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Show NEW LIFE SAVING APPARATUS Attachment Prevents Burning of Rope Shot From Gun Does Not Interfere Inter-fere With Flight. Just at this season of the year the life saving apparatus is very much in the limelight and the attachment for life saving guns invented by a New Or Fireproof Joint Holds Line. York man Is of especial interest. Those who have seen these guns on the beach at coast resorts will recall re-call that they are cannon with an adjustable ad-justable range that shoot out rods to one end of which is attached an end of a coll of rope contained in a receptacle at their side. The heat of the blast, however, has been known to set Are to the lifeline with the result that It did not reach Its destination. The attachment here shown consists of a long fireproof joint that connects the end of the missile in the gur with the free end of the rope, engaging both with a series of elastic loops that allow al-low such perfect freedom of movement move-ment as not to Interfere In the slightest slight-est wltb the flight of the missile. |