From Rick Berkheiser

"The South Bend Tribune", Thursday, September 21, 1961, page 49

HARVEY COVER DIES AT AGE 94

Invented Goggles for Industrial Workers.

     Harvey S. Cover, inventor of industrial goggles, died at 3:15 a. m. today in the River Park Nursing Home at the age of 94.  He resided at 3905 S. Michigan St. where he operated the firm of H. S. Cover Manufacturers.

     Born in Genners, Pa., on March 1, 1867, Cover had lived in South Bend since 1890, coming here from Goshen.  He attended Purdue University, West Lafayette, and graduated from Armour Institute, Chicago, with an engineering degree.

     Cover became interested in dust protection for industrial workers while he was employed as a youth in a flour mill.

     In 1894 he made his first respirator, a face mask to protect industrial workers from dust.  Several models of his respirator were used in factories throughout the world and in the diamond mines of South Africa and the nitrate mines of Chile.  His work also was adapted to the manufacture of gas masks in World War I.

Copied by Germans.

     In the early 1900's Cover also invented goggles for motorists.  The goggles, which grew out of his invention of a face protector for firemen, were copied by German manufacturers and from 1908 to 1912 Cover sued his imitators five times in federal courts, winning two of his suits and collecting a 10-cent royalty for each pair of German goggles shipped into the United States.

     In later years he also made goggles for swimmers.  His inventions first were manufactured by the former Western Rubber Co. of Goshen.

     "Life begins at 65," Cover once said, explaining that he had done his best work since that age.  He maintained an experimental laboratory in his home.

Funeral on Saturday.

     Cover married Katie Berkheiser on June 26, 1895.  She died in 1950.

     Surviving are a daughter, Miss Estelle C. Cover, of South Bend; a son, Harold, of Anaheim, Calif.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Lillie Cover, of Warren, Ind.

     Friends may call after noon Friday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home where services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday by Rev. Kenneth R. Hemphill, pastor of First Methodist Church.  Entombment will be in the Highland Mausoleum.

     Cover was a member of the church, the Indiana Academy of Science, the South Bend Round Table and the Octogenarian Club.

"The South Bend Tribune", Saturday, September 23, 1961, page 10

     COVER -- Pallbearers for Harvey S. Cover, 94, of 3905 S. Michigan St., were Dallas Miller, Robert W. Latta, Fred B. Lyddick, William Trowbridge, F. B. Curtis and Rudolph Campbell.  Funeral services for Mr. Cover, who died Thursday, were held today, with entombment in the Highland Mausoleum.