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History will shows that:
THOUSANDS COULD HAVE SAVED THEIR LIVES IN THE WTC
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People that were trapped above the floor levels impacted  could have been evacuated by only one set of four or five units of ZEC-EM, remaining operative over 25, in few minutes.
The Zephinie   Escape Chute (ZEC) 
can operate over 100 floors.  
Can evacuate up 1000 persons per minute, including handicapped ,  injured persons with the same average escape speed.
Ignorance or bad will
can't invalidate demonstrable 
facts.
 



1974
Fire code enclosed ZEC escape chute 
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Popular Science 1977

 

First Article about The Zephinie Escape Chute
 

Popular Science 1977

Both articles were published by UTC-Otis Press Relation department.



Image text: The sleeve exerts an elastic pressure which enables evacuees to control their falling speed simply by spreading elbows and knees.

 

DOWN THE SLEEVE TO SAFETY

The unique Otis Evacuation System provides swift and easy escape from high places in emergency situations

 

 

By Trebor Namiaz

 

Bernard Faurobert, a bearded Parisian with the nervy nonchalance of a movie stuntman and the persuasive charm of a Pied Piper, usually jumps out of an upper story window or into a deep, narrow interior building shaft at least once a day somewhere in France. These feats of derring-do are an important part of his job and, despite outward appearances, they are completely without hazard. In fact. he finds them easy and fun. But inducing people to follow him is understand ably difficult — and at this task he is highly successful.

Faurobert is a sales executive for Ascinter Otis in Paris. His current work does not involve the company’s traditional elevator products.

Instead, he heads up the marketing effort in France for a unique new life-saving device made of special fabric and bearing the appearance of a long white sleeve.

Called the Otis Evacuation Sys tem, this sleeve is designed to be deployed from windows or down shafts inside buildings for use in evacuating people under conditions of fire. Extended from an overhead cable car or from a ceiling-level, factory-traversing cab, it can pro- vide escape for people in other emergency situations. In any application, it affords a simple and swift journey to safety. One needs only to enter the sleeve feet first and

Begin a slow, gentle slide to the ground, keeping the rate of descend at a comfortable pace by extending knees and elbows against the Fabric

Faurobert and his crew have already sold and installed more than 300 of the escape systems through out France, and in most cases the sale was clinched after Faurobert had coaxed the apprehensive customer into following him on a trial trip down the sleeve.

“1 talk them into trying it out usually from three or four stories up,” Faurobert says. They always come down enthusiastic.

Faurobert’s counterpart in Spain Conde Parras of Zardoya Otis.

 

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People can carry children or babies in their arms and still negotiate the evacuation system with no trouble.

 

In some installation entry to the evacuation system is gained trough a trap in the floor, as demonstrated by Faurobert

 

 

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