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Presented is a backpack for use in carrying hose, such as fire hose, to locations where it is needed. The backpack includes a rigid metallic frame having at one end a hose support shelf on which at least two spirally coiled rolls of fire hose may be carried. Quickly engageable and releasable straps

Presented is a backpack for use in carrying hose, such as fire hose, to locations where it is needed. The backpack includes a rigid metallic frame having at one end a hose support shelf on which at least two spirally coiled rolls of fire hose may be carried. Quickly engageable and releasable straps are provided to bind the coils of fire hose to the back frame, and shoulder straps and a waist strap are provided to suspend the backpack on the back of the wearer. All that is required of the wearer to release and deploy one or more coils of hose from the backpack is to tug on one end of a flexible cable, with the result that the quick-release straps that bind the coils to the frame are released, thus enabling the coils of hose to be deployed by a mere shrug of the shoulders.

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A backpack for carrying on the back of a wearer at least one hose spirally coiled as an integral unit about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the spirally coiled hose unit and having a central aperture formed about said axis, said spirally coiled hose unit being normally releasably bound as a un

A backpack for carrying on the back of a wearer at least one hose spirally coiled as an integral unit about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the spirally coiled hose unit and having a central aperture formed about said axis, said spirally coiled hose unit being normally releasably bound as a unit to said backpack with said axis perpendicular to the back of said wearer, whereby said spirally coiled hose unit may be selectively quickly and easily unbound from said backpack and deployed by the wearer of the backpack while still wearing the backpack by the natural body movement of lowering the shoulder corresponding to the direction in which it is desired to deploy the unitary spirally coiled hose for extension and use after deployment, comprising: (a) a backpack frame assembly on which said at least one spirally coiled hose unit is adapted to be releasably supported and including a rigid frame portion having a first section oriented parallel to the back of a wearer when the backpack is donned and a second section on which said at least one spirally coiled hose unit is adapted to be supported; (b) a shoulder strap assembly mounted on the rigid frame portion for suspending said rigid frame portion on the shoulders and parallel to the back of a wearer; (c) a spirally coiled hose unit retention assembly means mounted on said first section of said rigid frame portion and extending around and through the central aperture of said spirally coiled hose for releasably retaining said at least one spirally coiled hose on said rigid frame portion with the axis of said coil perpendicular to the back of a wearer; and (d) a spirally coiled hose unit release assembly means cooperatively associated with said hose unit retention assembly means and selectively manipulable by a wearer while the backpack is still donned to release from said first section of said rigid frame portion said at least one spirally coiled hose unit, whereby said spirally coiled hose unit may be deployed as a unit from said rigid frame portion by lowering the shoulder corresponding to the direction in which the spirally coiled hose unit is to be deployed from said second section.