US 12,280,880 B2
Evacuation system inflatable toe end spring and sill height compensating feature
Drew Hartman, Phoenix, AZ (US); Jaro S. Volny, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Karl L Winkelman, Chandler, AZ (US); Scott A Luobikis, Phoenix, AZ (US); Breanna Swift Holmes, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Baltazar Gonzalez Leon, Phoenix, AZ (US); Ryan Foley, Phoenix, AZ (US); Ivan Kruts, Sacramento, CA (US); Raoul Evrard Chinang, Phoenix, AZ (US); Tony Pope, Tempe, AZ (US); and Timothy C Haynes, Prescott Valley, AZ (US)
Assigned to GOODRICH CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by GOODRICH CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/034,617.
Application 17/034,617 is a division of application No. 15/934,345, filed on Mar. 23, 2018, granted, now 10,822,098.
Prior Publication US 2021/0009277 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. B64D 25/14 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 25/14 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing an evacuation slide, comprising:
disposing a lower main support tube to extend longitudinally along a first side of the evacuation slide and to extend longitudinally along a second side of the evacuation slide;
disposing an upper main support tube to extend longitudinally along the first side of the evacuation slide and to extend longitudinally along the second side of the evacuation slide, wherein the upper main support tube at least partially defines a toe end of the evacuation slide and includes an end transverse tube connected to the toe end of the evacuation slide, and wherein the end transverse tube extends crosswise between the first side of the evacuation slide and the second side of the evacuation slide such that the upper main support tube at least partially wraps around the lower main support tube at the toe end of the evacuation slide in a longitudinal direction of the slide when in an inflated state;
disposing a flexible panel defining a sliding surface extending longitudinally between the toe end of the evacuation slide and a head end of the evacuation slide and to extend crosswise between the first side of the evacuation slide and the second side of the evacuation slide, wherein the flexible panel is supported between the upper main support tube and the lower main support tube, and wherein the sliding surface terminates at the toe end of the evacuation slide;
coupling a first sill height compensating feature to the end transverse tube at the toe end of the evacuation slide; and
coupling a second sill height compensating feature to the end transverse tube at the toe end of the evacuation slide such that the second sill height compensating feature is laterally spaced apart from the first sill height compensating feature;
wherein the first sill height compensating feature and the second sill height compensating feature extend longitudinally past the sliding surface of the evacuation slide and longitudinally past the toe end of the evacuation slide and longitudinally past the end transverse tube in response to the evacuation slide being deployed.