Reflective Rope Ladder

Abstract

Embodiments disclose a reflective rope assembly consisting of a ladder comprised of two heavy duty safety carabiners, a series of anti-slip PVC rungs, attached to the flexible rope side supports which has reflective silk strands braided in for the purpose of reflecting light in nighttime/dark environment. The fire escape ladders doesn't require any assembly. The safety hooks allow for the ladder to be quickly attached to a window or a balcony railing in multiple ways. The ladder is fully deployed when the hooks are secured, and the ladder is lowered out of a window or a balcony to allow a safe descend.

Claims

1. A rope ladder with reflective silk stands comprising: a main rope piece formed of a twisted, stranded fibrous material mostly reflective silk strands, said main rope piece including a top end and a bottom end, a plurality of short rope pieces formed from a twisted and stranded fibrous material mostly reflective silk strands, each of said short rope pieces including opposed ends, Where each of said short rope pieces including one end securely connected to said main rope piece by interweaving the braided and stranded fibrous material of reflective silk strands forming said short rope piece with the twisted and stranded fibrous material forming said main rope piece, each of the plurality of short rope pieces thereby creating a plurality of loops along the length of said main rope piece, and each of said plurality of loops being sequentially positioned on opposed sides of said main rope piece in alternating fashion along the length thereof, each succeeding loop secured to said main rope piece being 180° out of the plane of the immediately previous vertically positioned loop whereby said loops are positioned in alternating side to side relationship along the entire length of said main rope piece.

2. A rope formed with reflective material particularly reflective silk strands braided in for the purpose of reflecting light in nighttime/dark environment. This is particularly useful to assist user in night time or darkness when descending from any hazardous situation.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0031] FIG. 1 is a partial top view of the reflective rope ladder.

[0032] FIG. 2 is a partial close up view of the braided rope.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0033] Detailed descriptions of the preferred embodiment are provided herein. It is to be understood, however, that the present invention may be embodied in various forms. Therefore, specific details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but rather as a basis for the claims and as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to employ the present invention in virtually any appropriately detailed system, structure or manner.

[0034] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. As used herein, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well as the singular forms, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” and/or “comprising,” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

[0035] The present invention is directed to provide an improved smart rope ladders for climbing/fire escape, with a unique feature: the ropes of the ladder have a reflective silk strands braided in for the purpose of reflecting light in night time/dark environment.

[0036] Referring to FIG. 1 a flexible rope ladder as shown comprises of a series of anti-slip PVC rungs (1) which are attached to the flexible rope side supports (2) which has reflective silk strands (3) braided in for the purpose of reflecting light in nighttime/dark environment. The fire escape ladders doesn't require any assembly. The upper end of the rope ladder includes a top end which is formed into a closed loop (4) and spliced downwardly into the main rope, such that the splicing is in a direction 180° away from the direction of the force of stress during use. Similarly, each of the loop members is interwoven into the main length of rope, the interweaving being constructed and designed to be 180° against the direction of the force during use, thereby to increase the strength of the entire rope ladder during use. The upper loops allow for the ladder to be quickly attached to a window or a balcony railing in multiple ways such as using snap hooks. The ladder is fully deployed when the hooks are secured, and the ladder is lowered out of a window or a balcony to allow a safe descend.

[0037] The assembly as per its preferred embodiments is to provide a flexible rope as shown on FIG. 2 with reflective silk strands (5) which is formed from a single main piece of rope (6), and having a plurality of loop members interwoven and braided into the main piece of rope, such that when completed, the entire rope ladder is of unitary construction.

[0038] Having described the invention in detail, those skilled in the art will appreciate that modifications may be made to the invention without departing from its spirit. Therefore, it is not intended that the scope of the invention be limited to the specific embodiment illustrated and described. Rather, it is intended that the scope of this invention be determined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

[0039] The Abstract of the Disclosure is provided to allow the reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, it can be seen that various features are grouped together in various embodiments for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separately claimed subject matter.