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Popular Science Monthly 



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 Window 



Can Yourself for the Night and Turn 

 On the Heat 



GOING to bed will soon be the most 

 difficult and dreaded of the day's 

 tasks if the inventors are allowed to have 

 their way. One of them, James E. 

 Hanger, of Washington, D. C, has evi- 

 dently for- 

 gotten all 

 about the 

 adage that a 

 hard d a y's 

 work will put 

 feathers in 

 any old bed. 

 He has de- 

 vised a queer 

 contraption 

 which for ex- 

 terior appear- 

 ances at least 

 appears to be 

 a cross be- 

 tween a house- 

 boat and a silo. 



Imagine 

 yourself lying 

 in his bed, with 

 your head un- 

 der the house- 

 like structure at one end and your feet 

 under the ventilator at the other end. 

 You are in the same position as a piece 

 of canned asparagus. There is, however, 

 at least a slight difference. Your head is 

 literally cut off from the rest of your 

 body by a cloth partition which prevents 

 the air from reaching that part of the 

 body below the shoulders. Dormer win- 

 dows enable the sleeper to obtain 

 as much air as he wishes through 

 the house structure, but from 

 the shoulders down, artificial 

 heat is admitted into the can 

 through a pipe joined to the 

 foot. 



The semi-cylindrical part of 

 the bed can be moved back and 

 forth as the occupant wishes. 

 Instead of the ordinary mat- 

 tress, cords are stretched be- 

 tween pulleys made fast to the 

 sides, so that the bed may sag 

 as much as one wishes. The 

 inventor says his device is 

 particularly fitted for invalids. 



To sleep comfortably, emulate the ground hog and 

 crawl into your can-bed. Dormer windows admit air 



Lifting a Rowboat Out of the Water 

 by a Twist of a Lever 



ORDINARILY, to raise a boat out of 

 the water and place it upon a 

 float, two men lift one end and drag the 

 boat about half its length over the edge 

 of the pier. Then, with the float serving 



as a fulcrum 

 ' and the boat 



as a lever, the 

 other end is 

 raised and 

 dragged up. 



The one- 

 man boat-rais- 

 ing device 

 which Harry 

 Houghton of 

 Seville, Ohio, 

 invented, con- 

 sists of a lever- 

 acting frame, 

 a portion of 

 which extends 

 below the wa- 

 ter line and 

 and under the 

 boat. By 

 means of a 

 lever, ful- 

 crumed to the frame, the boat is tilted 

 up so that the water in it is dumped 

 out as the boat is raised. 



The operation of the lever is plainly 

 shown in the accompanying photograph, 

 in which a small boy is seen doing what 

 formerly required the services of two 

 men. The wear and tear on the boat 

 have been eliminated. 



By means of this lever-acting frame, even a small 

 boy can haul a heavy rowboat out of the water 



