Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — NEW INVENTION MAKES FIREMEN SMOKE-PROOF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW INVENTION MAKES FIREMEN SMOKE-PROOF

NEW D. Halloran, a fireman attached to Engine Company No. 20 of this city. Is the inventor of a simple but effective smoke-mask that has been given a successful test amid trying conditions. The apparatus consists of a branch pipe fixed to the ordinary fire-hose nozzle, to which are attached three flexible tubes equipped at their ends with rubber nose pieces. To the branch pipe is attached a length of heavily wired garden hose, the further end of which is allowed to trail behind on the street as the firemen enter a burning building. As tbe stream of water rushes through the hose, it sucks in a current of air through the garden hoße, which goes \la the small pipes to the nose pieces and is there breathed by the “smoke-eaters.” The Invention was tried out in a scorching cellar fire recently and worked like a charm.