January 10, 1913.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

93

A RESCUE APPARATUS SHOULD ITSELF BE SAFE.

This may seem a platitude, but there are apparatuses on the market that are not safe under all conditions.

THE SAFEST RESCUE APPARATUS

IS THE

“PROTO’ SELF-CONTAINED

BREATHING APPARATUS.

(Fleuss=Davis Patents).

THE ONLY APPARATUS ALWAYS UNDER POSITIVE PRESSURE

NO INJECTOR

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is used, as in the foreign types, consequently there is no
risk of drawing the surrounding poisonous atmosphere into
the apparatus (see reports of recent fatal accidents due to
this cause, both in England and abroad, and read Professor
Cadman’s address to the South Staffordshire and Warwick-
shire Institute of Mining Engineers— vide “ Colliery Guardian ”
of December 20th, 1912).







WE EXPERIMENTED WITH THE INJECTOR SYSTEM
YEARS AGO (long before any of the other makers
commenced business), but, realising its dangers, WE
DISCARDED IT, and have since consistently condemned its
use. Moreover, there is always a danger that the micro=
scopic orifices of the injector may get choked, and so put
the whole apparatus out of action.

THE “ PROTO ” is not only THE SAFEST, it is
also the MOST COMPACT, THE MOST COM-
THE SIMPLEST, and the MOST
RESCUE APPARATUS ON THE

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PORTABLE
HYGIENIC
MARKET.

It has been exclusively adopted by over one hundred mines in this Country
alone during the past two years, and by the Lancashire and Cheshire, the
North Staffordshire, and the Midland Coalowners’ Central Rescue Stations
after exhaustive trials (at Birmingham University and elsewhere) with all types.

It is also extensively used by the United States. Canadian, Australian, South African,
and other Government Mining Departments.

(fend for our Tiulietin of (ferioud *€aded id here the dtpparatud had been employed,

including -ffulton, I'ftaypole, and other coliieried.

IT IS THE ONLY ALL-BRITISH APPARATUS ON THE MARKET,

AND IS THE PROTOTYPE OF ALL APPARATUS OF ITS CLASS.

It has saved lives and an immense amount of property. It has never cost a life.

We make also:—SMOKE HELMETS, OXYGEN REVIVING APPARATUS, COMPRESSION PUMPS, &c., &c„ &c.

SIEBE, GORMAN and CO. LTD.,

“Neptune” Works, & 187, Westminster Bridge Rd., London, ENGLAND

Telegrams—“ Siebe, London.”	Codes: Al, A B C (4th & 5th), Western Union, Engineering, Private. Telephone No. Hop 251.