Abstract: A bathtub drain having a fixed body at the tub overflow opening a rotational member extending through the fixed body and having a rear portion behind the fixed body, a non-axially positioned linkage attachment point on the rear portion of the rotational member, and a pair of contact surfaces on the fixed body and rotational member and biased together, with different engagement characteristics marking different rotational positions of the rotational member. In preferred embodiments, the contact surfaces are the rearward surface of the fixed body and the forward surface of the rotational member rear portion, and these surfaces preferably have a groove and mating ridge to mark the fully open and closed positions.

Abstract: A protective leg guard particularly adapted for baseball catchers is disclosed herein and includes a rigid foot guard, shin guard, knee guard and first and second thigh guards, each having secured thereto respective foot, shin, knee, first and second pads, elements pivoting the guards/pads for articulated relative movement, other elements including at least one strap looped about itself and sandwiched between the first thigh guard and first thigh pad and secured to the latter and to the knee guard and the second thigh guard to effect articulated motion therebetween, the shin pad including an upwardly projecting knee protection pad portion in spanning relationship to a gap between the knee guard and the shin guard, and the shin pad having opposite side edges and an ankle bone projection pad portion both of which project appreciably beyond opposite side edges and lowermost convex radius edges of the shin guard.