The inventor fails to 

 tell how this man could 

 inhale enough air to 

 raise a snore if the 

 strap were tight enough 

 to hold the ball in place 



UNFORTUNATE — because innocent 

 — is the person who snores. But let 

 him take heart! Science is on the 

 job. The activities of the geniuses who 

 would silence the snore have been wide- 

 spread ; their devices for restoring peace on 

 earth and sleep to men 

 take many forms. The 

 amount of thought that 

 has been given to the 

 subject is amazing, and 

 we may infer that many 

 a midnight watt has been 

 consumed in the search 

 for a snore-silencer. 



As the poet might put 

 it, the triumphs by these 

 workers scored were not 

 attained by sudden 

 flight, but they, while their companions 

 snored, were toiling onward through the 

 night — obviously not the oft-mentioned 

 stilly night, else the incentive to work 

 would have been missing. 



The specimens of anti- 

 snore devices shown here are 

 separated into two classes. 



The first principle em- 

 ployed, as the scientific foes 

 of the snore would apply it, 

 may be described as suffo- 

 cation in varying degrees. 

 Exhibit A in the center of 

 this page is the simplest 

 type. It is a modification 

 of the idea that if a man 

 can't breathe, he can't 

 snore. Specifically desig- 

 nated, it is a plug for the 

 mouth. It consists of two 



Filtering the Snores Out 

 of Sleep 



How our inventors are wrestling with the 

 problem of silencing the nasal nightingale 



By E. B. Breuer 



soft rubber flanges connected by a 



thin rubber strip, which is to be held 



between the teeth. One of the flanges 



is to be placed behind the lips. The 



other remains outside. The flanges 



are bigger than the mouth, and the 



device when in place thus constitutes 



an effective stopper. As mouths differ 



greatly in size, we assume that this is 



essentially a tailor-made device. The 



inventor leaves us in the dark on that 



point. We must agree with him, however, 



that to the man who consents -to wear one 



of the appliances, nasal music will become 



a lost art. 



The inventor of the similar device in the 

 center of page 667 is more lenient. His ap- 

 paratus also is a stopper 

 for the mouth, but it has 

 a one-way valve. The 

 valve, opening outward 

 only, permits the expul- 

 sion of air from the lungs. 

 Should the wearer , at 7 

 tempt to inhale through 

 the mouth, he will find 

 himself surrounded by an 

 utter lack of facilities for 

 such an operation. 



In such a case the valve 

 the sleeper is obliged to 



Valve 



Any snorer who defied this anti- 

 snoring plug clamped in his 

 mouth would do so over his own 

 dead body, so to speak; that is, he 

 would be suffocated in the attempt 



This apparatus has a tether 

 which prevents it from get- 

 ting lost in case of a blow-out 



closes instantly, 



inhale through the nose and another shat- 

 tering of the silence is averted, or, as the 

 inventor scientifically puts it, there is an 

 absence of "the harsh nasal 

 sounds commonly called 

 'snoring.' " 



It remained for a Wis- 

 consin investigator, whose 

 device is illustrated at the 

 bottom of this page, thor- 

 oughly to tame or domesti- 

 cate the anti-snoring shield. 

 His apparatus is supplied 

 with flanges — to fit under 

 the upper and lower lips. 

 They are to keep the device 

 from wandering from side 

 to side. But the striking 

 feature is a ring which pro- 

 trudes from between the 



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