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1 Clayton, Richard, 9 Gresham Street — Inventor.
The swimming-glove, designed and formed after the
web-foot shape.
2 Clarkson, T. C., Ill Strand — Inventor.
Models of life-boats, formed of cork, &c.
3 Exall, W., Beading —Inventor and Manufacturer.Anchor without beam or stock, and having three flukes
or grapples, all of which will lay hold at the same time.
4 Murray, James —Inventor.
Model of harpoon gun.
5 Light, E., 216 High Street, Wapping —Inventor and
Designer.
Models of life-belts and buoys.
Model life-boat, 5 feet long, fitted with patent “ buoy-ancy ” material, and apparatus, tubes and valves complete.
Model of another, for light transport in exploratoryexpeditions, and to cross rivers, lakes, &c.
Piece of patent “ buoyancy ” material, as fitted andadapted in ships, yachts, boats, and belts.
Specimen of ladies’ and gentlemen’s yachting jacket;its object is to completely support the body in case ofaccidental immersion in the w-ater.
Model of a yacht’s boat with patent “ buoyancy ”arrangements.
6 Reekes, T., 50 Hasher Street, Chelsea —Inventor.Nautical cap, which can be immediately converted into
a safety swimming belt.
7 Foster, J., R.N. —Inventor.
Specimen of w T ood and India-rubber joinings.
8 Vickers, Wm. Randall, 32 Baker Street, Portman Sq.
—Designer.
Geometrical floating life-belt, made of sail canvas, anddivided into five compartments, stuffed with cork-cuttings.Models of strong sail-canvas, made up for stufiing.Samples of the sail-canvas, and two sample bags of thecork cuttings. The life-belt can be folded up (nearly inthe form of a cube) and made to serve as a cushion onboard ship. If one of these compartments should betorn, the rest would still form a useful belt. It is made tosurround the body of the wearer, and leave his arms free.
9 Holbrook, J. N., 4 Bemington Street, City Boad —Inventor.
Polar life-preserver.
Wood raft, to be carried on board ships.
Tubular raft for same purpose.
Large round floater, to be thrown out to drowningpersons.
Captain’s life-preserver.
Gentleman ’s fishing-stand, for the middle of rivers.
Ladies’ bathing machine, by which they may withsafety go far out, in fine weather, and obtain the fullbenefit of the sea, and be brought to shore by a lineattached.
Small bottomless life-boat.
The same made of copper, to be placed on the sea-shore.
Model of an iron bottomless life-boat, 26 feet long.It is suitable for the roughest sea and actual service, incase of fire or shipwreck. The boat is made entirely ofwrought and sheet iron, lined and covered with strongnetting. Its dimensions are 26 feet long, 8 feet wide,and 3 feet deep, with iron gunwale 21 inches high; therod and bar iron is about 800 feet, with 6 floaters madeof 105 pieces of sheet iron, filled with 300 feet of tubingformed into 1 50 air and waterproof barrels, with 15 tanks,holding 222 gallons for fresh water; provisions, warmclothing, compass, alarm apparatus, fuel, fireworks,rockets, with 1,000 feet of line attached. The whole isfirmly secured together with about 400 screws and bolts,and riveted with 10,000 rivets. There is in the figure-head a simply-constructed kettle, by the same inventor,that will boil in 10 minutes 8 quarts of coffee. The
rudder can be shipped or unshipped in a few seconds, andoars and sail applied if required; the total weight is20 cwt.
The boat having no bottom renders it almost impossibleto capsize, and should its six floaters become punctured,full of holes, and all filled with water, the numerousbarrels inside will be amply sufficient to prevent itsinking—such is the buoyancy, that it will carry nearly150 persons and food for many days.
Model of a life and body preserver.
White glass ginger-beer bottle, and green glass soda-water bottle, in the use of which no cork, string, or wir eis required; they are also suitable for ale, porter, wine,&c. The stopper will not give the liquor any unpleasantsmell or taste.
10 Lee, Thomas, 4 Bread Street Hill —Designer andManufacturer.
Improved life-preserver, or swimming-belt, to sustainthe wearer in an upright position in the water.
11 Spencer, Edward, 116 Fenchurch Street —Manufacturer.
Patent buoyant and water-tight trunk, capable of sus-taining fifteen persons in the water.
13 Hely, Alfred Augustus, 16 Manchester Buildings,Westminster —Inventor.
The catamaran, or life-float, composed of waterproofcanvas cylindrical cases, filled with bedding, clothing’provisions, stores, or any matter of less specific gravitythan w’ater.
Salvage boat, wholly composed of metallic tubes, form-ing atmospheric and hydraulic chambers, with loadedkeel and self-shifting wheels.
Life-girdle, composed of spherical floats strung uponan endless elastic band.
Patent cork-driving apparatus and vent-bottle.
14 Bell, Hugh, Baltic Wharf, Millbank, Westminster—
Inventor and Manufacturer.
Model of a “ water grapnel,” or “ deep-sea anchor.”Model of a “ submarine boat,” to pass closed underwater, scale one inch to the foot.
Model, on the same scale, of a “locomotive divihrbell,” which may be used as a common diving bell, w 1 * 1the apparatus usually attached for forcing in air.
Life-boat, for the beach, on the scale of one inch to thefoot.
15 Royal Huma ne Society —Proprietors.Ice-boat, presented to the Royal Humane Society J4
the society established at Hamburg, constructed, for lig' 1 *'ness, of wicker-work, and covered with raw hides; beingplaced upon rockers, this boat may be propelled on the i®with great facility, and in cases where a number of s ^ at f’ rbreak through in one spot, it has proved invaluable tsaving lives. _ . , t
Breaker ladder; a simple ladder with two air-t'fPbarrels fixed at its broad end: being secured uponwheels it may be used by one man with ease. On 1immersion of a skater, the broad end of the ladderpushed into the hole; the buoyant power of the hart ^allows the drowning man to climb on to the inac ”J; I) g'and to walk along it to its narrow end, which, resupon the sound ice, affords the means of escape. , eeIce sledge, composed of two canoes united by tthwarts, forming thereby a floating platform. U ca we rused on the ice with ease; it has great buoyant(being capable of sustaining as many persons as ccling to it), and cannot be capsized. . t jde
Rope drag, used for dragging in deep water with ^or running stream. When persons fall into the ^ sc( jfrom vessels or steam-boat piers, this machine can be ewith greater certainty and in less time over a S iven t , s isthan any other kind of drag. The above appayn onprovided by the Royal Humane Society at stati ceSthe River Thames , and on canals, docks, and P ‘where they are most needed.