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Show a life-saving MASK. Device to De of Benefit to Shipwrecked Ship-wrecked Personi. A German Inventor has decided that many pereons como to their death through drowning at sea, e,ven though thoy are able to swim or nro prevented prevent-ed from sinking by the wearing of life bolts. He maintains thnt tho deaths are duo to tho fact that the waves breaking over the wearer forco salt water Into the mouth and noso, often resulting fatally to tho victim. To ollmlnato this danger he hns Invented a llfo-savlng mask, preferably made of somo elastic material, as, for Instance, In-stance, rubber, shaped to conform to the modeling of the face. In tho lower portion of tho mask aro open lngs covered with wlro netting to re-duco re-duco tho water pressure, and prevent Ha ready cntranco into tho interior of tho mask. Short tubes Inside cover those orifices, nnd nro provided with a hollow ball-valvo adapted to automatically auto-matically close tho orlflces ngainst the entrance of water, without restricting re-stricting the freedom of breathing. A whlsllo ts provided to enablo tho wearer to signal when desired. |