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PLAN  . MIDSHIP SECTION . of horse launching-poles, first used in 1892 . Fig . 9 gives a view of the modern transporting-carriage fitted with Tipping's sand- or wheel-plates . The life-belt has since 1898 been considerably improved, being now less cumbersome than formerly, and more comfortable . The feature of the principal improvement is the reduction in length of the corks under the arms of the wearer and the rounding-off of the upper portions, the result being that considerably more freedom is provided for the arms . The maximum extra buoyancy has thereby been reduced from 25 lb to 22 lb, which is more than sufficient to support a man heavily clothed with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to ObD• FLAN . MIDSHIP SECTION, support another person besides himself .. Numerous life-belts of very varied descriptions, and made of all sorts of materials, have been patented, but it is generally agreed that for life-boat work the cork life-belt of the Institution has not yet been equalled .