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The Gra-Maze Uranium Comforter (ca. 1965) |
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"This is your personal radioactive uranium
comforter. Actually your own health mine in miniature," reads the inscription on the
Gra-Maze Uranium Comforter, a device that was produced and distributed from a residential
garage in La Salle, Illinois. The comforter was a 1960s version of J. Bernard King's Ray Cura, produced in the 1920s. The latter was a quilted pad containing what was supposed to be a new form of radium. However, the Ray Cura contained nothing but ordinary soil from Nevada, and King was put out of business for the misleading claims he made about the pad's radioactivity. The maker of the Gra-Maze Uranium Comforter practiced no such deception. If you followed the suggestion on the pad and checked it with a Geiger counter, you would find it to be measurably radioactive. Nevertheless, production of the comforter was short-lived; the federal authorities were no fonder of the Gra-Maze Uranium Comforter than they were of the Ray Cura. Size: 8" x 13" Exposure Rate: ca. 3-4 uR/hr above background at one foot |
| Donated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission courtesy of Darrel Wiedeman. | |
