338 CONTRIVANCES TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM DROWNING- 



by which means it acts as a blower to cause the fire to bura 

 more briskly, but which slides down also to shut the fire up. 



D another plate, now hanging on its latch, but which 

 can be let down to shut up the ash pit or dish /, which can 

 be drawn out when the side facings FF are pulled irp. 6? 

 a circular plate or cap, which slides so as to shut the chim- 

 ney up close. 



Fig. 2, The body of the stove with the slider A moved 

 round to the back, and thus leaving the fire-place com- 

 pletely open. 



Fz'g. 3, The ash-dish shown separate. " *" 



Fig. 4, One of the side facings taken out to show the 

 figure H, which slides into a hole made in the corner of the 

 stove to hold it. 



in. 



Account of a Floating Light calculated to save the Lives of 

 Persons, who have the Misfor^tune to fall overboard in 

 the Night from any Ship. Invented hy Mr. Wm. Ship- 

 XEY, Founder of the Society for the Encovragement of 

 ArtSy Manufactures^ ajid Commerce"^. 



JL HIS floating light consists of a hollow vessel in the 

 form of a boat, made of tinned iron plate, a 6, Fig. 5, 

 Plate IX, the joints of which are carefully soldered, so as 

 to keep out the water. The boat is 27 inches long, 13 broad 

 in the middle,, and 12 deep, -ind is sufficient to support a 

 man in the water. From the gunwale of the boat, on each 

 side, projects a handle c c?, soldered fast to it for the man 

 to hold by. 



ef is a metal ring connected with the boat by four up- 

 right pieces, within which is another smaller ring, turning 

 on pivots, fastened to the ring e/, in the direction of the 

 hoaVs length; the internal ring supports a small lantern, g, 

 h^ an axis which passes through it, and is pivoted into the 

 ring at each end, in the direction of the boat's breadth. By 



* Transactions of the Society of Arts, vol. xxv, p. 94. 



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