdotes that will be eventually published soon in a book. A General's stupid public declaration
The French TV canal2 archive keep the stupid public
declaration of the General : That obviously works but it doesn’t
exit for me! (Oct. 24-1973)
Ferauge did is best to sunk the development
of the Invention of the vertical escape chute during 26 months. The
Original EVZ company financially exhausted for that reason will be
obliged to transfer UTC-Ascenter Otis the license of the ZEC in
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