Abstract: An elongated life line for firemen is back carried in an elongated tubular container attachable on, and detachable from a back carried air tank. The rope container has a latched, spring-opened closure at its bottom, accessible to the fireman by reaching behind his back. By pulling on a pigtail or on one swivel hook end of the rope, the unitary package of coiled rope is quickly released slide as a unit out of the bottom of the container for use. A flexible resilient blade on the rope container is slid down behind the encircling strap of the air tank and its lower end latched to the container.

Abstract: Washing apparatus for cleaning the lenses of goggles, worn by a motorcyclist during a muddy race, is mounted on the forward portion of a duck bill visor to jet spray cleaning liquid onto the goggles to clear the lenses of mud. An oval tank of cleaning liquid is pressurized with air and supported on the front fork of the cycle, there being a flexible tube extending from the tank, up the sleeve of the rider and thence along the helmet to the jet spray on the visor. A finger actuated control valve and a breakaway are incorporated into the tube.

Abstract: An elongated, narrow, buoyant, ice rescue craft having a flat, planar, hard bottom, upwardly inclined forward and rearward end walls, upstanding side walls and a full length, flat, planar, top deck of hard material is formed of two identical half sections piano hinge pivoted to each other transversely of the center of the top deck and having releasable latches to retain it in extended position or in over folded condition for storage in the trunk of an automobile. A recess is provided in each opposite end of the top deck, each containing a coil of recovery line having an end affixed to the adjacent end wall. Outriggers may also be provided.