New Products: Exit Traveler
A new-products item with a photograph of a woman in the harness under the unit, describing the flat steel band cable in a reinforced cassette case.
Citation: American Survival Guide, December 1989. “New Products,” p. 14 (vol. 11, no. 12). Found via Internet Archive.
What it says
- “It operates automatically and has a reach of twelve stories.”
- Describes “a specially designed flat steel band cable housed in a reinforced cassette case” with “a tested tensile strength of 2,205 lbs.”
- Says the band cable, tie-down cable and hook “can withstand temperatures up to 1,830 degrees Fahrenheit for over 50 minutes at full load,” and lists a leather travel case, window center punch, 12-hour light stick and instructions.
Page image from the Internet Archive copy of the December 1989 issue. The Exit Traveler item is in the right-hand column; the other items on the page are shown as printed.
Transcript
Exit Traveler
Now you can carry a reliable means of escape from high-rise fire wherever you travel. The portable, compact, lightweight Exit Traveler is an easy-to-use lowering system engineered to carry you slowly, safely to the ground. It operates automatically and has a reach of twelve stories. Engineered from the highest quality materials, the Exit Traveler has a specially designed flat steel band cable housed in a reinforced cassette case. The cable has a tested tensile strength of 2,205 lbs. The band cable, tiedown cable and hook can withstand temperatures up to 1,830 degrees Fahrenheit for over 50 minutes at full load. The unit comes complete with leather travel case, window center punch, 12-hour light stick and instructions. Contact R.A.W. Rescue Products, Inc. [address and telephone number omitted here].
Transcribed from the page image for accessibility and search; the scan is the document of record.
Reproduced as a historical document. Copyright remains with the publisher: American Survival Guide.