Show LIFE SA SAVERS LIFE VER BELT FOR USE AT NIGHT I J j r It often otten happens that on account of i lIo belts when thrown to persons per per- sons eons who have fallen overboard at J. J night cannot be seen Buoys with life belts attached and supplied with eight j power candle electric lights have been I t but without much success as theIr use ha had 1 necessarily to be confined confined con con- fined to vessels equipped with elec- elec elec light trie-light plants Even then the buoys were so heavy that It required three or 1 I lour four men to Handle them and this alone was a serious handicap A new apparatus for saving life at atI I tea at night has hu Just been completed by y a a. German Inventor It weighs but II three thirty pounds and produces a aI alight I light equal to candle The buoy Ts of globular form torm carries from two to four lire life belts and supports supports sup sup- ports a long cylinder of sheet tin having hav hav- ing- ing twelve compartments filled with carbide of calcium These compartments are are- arranged at different elevations When the life buoy I Is thrown rown into the s sea ea the water passes passes through perforations In the bottom of or orthe the cylinder and coming In contact with the carbide generates acetylene gas Each compartment Is connected with a burner by a pipe proper valves preventing the escape o. o of the gas other than through the burner hurner When the volume of 01 gas gu in the cylinder der decreases hydrostatic pressure opens the valves and allows water to enter the next compartment to generate generate gener gener- ate an additional supply of gas The gas Is lighted electrically and Ignition takes place in about twenty five seconds seconds sec sec- after the buoy is thrown Into the sea The flame fiame is protected from the wind by glass and burns steadily and with great Intensity for tor three or four hours One great advantage of or this InventIon invention tion Is that It q n be used on all kinds vf vessels It may be used for general lighting lighting- purposes To clean and refill the buoy requires only a few minutes The cost of a charge Is about 12 cents |