Abstract: A bung plug assembly (30), of a type including a tubularly-shaped housing (32) having a grommet cap (34) at one end thereof, also includes a hard-material bulkhead adapter assembly (37). The bulkhead adapter assembly includes a bulkhead adapter (69) with a smooth-surface bulkhead-adapter bore (41) therethrough and a separate bulkhead-adapter nut (80). The bulkhead adapter has a tube portion (70) with left-hand male threads thereon and a radially-outwardly extending flange portion (74). The tube portion is extended through a grommet cap bore (40), until the flange portion abuts on a surface of the grommet cap, for also being extended through an opening (88) in a wall (39) of a life raft canister. The separate bulkhead-adapter nut is for being screwed onto the tube portion for clamping the wall of the life raft canister between the bulkhead-adapter nut and the grommet cap.

Abstract: A life raft storage and inflation assembly, or system (12) of a type having a deflated life raft (22) stored in a separable canister (14) includes a hose assembly (34, 34') which can be broken down for coupling a selectively activated nozzle of a compressed-gas cylinder (24, 24') to an inlet cock (32, 32') of the deflated life raft. The hose assembly is comprised of a thermo-plastic hose (36); two brass sockets (38) which thread onto an outer surface of the hose; and two coupling fittings, a male life raft coupling fitting and a female cylinder coupling fitting. Each of these coupling fittings has a threaded nipple (52) on one end. These nipples are screwed through ends (48) of the sockets into the interior of the hose. Couplings at the other ends of these coupling fittings are designed differently. A female, or cylinder, coupling (60) of the female coupling fitting has female threads (82) that mate with a male nipple on the gas cylinder.

Abstract: A bung plug assembly (30) for a clamshell life-raft canister (14) comprises a tubularly-shaped housing (32) for holding wound, or coiled, rope (84) with a resilient grommet cap (34) on an outwardly-directed end (64) thereof and a resilient rear cap (36) on an inwardly-directed end (66) thereof. The resilient grommet cap defines a grommet-cap bore (40) therethrough through which an outer-end portion (50) of the rope extends and a canister slot (72) for receiving edges of top and bottom halves (16, 18) of the canister as well as a key slot (46) for receiving a resilient molded key (44) to engage an edge of at least one canister half. A bung plug (38) having a rope passage (42) therethrough for receiving the outer-end portion of the rope is inserted into the grommet-cap bore.