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Safety Coffin
They make fireproof safes for your valuables, but what's more valuable than your life? | |
This is something that can be stowed vertically in the closet or flat under a bed. It's a fireproof coffin. If you wake up to find your house or apartment building on fire and cannot get out, jump in and seal it. The interior is softly padded to protect you from falling through a burning floor, and has
an
emergency oxygen supply inside. If the oxygen runs out before help arrives, a vent opens on each side (top, bottom, and each side) to allow air in, with several filters to keep out as much smoke as possible.
Includes a small AC unit to prevent it from turning into an oven, and strobe lights to make it easier for rescue teams to find. If you *do* die anyway, you're already in the coffin, saving your family the trouble of buying one for you.
same idea?
http://www.halfbake...om/idea/Panic_20Bed
shameless self promotion [senatorjam, Dec 13 2006]
Related Idea
http://www.halfbake...20Evacuating_20Beds
More shameless elf promotion [oneoffdave, Dec 13 2006]
Koro
http://books.google...en%20box%22&f=false
This safety coffin would be even better than the wooden box for treating koro. [bungston, Jul 14 2013]
Inergen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inergen
Breathable, no thermal decomposition products, will not support combustion. Ideal for this application. [Custardguts, Jul 14 2013]
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//and strobe lights to make it easier for rescue teams to find//
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Let's hope none of the rescue team are epileptic.
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I believe Royal Navy captains used to
sleep
in beds that doubled up as their coffins
if
they met their demise at sea. + |
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//If you *do* die anyway, you're already in the coffin, saving your family the trouble of buying one for you.//
Cremation may be tricky though. |
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//Cremation may be tricky though.//
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I see cremation being easier than ever with this. All your remains are already pre-crisped and neatly boxed up for transport to the crematorium. |
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wow, this stops me fretting over the dangerous ones. |
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Baked. US$6,000 gets you a double bed with a lockdown hood, making it a mini panic room. |
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I have several questions about this bed, Bunsen. They are as follows:
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1) Is this bed fireproof? (I mean all-around, or could fire burn upward through the bottom?)
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2) Does this bed have an AC unit?
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3) Is this bed solid enough to withstand a fall through a burning floor?
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4) If this is taking the place of your bed, and therefore something you sleep in on a regular basis, is it available in larger sizes?
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5) Does this bed contain an emergency oxygen supply and/or filtered air vents? |
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I'm guessing no for all five.
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We're all too quick to slag something as baked here.
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Good idea 21, bun for you. |
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How about you get into the box and a spring, or rocket propels the box out of the burning house. We could use all that technology that high school physics classes have come up with for their "drop the egg off a building without it breaking" experiments. And if you don't like your neighbor, you could deliberately aim it at their house. |
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yeah ok 21, what happens if you think the fires out, you think the oxygens out, so you open the "vents", letting out oxygen rich air, only to find hey shit man oxygen burns, you and ya coffin, nice idea, but er, i'm claustraphobic |
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that didn't even make sense...
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/you think the fire's out/ : have a simple outside temperature interlock.
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/you think the oxygen's out/ once again, have a simple oxygen level (pressure in cylinder?) interlock.
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/letting out oxygen rich air/ : not much...
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/shit man oxygen burns/ not really, and you'd have to be buried in a pit of red hot coals or something of this to be a problem.
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I for one think it's a good idea, I think [21] should look into mine underground rescue technology. I would outfit this enclosure with either an oxygen cylinder or an oxygen generator as per personal rescue kits, coupled with a CO2 scrubber to maximise effectiveness. You could have a survivable atmosphere for ages. In fact all the technology is there, including aerogel insulation, rebreathers, etc, you just have to put it together.
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My suggestion would be a significant CO2, or better yet, HALON gas bottle aboard. Dual purpose; first it has a simple evaporator system to provide additional cooling to the interior of the coffin, and secondly, the venting CO2 or HALON will partially quell the fire in the vicinity of the coffin. |
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I once posted an idea about a "Velcro Casket", so that on that night, you know, THAT NIGHT, Halloween, when the living dead need to get out, all they had to do was RRRIIIPPP off the top, and step out. |
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It's a shame it's gone, Bliss. Sounds like a great idea. |
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Perhaps instead of coffin, you could call it something with more of a positive lilt.
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"What are you doing in my corpse hatch?"
"Monty Burns, you're under arrest!"
"Did I say 'corpse hatch?' I meant 'innocence tube!'" |
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Love the idea but I have doubts that you could install sufficient padding in a coffin-sized casket to protect the inhabitant from a fall through the floor. |
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I was thinking about 4 inches of memory foam... would a restraint harness be practical, or would that just dangerously hinder egress? |
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I'd rather fall a floor than burn to a crisp. I
had this idea before but didn't post it. It
was called a survival pod. Pretty much the
same thing but it could also be used on
the ocean. |
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I like the idea, but does it have to be called a coffin? That's a little defeatist. |
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This is straying into discworld territory but why not have some small extending legs to allow it to get away from the source of the fire. |
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steerable wheels and a bike-like drive?
Hope you can make those turns down the
stairwell. |
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Maybe a small reservoir of drinking water, too? |
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Dunno 'bout you, [21], but I think I'd prefer a bottle of gin, some tonic, and a thermos of crushed ice.
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If I'm gonna burn, I'm doing it in style. |
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dark. The whole idea of getting a coffin to save your life is a little bit "iffy", especially when your house is an inferno. |
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/and secondly, the venting CO2 or HALON will partially quell the fire in the vicinity of the coffin./ Don't forget that HALON turns to phosgene gas in a fire. You could kill the rescue squad! |
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they should have BA on anyhows...
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seriously, maybe fire retardant foam, powder or just good ol' CO2 then |
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What about nitrogen? Doesn't support combustion, non-toxic... |
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[21 Quest]: according to the advertising blurb (and no, I can't find a link, I did look)
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1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) No, one size - king
5) Optional
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It also contains an all-band scanner, rations, an emergency power supply, a cell-phone, a separately wired landline, and a public adress speaker on the outside. And a kickin' sound system.
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I may have been wrong about the price. It could have been $16k, or $60k |
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If there were two hatches for your legs on the bottom, you could run along, keeping your important bits in the safety of the coffin. If things started to get troublesome for your legs and feet (you could watch them via camera), pull them in and drop onto the castor wheels. When the coast is clear, poke those legs back out and start running again! |
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This concept got me thinking of a scifi premise: cryogenic safety coffins. When things get tough people retreat into the cryogenic coffins. Fewer and fewer people are available and unfrozen to deal with the trouble and the crises get longer and longer. Finally only a ragtag band remains which by reason of religion / mental illness / abject poverty / physical infirmity (too fat to fit in coffin) / broken coffin cannot cryo themselves away. They must save civilization. But then do they want to share the fruits of their labors?
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It could be called Little Red Hens. |
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21 you could easily modify this concept to serve in treatment of koro. The emergency oxygen supply would not be as necessary but could be a selling point. |
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Extra oxygen... fires... I see no problem with this
idea. [+] |
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Just use an Inergen flush of the compartment instead of oxygen. Does not support fire, but still breathable (albeit a bit uncomfortable).
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If it wasn't so damned expensive, I'd put inergen suppression in my house. It's just great. [I don't work for them or anything, I just work at a place where we have Inergen protection of some critical substations. It beats the hell out of the other options available].
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I dunno. I was telling a local fireman that if my apartment caught fire, I'd go get in the shower with my collection of scuba tanks and wait for rescue. He advised that I just run out - the temperature inside the apartment will reach 1300 F. |
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/Just use an Inergen flush of the compartment instead of oxygen. Does not support fire, but still breathable (albeit a bit uncomfortable). /
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Breathable only in the sense that it is not poisonous. It has no oxygen in it and you will die if you have to breath only for it more than a few minutes. |
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Well, add enough oxygen to it to maintain the "breathable but unable to sustain combustion" proportions. |
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Isn't this just your garden-variety spacecraft
escape cpasule ? |
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