Abstract: An apparatus for extricating an individual from a hazardous location or situation which includes a mechanism for selectively grappling various portions of the individual's body and a generally elongated frame having a substantially longitudinal extent which can be varied in length and which supports the body grappling mechanism. The elongated frame allows an individual to use the grappling mechanism to grapple a portion of the body of the individual who is in a jeopardized situation from a position of safety without jeopardizing both individuals. The body grappling mechanism includes a torso engaging mechanism and a limb engaging mechanism, both of which extend outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the frame of the apparatus. The torso engaging mechanism is contoured to define at least one torso receiving concavity having a lateral extent, with respect to the frame, which is selectively sized and configured to retainingly receive the torso of an average individual.

Abstract: A gas pump lever hooking member including an elongated member with a first end having a pair of spaced apart claw portions forming reentrant edges of a slot shaped so as to be adapted to engage the lever and hold it in an open position against a pump handle. A second end of the hooking member is adapted to serve as an ice scraper for an automobile windshield. The elongated member has a hand grip recess midway between the first and second ends.

Abstract: A tool having two side rods spaced apart by a connecting crossbar facilitates clamping and unclamping a cable in a groove on an insulator cap. To clamp the cable, the crossbar is inserted into a first recess on the cap between the groove and a protruding stud, and the side rods are pressed against a front branch of a clamp wire pivotally mounted on the cap to snap the front branch into a second recess below a front guide surface on the stud. To unclamp the cable, hooked extensions of the side bars engage the front branch of the clamp wire and lift it out of the second recess when the crossbar is pressed against the front guide surface of the stud. Separate clamping and unclamping tools can be mounted on an insulating handle for pivoting between a rest position and an operating position and spring biassing means can be provided to urge each tool toward a rest position.

Abstract: Paired adjustably closable arcuate jaws are relatively swingably mounted on an end of a stiff shaft of waist-height length (e.g. thirty to forty inches). The jaws are of a size, and are spring-biased, for gripping and lifting cans, bottles, ears of corn and other small cylindrical objects. The tips of the jaws can be rounded, but preferably are provided with large low-friction rollers, so as to be cammed open when pressed against the object being grasped. The shaft desirably has a cylindrical handle grip on its upper end. The grip may be partly or fully removable or displaceable to expose a pointed shaft end for picking-up penetratable objects. Also the shaft end can be threaded for detachable reception in an axial socket in the end of an extension rod. Further, the shaft may carry, at its opposite ends, pickup devices differently sized and/or adjusted for grasping objects of different sizes and/or weights.

Abstract: A ball retriever for retrieving a golf ball from water hazards with various bottom conditions. The device is molded in one piece to offer either a gripping action or a scooping action. Fingers are provided for gripping a golf ball that lies in a water hazard having a firm bottom. Prongs are provided for scooping a golf ball that lies in a water hazard having a soft bottom.

Abstract: An extensible-handle buoyant net and retrieval device having a handle member made of telescoping tubes sealed at their joints by a packing gland, the handle member being sealed at one end by an inserted hook member and carrying a fork member at its other end, the fork member having a block pivotally connected thereto supporting a net frame, and the fork member and block forming a pivotal joint carrying a lock for fixing the angle of the net frame to a selected one of multiple predetermined angular positions, the frame and handle members being made of hollow plastic tubing.

Abstract: A retractable rake is shown as in one example for use as a courtesy rake by a golfer at a sand trap, or for light raking chores, in general. The rake has a plurality of projecting tines which diverge outwardly when they are in their extended position. When the rake is not in use, the tines are retractable into the shank of the rake so the rake is compact and may be stored and carried within the golf bag.

Abstract: A tool used to lift a hanging type plant onto and off of an overhead hook. The tool includes an elongate shaft having a handle at one end and a V-shaped tip at the other end which is formed to engage a ring carried on the upper end of ropes that suspend the plant container. The ring may be held on the tip of the tool and thereby lifted onto and off of the hook.

Abstract: A combination tool particularly adapted for use by operators of semi-trailer trucks. The tool includes an elongate hollow body of rigid material having a pivoted handle or bail on one end and a weight at the other end circumjacent the body. An axially slidable hook protrudes from the weighted end for use in operation of a fifth wheel hitch when extended. An extensible graduated depth gauge is telescopically positioned within the body at the handle end which, when extended, is a depth-type fuel gauge for checking fuel depth in truck tanks. The pivoted handle may be swung away from its axial position to permit extension of the depth gauge and a secondary tool grip is provided circumjacent the body of the tool at the handle end thereof.

Abstract: A combination gaff and boat hook includes a rigid longitudinal handle element and a gaff element affixed thereon. A rigid enclosure conforming generally to the shape of the gaff element is adapted to sheath the gaff element and be affixed to the handle element. The enclosure, when in position sheathing the gaff serves as a boat hook.

Abstract: A boat hook is provided with a series of attachments engagable with a coupling device on the prod end. The coupling preferably includes a threaded section, and is set back from the point of the prod for the dual purpose of protecting the threads, and for utilizing the point as the means of assuring positive coaxial alignment of the coupling. The attachments provide a variety of areas of utility, and the preferred form of the invention has a telescoping handle capable of being locked in a plurality of degrees of extension appropriate to the particular attachments that may be coupled to the basic device. The original utility of the boat hook is not impaired by the provision for the attachments. One of the attachments is a hoop with a provision for temporarily retaining a loop in a mooring line.

Abstract: A cover for open-bodied vehicles to cover loads during transportation having a reel carried in an assembly removably securable to the front of an open vehicle body, a rod longer than the width of the vehicle body, a tarpaulin at least as wide and as long as the open body connected at one end to the rod and at the other to the reel, removable hooks securable to the back of the vehicle body for holding the rod with the tarpaulin extended, a crank connected to the reel for reeling the cover and a hand implement having a device mating with said crank for manual operation of the reel and a tool for connection to said rod so as to manually transport the tarpaulin from the reeled condition out over the open body.

Abstract: A flexible tarpaulin handling device is disclosed for the remote handling of tarpaulins arranged over the top of a truck or other vehicle. A tarp hook is securely attached to an elongated handle. The tarp hook defines an upwardly extending downwardly curving hook portion for pulling the tarpaulin downwardly, and a downwardly extending upwardly curved hook portion for raising the tarpaulin. Either hook may be used for laterally shifting the tarpaulin. The hook portions are laterally opposed to one another and are mounted to a central interconnecting portion which is in turn securely mounted to a bifurcated tang. The bifurcated tang is riveted on the elongated handle. The truck operator is thereby able to shift the tarpaulin to align it with the appropriate securing means while standing on the ground.