Abstract: A portable door lock with a strike plate, a bolt, and a magnet is disclosed. The strike plate has a boss that fits into the recess of a door frame, and has at least one aperture for accommodating the bolt. The strike plate may also have a handle for gripping by the user when inserting the strike plate into the recess of a door frame. Once the strike plate is fitted into the recess of a door frame, a bolt is inserted through the aperture or apertures, and the magnet is placed in the area between the door, the strike plate, and the bolt. The door is thereby secured, without the need for any tools.

Abstract: A portable door lock with a strike plate, a bolt, and a magnet is disclosed. The strike plate has a boss that fits into the recess of a door frame, and has at least one aperture for accommodating the bolt. The strike plate may also have a handle for gripping by the user when inserting the strike plate into the recess of a door frame. Once the strike plate is fitted into the recess of a door frame, a bolt is inserted through the aperture or apertures, and the magnet is placed in the area between the door, the strike plate, and the bolt. The door is thereby secured, without the need for any tools.

Abstract: A fire escape device has a box with a back panel secured to side panels and to two bottom end panels. A bottom central panel lies between the bottom end panels and is hinged to the back panel. A front panel is hinged to the bottom central panel and has a bottom edge rabbet interfitting with the front edge of the bottom end panels. A removable top panel has angles engaging the upper edges of the back panel and of the front panel and is short to leave end openings above the bottom end panels through which ornaments on the bottom end panels may project. The box is secured to a building by brackets secured to the back panel and the two bottom end panels. Brackets of one design lie over a balcony rail, and brackets of another design are bolted to the building wall. A ladder including side chains and cross rungs is disposed on the bottom central panel with the chains extending through cutouts in the top panel.

Abstract: A device for emergency escape from an elevated position in a structure is disclosed which includes an elongated frame fixable at the bottom, either to the structure or adjacent to the structure. The elongated frame is removably fixable to the structure at the top near the elevated position. An elongated collapsible-extensible slide is affixed to the top of the elongated frame and is itself fixable to the structure by removable means so that release of the frame at the top extends the slide from near the elevated position on the structure into a useable form for escape. Escape is accomplished by an individual sliding down the extended slide.