Abstract: A device for an anchor comprising an anchor shank, which anchor is to be handled by means of a chaser. The chaser is paid out to the anchor along an anchor line on a separate chaser line and seized on the anchor. The device comprises means arranged for turning the anchor with the chaser resting on an abutment provided on said means. The means is included in the assembly of said shank and the anchor line, thus allowing an in-line, arrangement of said means, the shank and the anchor line.

Abstract: A pressurized container is utilized to store a fire extinguishing agent under pressure and incorporates a valve. A valve actuator, for actuating the valve to permit flow of the fire extinguishing agent from the container, includes a pair of substantially U-shaped levers opening towards each other. A first one of the levers pivots towards a second one of the levers and carries a latching member in the form of a U-shaped wire pivoted on said first member and coacting with an end of the second one of the levers to latch the levers in valve actuated condition. Flow of the fire extinguishing agent is directed through a hose fixedly attached to the outlet of the valve and a nozzle with an adjustable pattern attached to an end of the hose opposite the outlet of the valve thus enabling the user to spray the fire. Alternatively, a bayonet type nozzle may be attached to the end of the hose, allowing a wall to be punctured or pierced.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for improved in-car slurrying of dry bulk powder is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of mutually spaced conduits which extend downwardly from a manifold through the center of each hopper compartment in a hopper car, each conduit opening about one foot above the bottom of the compartment. As water is admitted at the bottom of each compartment, air under pressure is dispensed through the conduits to aerate the center of the bulk powder in each compartment, and the conduits themselves provide a path for the water upwardly through the center of the bulk powder.

Abstract: A filter system that is portable and has no moving parts usable for industrial purposes to filter dry fluid substances such as Barite, Hemitite, cement and the like. Within a filter housing are a cyclone separator for removing heavier substance and a fine filter for filtering lighter powdery substance. The inlet to the housing is connectable to the vent of a storage receptacle to which substance is being transferred under the power of a blower. The blower creates the stream that causes substance to flow through the filter system so that no other power means is required. To purge the filter system, a normally capped outlet is connected directly to the storage receptacle and a vent port from the filter housing is connected directly to the blower means. The blower means is operated in spurts to create bursts of air in a direction opposite to the filtering direction to dislodge powder from the fine filter and blow the powder and heavier particles from the filter housing directly into the storage receptacle.

Abstract: A marine propulsion device comprising a mounting bracket adapted to be mounted on the transom of a boat, and a propulsion unit pivotally mounted on the mounting bracket for pivotal movement relative to the mounting bracket about a generally vertical steering axis, the propulsion unit including a rotatably mounted propeller, a lower drive assembly drivingly connected to the propeller and having a generally vertical axis of rotation, an upper drive assembly adapted to be driven by an engine and having a generally vertical axis of rotation, and a floating drive shaft connecting the upper drive assembly to the lower drive assembly and permitting misalignment of the upper drive assembly axis of rotation relative to the lower drive assembly axis of rotation.

Abstract: A walker-sailor watercraft which can be used for either walking or sailing on the surface of a body of water includes separate right and left walker members, each walker member including a foot cavity, a support member, a hollow seat member and a storage member, a sail mounting platform which is fixedly connectable between the support members of the walker members and otherwise storable in the hollow seat member on one of the walker members, a sail structure which is mountable on the sail mounting platform and otherwise storable in the storage members of one of the walker members, and a rudder structure which is mountable on the trailing end of one of the walker members and otherwise storable in the hollow seat member of the other of the walker members.