The Life-Preserver Chair Cushion 



A new idea for pleasure yachts and steamers 



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'HEX next 

 your best 

 friend invites you 

 to take a trip on 

 his yacht, do not 

 refuse just because 

 you do not happen 

 to see anything 

 that looks like a 

 life-preserver 

 around. He may 

 have fitted out his 

 deck chairs with 

 life-preservers that 

 serve as cushions. 

 Practically everything that is upholstered 

 can be made into a life-preserver. The 

 mattress you sleep on at night, the 

 pillow under your head and the deck 

 chairs in which you lounge during the 

 day all can be designed to float and 

 help you float if disaster overtakes the 

 ship. 



The most interesting of these life- 

 preservers is contained in the easy chairs 

 which invite you to rest on the deck. 

 The comfortable leather upholstery may 

 be removed from the chair in a minute 



The chair cushions in 

 position on the body 

 as a life- preserver 



and fitted on a person as a life-preserver. 

 When the time to take to the water arrives, 

 you simply rise from your chair, grasp the 

 cushion which has been supporting your 

 back and raise it up. You will see that it is 

 attached by two straps to the cushion 

 which forms the seat. Lift the cushion 

 over your head so the two straps rest on 

 your shoulders and the seat lies on your 

 chest. Two other straps attached to the 

 cushion and the seat are readily adjusted 

 so the life-preserver fits you correctly 

 w^hether you happen to be stout or thin. 

 The straps fasten with snappers and you 

 may hook yourself into the life-preserver 

 with all the expedition with which a fire- 

 horse gets into his 



rr, . ■, harness. 



The seat and rj^, , . 



back cushions A he rnaterial 



are connected g/tf^ used in this type of 



with two straps. f^M marine upholstery 



is kapok from 



Java. This will 



not absorb 



water and 



The seat fits 

 over the chest 



It takes only a few 

 moments to adjust 

 the kapok cushions. 

 They have a buoy 

 ancy of one hundred 

 and forty pounds 



is exceedingly buoyant. It is 

 equally attractive for the purpose 

 of ordinary .deck upholstery as 

 real leather, which it very closely 

 resembles. The chair cushion 

 life-preserver has" a buoyancy of 

 one hundred and forty pounds 

 while the ordinary life-preserver 

 only boasts about twenty-seven 

 pounds buoyancy. 



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