Abstract: A maintenance rack device for use in the performance of a maintenance, or service task on large electrical utility equipment known as reclosers. The maintenance rack includes a portable tiered frame structure adapted with tiered service members that support reclosers that have a mechanical configuration equivalent to those known in the power distribution industry as type R, W, 6h and V6H reclosers. The tiered service members include opposing support plates that support a first type of reclosers and which facilitate removal of the recloser head covers to gain access to the recloser mechanism. A second service member includes a rotatable service bar member for attachment to a second type of recloser and subsequently to the frame structure for manipulating the recloser mechanism that is to be serviced. The reclaser maintenance rack eliminates having to use tables, barrels to service the recloser devices.

Abstract: A lockout apparatus for use on a valve's latching mechanism. The lockout apparatus is a rigid framework formed to encage the exterior structure of a valve and to provide a locking structural member for selective locked securement of the valve's movable latching mechanism, by example in a closed position. The lockout apparatus is sized according to the diameter and size of a valve, by example a ball valve, and includes opposing open-ended structure for accommodating attachment of piping to the inlet and outlet ends of an encaged valve. The locking apparatus is useful in meeting environmental protection requirements for locking outside valves, typically ball valves, an oil tanks and tanker trailers to avoid vandalism and accidental spills.