filters
detach at
velcro join
soft
silicone
mouthpiece
inhale
exhale
GILLS AIR SHIELD
Even at depth, a scuba diver’s mouthpiece keeps lungs
totally free of seawater. The Gills mouthpiece is softer,
safer and far more comfortable. Our unique, two-way
GILLS BREATHER
valve plate controls both inhalation and exhalation – no
stale air can ever be re-breathed. Whether bearded or
clean-shaven, you can be confident of a leak-proof seal.
is searching for a manufacturer/distributor for this ground-breaking innovation.
Quality occupational health for a new millennium.
A REVOLUTION IN THE EVOLUTION OF
LUNG PROTECTION.
exhale
Gills Air Shield may incorporate a nose shield that will
hide the nose clip without touching the face. Air Shield
filters can be either disposable or re-fillable hard cases.
No matter what your trade, the Gills Breather will never
fog your goggles or your visor. Filter refills covering all
contaminants are quick and easy to remove & replace.
GILLS AIR SHIELD
State of the Art Mouthpiece Respirators that
don’t touch your face, cheeks, chin or throat.
regulator
When your workplace atmosphere is lethal, non-filterable or unknown, connect compressed air to your Gills
Breather, which will purify it to International Standards.
GILLS BREATHER
Your Gills Breather may also be connected by hose to a
source of clean air outside your workplace. When filtration is difficult, Gills still gives you maximum protection.
nose
clip
inhale
inhale
inhale
through
fabric
breather
inside
hood
The Gills Escape Hood
provides long-term survival in disasters & fires.
comp.air
Gills pressurized hoods
provide superb comfort
and also back-up filters.
Very high capacity belt
filters will purify ambient
as well as compressed air.
filter &
power
pack
Gills Powered Air Hoods
feature emergency backup self rescue filters.
GILLS INNOVATIONS ARE PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL PATENT APPLICATION No. PCT/AU 2009/000738
Inventor: Michael James Gill, 836 Sawyers Ridge Rd. Reidsdale NSW 2622, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
exhale
loose
detachable
tether
The world’s safest, most comfortable
and convenient respirators, the Gills
have no straps, buckles or harnesses, no
irritating rubber-to-face seals. They are
removed and replaced in the twinkling
glides
smoothly
here
exhale
of an eye – no fitting or re-fitting. They
are entirely compatible with all other
safety gear. Their instant removability
allows unencumbered speech, drinking
and phone use at any time, with ease.
THE GILLS SYSTEM FEATURES A VITAL LONG-AWAITED ADVANCE –
A FAILSAFE SENSORY WARNING OF EXACTLY WHEN YOU NEED TO
CHANGE YOUR GAS AND VAPOUR FILTERS.
STILL COUGHING AND WHEEZING INTO
which cannot give adequate protection in all
GIVE YOUR LUNGS A BREATHER.
THE GILLS BREATHER RE-WRITES THE
THE THIRD MILLENIUM.
toxic atmospheres.
USE YOUR GILLS.
SAFETY CATALOGUES.
Every day, people are hospitalised due to
You must be clean-shaven to use them.
The Gills Respiratory System is revolution-
The Breather’s yoke-like filter case design
lung disease. Some die in burning buildings
That mask-to-face seal is essential and
ary in that it has solved all the old problems
allows filters of extremely high capacity to be
and bush fires from asphyxiation by smoke
speaking whilst wearing one can seriously
identified above, principally because Gills
used. The extra weight is carried on the
inhalation and from poisoning by the gases
compromise that vital seal.
respirators do not leak, have no supporting
trapezius muscles (on either side of the neck)
straps and do not touch the user’s cheeks,
and not on the face or the head.
given off during combustion.
The same dangers are faced by the
HOW DO I KNOW WHEN TO CHANGE
emergency services, by chemical workers,
MY GAS FILTER?
underground miners, builders, agricultural
A nasty question manufacturers have been
weed sprayers, welders, asbestos workers, the dreading for decades. Particulate filters restrict
chin, throat or neck.
Even a humble diver’s mouthpiece will
coarsest dusts to IDLH atmospheres –
unique mouthpiece is a compact, unparalleled
Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health.
Gills respirators will purify compressed
inhalation when they are clogged, but Gas
design, combining maximum oral comfort with
daily lives, in our DIY activities or by accident,
filters (when they are exhausted and cease to
optimum ease of respiration.
at home, at work or commuting.
absorb hazardous vapours) simply allow toxins
WHY IS RESPIRATORY PROTECTION
SUCH A NIGHTMARE?
breath.
If the poisons you are using have no
models that provide protection from the
provide a perfect seal under water. The Gills
military and just about all of us, whether in our
to pass into your lungs with each subsequent
The Gills System includes respirator
Gills respirators have no “snout” or bad-air
chamber to hold old, stale, exhaled air.
air or channel clean air from outside the work
area. They will pressurize protective
hoods for maximum comfort and extend
Most Gills filters are re-fillable, not
the working time of SCBA - Self Contained
disposable, thus reducing cost and waste.
Breathing Apparatus and also Powered Air
With the nose clip in place, all Gills
Purifying Respirators (PAPR).
Personal respirators have remained, for
odour, or your sense of smell is impaired by
decades, ugly, uncomfortable, inconvenient
smoking or a head cold, you just don’t know
respirators may be instantly removed and
and difficult to use safely. They still consist of
you are breathing contaminated air.
replaced to enable drinking, clear speech and
fail-safe, self-rescue filter back-up system.
phone use – no fitting or re-fitting is necessary
State of the Art Respiratory Protection.
rubber-like masks – both half-face and full-face Standards have outlawed smell as an in– strapped tightly to the head and face. Is it
dicator, and insist that you formulate a gas
and no other safety gear need be removed
any wonder that the industry faces such strong
filter changeover schedule. A nightmare.
beforehand.
The Gills System has eliminated inward
“wearer resistance”?
Each of these high-end devices has a
UNIQUE SENSORY WARNING OF GAS
FILTER FAILURE.
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT HALF-FACE
leakage via exhalation valves. The filters of
A harmless indicator chemical with a fail-
heavy, smelly, sweaty, claustrophobic and are
MASKS CAN LEAK?
Gills Breathers are designed to reduce any
safe irritant sensory warning will alert you the
awkward to fit and re-fit correctly.
Their protection rating tells all. Standards deny
“break-through” to unprecedented levels.
moment your gas filter begins to fail.
People hate wearing them. They are too
They are known to have inward leakage
them a P3 rating (very fine particles, viruses
Vision is unencumbered – the respirator
Gills International Patent Application
problems and to trap stale air, allowing it to be
and bacteria) so that P3 filters may not be
doesn’t extend past the tip of your nose and,
has received a 100% positive Report on Pat-
re-breathed. They often interfere with other
fitted to a half-face respirator mask.
because exhaled air exits behind your head,
entability – all 36 claims have been found to be
your eye protection or visor won’t fog up.
novel, inventive and original.
safety gear, fog up goggles and visors and
restrict the vision of the user.
If they leak enough to be allowed P2 filters
only (medium sized particles, dust, smoke,
If you work in a piggery, feed lot or sewer,
Full details of the Gills System’s vast range of
mists and fumes), then just how can a gas
in cadaver recovery, exhumations or post-
configurations can be seen on a PDF showing
be torture, so people wear them too loose or
filter on a half-mask keep out all dangerous
mortems, then you need never again smell or
all our patent documents:
resort to cheaper, lighter, disposable masks
gases, vapours and solvents?
ingest these odious substances.
www.braidwoodmade.com.au/PDF/gills.html
Straps tight enough to stop leaks can