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lips when the device is in place. A string 

 attached to the ring can be tied around 

 the neck. This will enable the .wearer to 

 recover the shield in the dark in case he 

 has a blowout. It will also keep him from 

 swallowing or inhaling the apparatus should 

 he overcome its resistance by a 

 determined effort to break into 

 nasal rhapsodies. 



In the second class, the anti- 

 snore devices are intended to keep 

 a person from sleeping on his back, 

 in which position the nasal soloist 

 makes the welkin and adjacent 

 hardware ring. Apparently 

 the inventors who work along 

 this line never slept on 

 lumpy mattresses. If 

 they had, they probably 

 would have directed 

 their thoughts to- 

 ward some method 

 of fastening the 

 snorer, face up, on 

 any one of the inani- 

 mate deformities of 

 the bed. 



In one of the illus- 

 trations at the bot- 

 tom of this page is a 

 simple application of 

 this principle. A 

 pad, either round or 

 elliptical, is strapped 

 to the small of the 

 back by means of a 

 belt. The idea is to keep the sleeper off 

 an even keel and thus prevent his useless 

 sounding of the fog siren. The pad, it is 

 said by the inventor, will keep him listed 

 either to port or to starboard. 



The ball-and-strap device opposite is 

 almost a duplicate of the one described. 

 The inventor, however, believes more pun- 

 ishment can be inflicted by strapping the 

 back-breaking object directly between the 



The idea of this de- 

 vice is to keep the 

 sleeper off an even 

 keel. The pad, says 

 the inventor, will 

 keep him always 

 listed either to 

 port or to starboard 



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It may be confidently stated that the wearer 

 of this device would not snore for the simple 

 reason that snores accompany sleep and for 

 him sleep is altogether out of the question 



shoulders. He advocates the use of a 

 rubber pneumatic ball to be fastened to 

 the belt in such a manner that it will be 

 neither punctured nor displaced. He fails 

 to explain how a person with the belt 

 strapped around his chest tightly enough 

 to hold the ball in place could in- 

 hale enough air to raise a snore. 

 In that, however, may lie one of 

 the subtle and fundamental excel- 

 lencies of his invention. 



The genius responsible for the 

 device illustrated at the bottom of 

 page 667 goes his fellow scientists 

 one better. He doesn't believe in 

 half-way measures and is 

 not afraid to say so. His 

 scheme is to make life 

 on the flat of the back 

 so miserable thata 

 snorer assuming 

 such a position will 

 wake up at least 

 long enough to wish 

 he had never been 

 born. Incidentally, 

 he combines a shoul- 

 der brace with the 

 snore dispeller. The 

 connection between 

 snoring and shoulder 

 braces is not imme- 

 diately apparent, 

 but it becomes so 

 when one reflects 

 that if a shoulder 

 brace won't keep a person awake, nothing 

 will. 



The refinement of torture, however, so 

 far as this public benefactor could apply it 

 to snoring, is embodied in the attachment 

 to be fastened to the shoulder brace at the 

 back. The attachment is a metal casting 

 having several projections. Though spikes 



Here some mercy is shown 

 ball is pneumatic. But the 

 ventor emphasizes the importance 

 of protecting it from puncture 



