Funnel Plunge ™

Picture the WTC. Picture the people trapped, all the way up at the top, hanging out of the windows, wondering where to turn... Fire Service ladders not long enough, not enough helicopters, no parachutes, no rope and no hope :-(

If only they had the Funnel Plunge™!

This device is situated in a small room, every 10 floors on the perimeter of a tall building. Once the unit is manoeuvred outside, the interconnecting/nested funnels made from flexible lycra type material, drop in perfect alignment to the Funnel Plunge™ below and the one below that and the one below that, until it reaches the street or a designated area on the roof below.

The top of the Funnel Plunge™ measures 3m in diameter (so you can throw children and grannies into them etc), but like nested Russian Dolls, the funnels get smaller and smaller and tighter and tighter, eventually the bottom exit measures only 30cm in diameter, therefore reducing the speed of your decent to an eventual slow squeeze. Like cream from a pipe, you eventually plop out into the next 3m wide Funnel Plunge™ 10 floors below and your descent continues.

Every ten floors you would go through 15 funnels, each getting tighter and tighter until plopping you out into the next 3m wide Funnel Plunge™ unit 10 floors below.

Upon activating the Funnel Plunge™ on your floor, the others below it automatically activate first. The bottom one opens and drops into place first and your floor last. This is to allow the funnels to drop inside each other accurately. Even on a windy day, the exit of the bottom funnel (measuring only 30cm diameter) would easily fall into a 3m wide funnel entrance directly below.