US1069691A - Life-preserver. - Google Patents

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G. A. E. HANSEN. LIFE PRBSERYER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1913.

1,069,691. Patented Aug. 12, 19 13.

messes I jf z cta w aw M y Qwwg'w a subject ofthe King of Denmark, residing 10 is neck or throat belt, semi-circular in at Sabine, in the county of Jefferson, in the shape, and connected to the belt 1 and in- State of Texas, have invented certain new .fiated by an air tube 11 and said neck belt and useful Improvements in Life-Preserw' is provided with a strap 12 adapted for 'ers, of which he following is a specification. locking engagement with a buckle 13 carried This invention relates to improvements by a strap 14: secured to the opposite end of. 4 in life preservers and its object is to prosaid belt. The'belt 10 is passe about the duce a device of this class comprising a throat and the straps 12 and 14 about the tubular belt adapted to entirely or partially back of the neck as shown in Fig. 1. The encircle the body of the. wearer at the waist, belt' 10 will hold the head of the body out of with means for supporting the same, anda the water. The body belt is placed about tubular belt connected by an air tube with the waist and its ends buckled together, the the first named belt and adapted to partially shoulder straps passed over the shoulders o encircle the neck of the wearer; the purthe body and the neck belt buckled about the pose of thelast named belt being to enable neck as illustrated. a person unable to swim to keep his head What is claimed is above the water. 1. In a life preserver, a tubular body belt The invention consists in the combination with means for inflating the same, astenand arrangement of parts to be hereinafter m means carried at the end of said belt, fully described in the following specificasupporting means secured to said beltand tion, pointed out in the claims an illusadapted to be passed partly about the body trated in the accompanying drawing which of the wearer, a tubular throat belt, means forms a part of said specification an in for securing the same to the throat or neck which-- I of the body and means connecting said belts Figure 1 is a View of my improved life whereby the last named belt is inflated. preserver as applied to a body. Fig. 2 is 2. In a life preserver, an adjustable tubua plan of the life preserver. lar body belt provided with a nipple, fas- Like reference characters inglioate corretening means terminally carrie y said spending parts throughout the several views, body belt, looped straps disposed upon said 1 is the body belt, somewhat ring-like in body belt, shoulder straps having looped tershape, one of its ends being provided with .minations passing about said belt and fasa strap 2 and. the other with a buckle 3 tening means at their other ends for enfor locking engagement with said strap in gagement with the said looped straps, an the usual manner. The fact that my body adjustable tubular throat belt, means for sebelt is not circular or endless makes it-adcuring the same about the throat andneck justable as the strap 2 may be made of any of the body and air-conducting means con- 85. length desired. Supporting looped straps necting said throat belt and body belt. 4:, a each provided with a ring 5 are disposed In testimony that I claim the foregoing about the belt 1 and said straps, through as m own I have hereto aitixed my signathe medium of .the rings, are connected to ture in the presence of two subscribing witsnaps 6, 6 carried by shoulder straps 7, 7 nesses. that pass over the shoulders of the body and CARL ALBERT EDVAau liANsEN. have their opposite extremities looped as at \Vitnessest' 8, 8 and disposed about the belt to support T. J. BALL,

To (166 whom it may concern:

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Specification of Letters Patent.

7 1913: Serial no. 754527.

Application i i-led March 17,

- Be itknown that I, CARL A. E. mam, into it to inflate it.

the same. The belt is further provided with Kn-Is'rnm ANDERSEN,

a' nipple 9 by which air may be introduced.

Patented Aug. 12,1913}.

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