96 



Popular Science Monthly 



The coat is fastened together in sections so 

 that it pulls apart readily when caught 



A Safety Coat for Workmen. It 

 Pulls Apart in Sections 



TWO million machineshop workers in 

 the United States read safety bulletins 

 each week and operate machinery equipped 

 with every kind of safety appliance which 

 money will buy. Yet not a week goes by 

 but several careless workmen are in- 

 jured and one or two killed outright be- 

 cause of their own reck- 

 lessness. One of the most 

 common forms of acci- 

 dents is the catching of 

 loose and exposed gar- 

 ments in revolving shafts, 

 pulleys and other moving 

 machinery. 



Only recently a man 

 wearing a ragged sleeve 

 while turning a bolt on a 

 machine in an Omaha 

 shop was stripped to his 

 waist. By a miracle his 

 life was saved. Had he 

 worn the safety garment 

 illustrated on this page 



he would have lost part of the coat only. 

 Herbert P. Andrews, of Portland, Oregon, 

 the inventor, has designed the coat in sec- 

 tions in such a way that any unusual pull 

 on any particular section will detach it 

 bodily from the rest of the garment. 



The coat is not sewed together at the 

 seams, but is fastened, one section to the 

 other, by snap fasteners. Thus any section 

 may be detached without tearing the rest 

 of the garment or endangering the life of 

 the wearer. If the workman is fortunate 

 enough to see the machinery catch his coat, 

 he can pull himself away instantly, losing 

 only one section of the coat. The snap 

 hooks and fasteners do not detract from the 

 general appearance of the coat, and it 

 meets all the demands for ordinary wear. 



Motor Attachment Which Prevents 

 Injury to Rowboat Screw 



WITH the marketing by a Western con- 

 cern of a tilting motor attachment, 

 the motor-driven rowboat comes into its 

 own. In the past when beaching the boats 

 or when passing through shallow water, the 

 propellers of rowboats using motor power 

 were endangered. In a boat of such light 

 draft as the rowboat, the propellers have 

 to be held below the bottom of the boat to 

 afford it sufficient "push." This, of course, 

 is unsafe; for in beaching the boat, or in 

 passing a rock or a snag in shallow water, 

 the propellers are likely to be snapped off 

 or bent out of alinement. 



The tilting motor attachment prevents 

 such an accident. The entire propelling ap- 

 paratus is mounted on 

 the flexible tilting attach- 

 ment, so that if anything 

 strikes against the back 

 of the propeller the ap- 

 paratus automatically 

 tilts up and the pro- 

 peller clears the obstruc- 

 tion without injury. 



If the low-sunken 

 propellerhits a rock 

 it swings up on its 

 tilting attachment 

 and clears the ob- 

 struction in safety 



