WAUPACA RECORD LEADER

May 18, 1916

 

COMPANY WOULD LOCATE HERE

 

JERSILD FIRE ESCAPE COMPANY SEEKING LOCATION FOR MANUFACTORY

 

ESCAPE, FOREIGN INVENTION

 

If Twenty Thousand Dollars of Stock Can Be Sold

Company Will Establish Plant In This City

Underwriters Have Approved Device

Mechanism Very Simple

 

            A demonstration of the Jersild Fire Escape was made Monday afternoon at the Danes’ Home all. The apparatus was fastened at one of the gallery windows so that the demonstrator might have a satisfactory height from which to descend.  Several descents made were sufficient to convince one that the machine is practical and that it has a future.

Its Mechanism

            The mechanism of the machine is very simple.  Attached to the arm of a crane is a drum upon which is wound a cable of small caliber; the cable passes out over the end of the crane arm; upon the end of the cable is a snap behind which is a length of rubber tubing which is to be buckled about the body under the arms.  The drum upon which the cable is fastened communicates with two cylinders set in a plane parallel to the side of the drum; the piston rods are fastened onto the drum eccentrically; the piston heads have small holes in them through  which a mineral grease must work thereby producing a check upon the rotation of the cable drum.  The cable is rewound by means of a coil spring.  The whole apparatus weighing about 28 pounds, can be attached to a window jamb.  It admits of operation for any weight from twenty pounds to any amount the cable will support.  The apparatus is a Danish invention.

Mr. Jersild’s Proposition

            At a mass meeting at the City Hall,  

 

 

 

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