US163422A - Improvement in life-preservers - Google Patents

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US163422A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
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  • ADOLPH TRAUB OF NEW YORK, N. Y.
  • Figure 1 represents the life-preserver applied to the person as when in use.
  • Fig. 2 is a view of the life-preserver detached.
  • This life-preserver is constructed of a front and a rear part, connected together by straps or suspenders, supported by the shoulders, having movable wings or fins attached thereto, the whole being made double or bag-like and filled with roasted cork.
  • elastic straps F (on the two opposite, co:- ners) is another wing in front and one in rear, G G. These wings are made long, and taper to points H H at their lower ends, with their upper points I I extending above the When the person is in the corners G G.
  • the life-preserver is used, when necessary, 7
  • the lit'e-preserver may be made without the short wings E, or with only one of them. With this life-preserver on, a person in the water would stand but a small chance of drowning.
  • the filling may be (and usually is) quilted in and well secured, and the entire life-preserver may be made of oil silk or linen, or other similar water-proof material.

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A. TRAu Life-Preserver.
Patented May 18,1875.
@KESSES ATTORNEY THE GRAPHIC CO.PHOTOLITN.39&4I PARK PLACLNZY.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ADOLPH TRAUB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.
IMPROVEMENT IN LlFE-PRESERVERS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,422, dated May 18, 1875; application filed March 13, 1875.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ADOLPH TRAUB, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in LifePreservers, of which the following is a specification The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.
Figure 1 represents the life-preserver applied to the person as when in use. Fig. 2 is a view of the life-preserver detached.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
This life-preserver is constructed of a front and a rear part, connected together by straps or suspenders, supported by the shoulders, having movable wings or fins attached thereto, the whole being made double or bag-like and filled with roasted cork.
elastic straps F (on the two opposite, co:- ners) is another wing in front and one in rear, G G. These wings are made long, and taper to points H H at their lower ends, with their upper points I I extending above the When the person is in the corners G G.
The life-preserver is used, when necessary, 7
by throwing it over the head, as seen in Fig.
l, and then buckling the belt around the.
body. v
The lit'e-preserver may be made without the short wings E, or with only one of them. With this life-preserver on, a person in the water would stand but a small chance of drowning.
The filling may be (and usually is) quilted in and well secured, and the entire life-preserver may be made of oil silk or linen, or other similar water-proof material.
Having thus described my invention, I
claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A litepreserver provided with long fins E E, tapering to points H I, and held by elastic straps Fv F, as and for the purpose specified.
ADOLPH TRAUB. Witnesses:
T. B. MOsHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.
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