The charcoal respirator possesses a decided advantage over respirators of the ordinary construction, in that all disagreeable effluvia are absorbed by the charcoal, so that comparatively pure air is alone inhaled.
As soon as that hole is pierced through into the room where the imprisoned men are, the doctor will go in, taking food, wine and medical supplies, and three respirators as well.
Along the gallery came a line of strange-eyed and humped figures, inhuman of appearance, wearing the newly devised respirators by which men can work in the most vitiated air without harm.
The group wore protective clothing and respirators and spent about 30 minutes in the area.
Since it was not known how much radioactive material might be suspended in the air, all personnel entering the ground zero area wore complete protective covering and respirators for the first three days after the detonation.
They wore respirators to prevent them from inhaling radioactive material (1; 10).
Men in the open air are unlikely to be seriously affected by poison gas shells, provided they put on respirators or helmets on first experiencing the gas.
O's must on no account remove or open up the masks of the box respirators or raise their helmets to give orders.
It must not be entered at all without respirators on for at least 3 hours.
Anti-gas fans should be used to assist in clearing the trenches of gas, so as to admit of respirators being removed.
Men must be warned that if they are slightly gassed before adjusting their respirators or helmets they must not remove them.
Gas helmets and respirators will be inspected if worn.
Box respirators to be put on immediately, the gas is apparent.
Respirators and helmets must not be removed until permission has been given by the Company Commander.
Box respirators or helmets should continue to be worn throughout the area bombarded with poison gas shells until the order is given by the local unit Commander for their removal.
Respirators on they were unable to peer a foot either way, sat down uncomfortably on the boards and waited for the attack to move away.
A move of 8000 yards in the dark with respirators is no easy matter to troops laden with battle equipment, and the men were somewhat exhausted on regaining the reserve position.
These working parties were equipped as lightly as possible, the men carrying water-bottles and respirators over the left shoulder; a bandolier of fifty rounds over the right shoulder; and their rifles with bayonet in scabbard fixed.
Thinking that Captain Shaw himself might have lungs more like mine than those of his fireman, I proposed that we should try the respirators together; but he informed me that his lungs were very strong.
We should not, for example, think that printing implied labour where the use of cotton-wool respirators might come into play; but the fact is that the dust arising from the sorting of the type is very destructive of health.
By the use of cotton-wool respirators these women might be caused to breathe air as free from suspended matter as that of the open street.
It was with this thought in my mind that I ventured to recommend, more than a year ago, the use of cotton-wool respirators in infectious places.
In this way, effluvia of all kinds may be virtually burnt up; and this is the principle of the excellent charcoal respirators invented by Dr.
When it was fairly clear of their own line the Germans began to move, all the men having first been provided with respirators that they might not experience the effects of the “harmless and painless” gas prepared for the enemy.
In order that the respirators may be always ready for use small quantities of anti-gas solution and water will be kept in readiness by the Medical personnel in front line for the purpose of re-moistening the respirators.
At the first sure sign of an impending gas attack a signal will be given for donning respirators and opening fire.
It is not desirable that the men should retain their respirators when in rest billets.
The respirators should be firmly placed over nose and mouth as soon as the gas penetrates the position.
The combined fire of our Artillery, Infantry, Machine Guns, Minenwerfer and Hand Grenades breaks up the gas clouds, and the respirators then afford complete protection against such gas as may reach our position.
The aim and object of all training in combating gas attack must be to instill into the troops complete confidence in the fact that our fire and the respiratorsafford complete protection against the effects of gas.
Girls' schools, women's societies, groups of friends and families buckled to, and in a remarkably short time the War Office was able to announce that no more respirators were needed.
Special respirators had been served out to the German soldiers, who were waiting in readiness to take advantage of this foul blow.
Battery Commander considered the air free from gas, and Box Respirators were accordingly removed.
Fifty million respirators were produced by the department, and of these nineteen million were box respirators.
Altogether, more than fifty million masks andrespirators of different kinds were manufactured by the British Anti-Gas Department for our own and Allied armies.
At one time over a quarter of a million small Box Respirators were produced weekly.
Another man said that in his Company no special drill or training was being done, and a large number of men were put out of action through not being able to adjust their respirators in time.
It appeared very difficult to penetrate the different forms of respirators by conditions obtainable in the field.
On previous nights they had been fired at with gas shell in the same way, but found it safe to remove Box Respirators after a couple of hours.
We learn that so strong was the gas discipline that in many cases respirators were adjusted before the arrival of the bombs, the resemblance to our projector attacks having been established at once.
Nightly did he pour thousands of gas shells into the battery positions, forcing the men to wear their box-respirators during what little rest they could achieve and depriving them of their badly-needed sleep.
Beyond getting things straight, little training was attempted except the fitting of small box respirators and instruction in their use, which was duly carried out.
We hoped secretly that the next bombardment would be deferred for a while, and inspected our box respirators carefully before turning in that night.
We were somewhat surprised to hear that we could go up on horseback, so after getting rid of spare kit and seizing tin helmets and box respirators we set off.
Eagle Trench was reached and found to contain a good deal of gas, so all ranks had to be continually on the alert to adjust their box-respirators during the remainder of the night.
Only one had ever been in the trenches before, and most of them were unprovided with either respirators or tin hats.
Nothing daunted, the Zouaves put on their respirators and drove off with hand grenades and rifle fire the Germans who followed in the wake of the poisonous shells.
The British had by now been equipped with proper respirators and could withstand a gas attack with comparative ease.
Though the British had been supplied with respirators of a sort, these means of defense were not as effective as they should have been nor as adequate as what was provided later.
Officer and man, horse and mule, back almost to General Headquarters to have their box respirators or gas masks put on!
Spacemen clapped emergency respirators to their faces and spoke unkindly of Rip's Planeteers in the saltiest space language possible.
Rip and his men picked up Koa and continued the march to the decontamination room, grinning under their respirators at the consternation around them.
There was no danger to the spacemen, since they had clapped on respirators the moment the warning sounded.
Spacemen clapped emergency respirators to their faces and spoke unkindly of Rip’s Planeteers in the saltiest space language they could think of.
Rip and his men picked up Koa and continued their march to the decontamination room, grinning under their respirators at the consternation around them.
There was no danger to the spacemen since they had clapped on respirators the moment the warning sounded.
So heavy was the enemy’s gas barrage on this day that some of the tank crews were forced to wear their respirators for over two hours on end.
The German troops who attacked under cover of these gases were provided with specially designed respirators which were issued in sealed patent covers.
There was a Corps standing order that steel helmets should be worn and box-respirators kept in the alert position in this part of the line.
Their tin hats and box-respirators have always been the same make as ours.
There was a slight smell of gas, and without a word to each other we placed our box-respirators in the alert position.
One shell dropped within twenty yards of us; thrice fairly heavy shell splinters played an unnerving tattoo upon our thick iron roof; once we were forced to wear our box-respirators for half an hour.
Respirators assisted men to stay in their trenches in spite of the coming of the noxious fumes.
Every one of us wore respirators or masks when near Ypres, though "Babe" Nicholson inhaled sufficient gas through his respirator to render him unconscious for five minutes after a "dash up front.
We were literally chased by gas-shells; we had to run in respirators as fast as we could go; we came round by the Menin Gate and got back into the Ramparts, safe and sound, about 4.
We got our respirators on, which added to our discomfort.
Giffin, who was the senior officer present at the time, ordered respirators on.
There was an inspection of box-respirators and rifles this afternoon.
The thick respirators which we all wore added to the strange appearance.
We looked first to the windows to see that they were closed, and we got ready our respirators to put them on when the time should be close at hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "respirators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
