Abstract: A lighted handle includes an elongate light transmitting member that has first and second end portions. First and second support surface engageable mounting brackets carry the first and second end portions of the light transmitting member. A narrow beam light emitter is located in the first mounting bracket and has a light beam emitting end. The light beam emitting end faces the adjacent first end portion of the light transmitting member and is aimed longitudinally along the light transmitting member to make the same more visible.

Abstract: A light assembly (20) that includes a frame (28) and a body (22) disposed within the frame. A reflector (26), a socket (46) and a bulb (24) are disposed in the body. A lens (30) is fitted over the reflector, socket and bulb. The lens is snap fitted in a bezel ring (32). The bezel ring is snap fitted over to the body so as to be positioned around the reflector. The body is snap-fitted to the frame. An assembler of the light assembly of this invention can maintain a stock of frames, bodies and bezel rings that have different colors or other characteristics, such as on/off switches. Upon receiving an order for a light assembly in which the specific characteristics of the color are specified, the assembler selects the appropriate components from stock and assembles them together to provide the desired assembly.

Abstract: Ski tow assembly for being secured to the transom of a boat. The ski tow fixture has an elongated vertically aligned body. Legs at the opposed ends of the fixture body secure the fixture to the transom. The body is further formed so as to define an elongated generally elliptically shaped opening through which a tow line is inserted. The tow line is coupled over a finger that extends diagonally upwards toward the transom from a small tap attached to a lower part of the fixture and that projects inwardly toward the transom. The assembly includes opposed rails that are mounted to the transom that are coupled to the opposed ends of the fixture by ears that extend outward from the ends of the fixture.

Abstract: A fitting for securing a hose to a port formed in a support panel. The fitting includes a face plate that is fitted over the port. A set of spaced apart lock tabs extend inwardly from the face plate. A set of fingers also extend inwardly from the face plate. The fingers are located adjacent to and diametrically outwardly from interstitial gaps between the lock tabs. The hose is secured around the lock tabs and in the interstitial gaps. When the hose-and-fitting assembly is secured in a port, the fingers both lock the fitting in position and compression secure the hose to the fitting.

Abstract: A holder for beverage containers has a back panel flanged for flush mounting on an upstanding support surface and a pivoting base panel and clamp member pivotable between forward extending use positions wherein they can support and grip a beverage container, and a folded non-use position. Movement between these positions is resiliently resisted by a generally square pin-in-hole connection surrounded by circumferentially spaced slots spaced from corresponding edges of the holes by thin, resiliently bendable, leaves deflectable by corners on the pins.

Abstract: A lighted grab handle particularly adapted for use at entry doorways on a large vehicle. The handle has a chamber in one end at an interior facing surface and which contains a recessed light socket. In use, light splashes on the vehicle wall on which the grab handle is mounted, making the handle easier to see in the dark.

Abstract: A light fixture, particularly adapted for use in vehicles, including land recreational vehicles and boats, comprises a base fixable on a mounting surface of a vehicle and including provision for mounting a lamp to shine forward from the base. A light transmitting lens mounts in front of the base for covering a lamp mounted on the base. The lens is convexly shaped and laterally overhangs the base with a peripheral portion adapted to lie close to the mounting surface at a height less than the height of the base. The lens has a central portion extending from the peripheral portion and overlapping the base for transmitting light from a lamp on the base. A lamp actuating switch is located on the base under the lens and upon depression of the lens by the user changes the state of the switch and the condition of illumination of the light fixture.

Abstract: A waterproof flush-mountable marine horn assembly includes a generally cup-shaped housing having a bottom wall and upstanding side wall means. The side wall means includes a top edge portion which defines a top rim of the housing, which top rim defines thereinside an opening in said housing. A flange extends from the top rim in a direction substantially opposite the housing opening and has a top surface facing away from the bottom wall and surrounding the opening. A horn is disposed within and secured to the housing. A water-proof membrane is stretched across the housing opening and secured to the top surface of the flange so as to completely cover the housing opening.

Abstract: A support for a table top or the like is provided by a leg having end portions over and to each of which is mounted a sleeve of a material characterized by a frusto-conical exterior surface and a high coefficient of friction. Each sleeved end of the leg is designed to seat in and tightly and frictionally engage one of the sockets to provide rigid support for the table top and each sleeve is provided with a releasable latch to prevent separation of the leg from the socket in the absence of intentional detachment of the latch by an operator.

Abstract: A ski tow fixture for removably securing a ski tow rope to a boat hull includes a generally elongate base unit supporting two bent portions having a generally common axis of bending and being generally sidewardly spaced along the common axis and generally sidewardly aligned. The bent portions are spaced from an end of the elongate base unit. Each bent portion extends from the base unit to a free end near the above-mentioned end of the base unit.

Abstract: A portlight for installing at an opening in a wall of a boat, comprising an interior frame surrounding an open viewing area. The interior frame comprises an axially extending spigot for outward insertion in an opening in a wall of a boat and an interior flange extending radially outward from the spigot to overlap the interior face of the wall of the boat. An exterior frame surrounds an open viewing area. Plural fasteners fixedly clamp, between the interior flange and exterior flange, the rim of the opening in the wall of the boat. A pair of widely-spaced holes through the interior flange receive screw means for biting into the adjacent wall of the boat and thereby temporarily fix the interior flange on the wall of the boat to allow a single installer to place the exterior flange and install the plural fastener means and thereby clamp the exterior flange and interior flange on the rim of the opening in the wall of the boat.

Abstract: A light fixture, mountable on a wall, comprises a backing member and a support for a light emitter in front of the backing member, a shade member mountable on the backing member in a position to interfere with at least some of the light rays emanating from the light emitter forwardly of the backing member mounting structure for removably fixing the shade member on the backing member, the shade member comprising a substantially rigid band of forwardly convex and rearwardly concave shape having lateral ends releasably fixed to respective lateral ends of the backing member and having a central portion spaced forwardly of a central portion of the backing member and offset forwardly of the position of the light emitter, the shade member being elastically deformable to allow forcing a temporary resiliently resisted springing apart of its ends, the mounting structure enabling the corresponding lateral ends of the backing member and shade member to establish a releasable snap fit connections therebetween.

Abstract: A transom light includes a lamp and a shroud attached to the lamp. The shroud includes a hollow part and a flange, both arranged substantially concentrically relative to a central axis of the lamp. The hollow part is adapted to receive the lamp therein, and the shroud flange is axially received within a transparent lens such that it is surrounded by an axially projecting lip upstanding from the lens. A gasket is disposed axially against the shroud flange opposite the lens so as to axially overlap both the shroud flange and the lip of the lens. An arrangement is provided for securing the lens, shroud flange and gasket to a watercraft hull, with the lamp and the hollow part of the shroud received in an opening in the hull. Structure is provided on the lens to retain thereon a decorative bezel arrangement.

Abstract: A means for detachably connecting a load supporting member on a pedestal structure incorporates a separable joint between the pedestal leg and the brackets it engages at each end. The means utilizes a sleeve of synthetic resin having surface lubricity which sleeve is bonded to the pedestal leg and has a conical exterior surface which detachably seats into a complementary conical socket of a bracket for connecting the leg either to its support or to the load.

Abstract: A holder for containers, such as pop cans, beverage cups and the like has a back panel designed to be mounted on generally vertical support. The holder at its lower end has a base member to seat the bottom of the container and at its upper end a pair of arms designed to embrace and hold the container. The arms are supported on a track for independent sliding movement to provide adjustment of the size of the opening between the arms. Detent means provide resistance to the sliding movement at various increments of spacing between the arms.

Abstract: A dual light source lighting fixture is made up of two identical single light source fixtures, the housings of which are identical. Each housing has one square end and each is symmetrical about an axis normal to the square end so that the single housing can be assembled into a double housing in an end to end relationship simply by removing an end cover, locking the housings together by use of a connector and covering the joint with a snap-on cover.

Abstract: A rope anchor for use in situations in which frequent attachment and removal of the rope is required. The anchor has a U-shaped bracket which is secured to a support such as the transom of a boat. The bracket has a central finger midway between and parallel to the bracket legs. The portion of the finger adjacent its attachment to the closed end of the bracket is in the same plane as the bracket legs but the inner end of the finger is bent out of this plane at a minor angle. The legs have stops which position the bracket such that the end of the finger is so spaced from the surface of the bracket support as to create a passage for the rope less than the normal diameter of the rope but large enough to permit the rope to be passed through it when the rope has been diametrically squeezed in one direction. This prevents inadvertent release of the rope when it is slack.