NOVEL LIEF-BOUY.
It appears strange that a remarkably single kind of life-bony, patented a few years ago, seems to have gone the way of many patents of less importance. It is a knitted woollen muffler of such length as to go once around the neck. Anyone can wear the article without been twitted with being over-careful of his life, as it has all the appearance of an ordinary scarf. If the wearer has occasion to use it as a life saving apparatus all that is necessary is to put a small tube, which projects from one of the ends, to the mouth and blow into it. In an instant a thin rubber bag concealed inside the scarf swells up with sufficient air to float a man easily. Being close round the neck there is no risk of it shifting and becoming a life destroyer as some of these inventions are. The tube contains a “ pea ” valve which is self-acting ; therefore all that is required in an emergency is sufficient wind to fill tbe bag,which then assumes the appearance of ap ortly German sausage.—“ New Zealand Herald.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2558, 2 June 1881, Page 2
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186NOVEL LIEF-BOUY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2558, 2 June 1881, Page 2
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