Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — PORTABLE FIRE ESCAPE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PORTABLE FIRE ESCAPE.

A Usef al Invention Recently Patented by an Albany Man. The cut shows an extension fire escape recently patented by an Albany man. Its operation can readily he understood, consisting mainly of a duplex system of lazy tongs, which can be extended by the operation of

x crank working In the toothed bars Jf the arrangement of tongs. The :op is mounted by a platform, which .xtends to the side, and which is controlled by the tooth and crank mechanism.

PORTABLE AND EXTENSION FIRE EXCAPE.