Hocks Hearing Healthcare Products

3930 SW Kelly Avenue
Portland, OR 97239
ph: 503-274-9482
fax: 503-222-3539
alt: 800-654-6257
customerservice@hocksproducts.com

Hocks Noise Braker®

How the Noise Braker® Works - Protect Your Hearing Using the Laws of Physics

The Accelerated Resonant Decay Principle

It is an axiom of physics that we cannot create or destroy energy. We can, however, convert it.

The Hocks Noise Braker Filter® converts sonic energy into thermal energy by means of compression acceleration. The rise in temperature is so minute you will never notice it.

You can still hear, but a dangerous level of sound can not possibly get through the filter.

The Noise Braker® is a filter.

As such, it lets air and sound through. The Noise Braker® is designed to reduce the intensity of sound waves, as the sound waves get stronger. The wearer can carry on a normal conversation. The normal voice can be heard with a slight reduction of volume, while the background noise is filtered out to a greater extent.

Normal hearing protection seals off the ear with an insulating material, such as foam, or silicone, blocking sound from entering the ear. Ears are protected, but these plugs can create problems:

In addition to the frustration of having to shout to carry on a conversation, workers are frequently unable to hear warning sounds or alarms.

Having the ear completely sealed off can leave the wearer with a stuffy, plugged up feeling.

The Noise Braker® was created to help with these problems.

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Hocks filtered Noise Brakers are made to be continuously worn without discomfort, and permit conversational sound, air and changes of air pressure to enter the user's ear. Noise Brakers reduce harmful noise to non-damaging decibel levels.

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Custom Noise Braker® Test Data

Standard Noise Braker Test Data

Printable Noise Braker Information

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At Work and at Play

According to our surveys, over 60% of industrial users also wear their Noise Brakers for personal use.

This data testifies to both the effectiveness and the comfort of our hearing protection.

Noise Brakers® allow users to carry on normal conversations with other people, are very comfortable, and allow the user to hear important sounds and warning signals at all times.

These benefits, along with the hearing protection they provide, are great at work and at play.

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Worldwide, Hocks Noise Braker products are recognized by industry and physicians as superior aural protection devices. Dispensing the Noise Braker will enhance your sales of hearing aids now and in the future.

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Custom vs Standard

Noise Brakers®

Custom Noise Brakers® are made from an impression taken from a person's ear. They completely seal off the ear. Any sound entering the ear will pass through the Noise Braker® filter.

The ear mold is made, a hole is drilled into it, and the filter is placed in the hole. Because each plug is made for an individual, Custom Noise Brakers offer better protection than Noise Braker® Standards.

Different Ear Pieces

Noise Braker® Standards are just that, standard. They are mass produced ear tips with the Noise Braker® filter inserted in the body.

The soft accordion style tip has three flanges that seal the ear from sound and keep the plug in the ear, leaving only one way for sound to enter the ear - through the Noise Braker® filter, thus allowing the filter to do it's job.

The effectiveness of Noise Braker® Standards depends on how well the ear is sealed. This can change depending on the size and shape of a person's ear. Because the Standards are mass produced, they are lower in cost than Custom Noise Brakers®.

How you can Benefit from Noise Brakers®

Hearing Protection For Everyday Living

Millions of hearing protection plugs are sold each year to hunters, farmers, and industrial workers, the latter being in the majority since the passage of 50.204.10 of the Walsh-Healey Act, Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA).

The increased concern by industry, government, and public over the industrial hearing safetly will continue until everyone exposed to dangerous noise levels owns some type of approved protection.

Many people are not only faced with damaging noise on the job, they face it in everyday life.

Potential activities that can damage hearing include the following:

operating recreational equipment such as snowmobiles, motorcycles, and motorboats
attending sporting events such as football games, basketball games, stock car races
operating lawn equipment
attending rock concerts
going to air shows
firing weapons while hunting, or during target practice

Although these activities can damage hearing, many people do not wear hearing protection.

Why not? They cannot hear other people as well, or their hearing protection is too uncomfortable. This is where Noise Brakers® clearly benefit the wearer.

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