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Proper access for enabling fire hoses to be readily coupled to the hose connections of a fire hydrant is provided without needlessly sacrificing valuable adjacent parking space for motor vehicles by utilizing upwardly oriented fire hydrant hose connections and/or by utilizing open-walled, cage-like

Proper access for enabling fire hoses to be readily coupled to the hose connections of a fire hydrant is provided without needlessly sacrificing valuable adjacent parking space for motor vehicles by utilizing upwardly oriented fire hydrant hose connections and/or by utilizing open-walled, cage-like protective enclosure components to maintain good and sufficient hydrant clearance and hose connection access space in regions that extend about the hydrant\s hose connections. In one preferred form, rounded elbow pipe segments are threaded onto the hose connections of an existing fire hydrant and are rigidly secured in place thereon to provide upwardly oriented fire hydrant hose connections, and/or protective enclosure components are attached to the existing fire hydrant to provide an open-walled cage-like structure that maintains proper obstruction-free access space in regions that extend about the hydrant\s hose connections so that fire hoses easily can be coupled to the hydrant. Alternatively, a newly manufactured fire hydrant is provided with upwardly oriented hose connections and/or is provided with protective enclosure components that cooperate, once they are put in place during installation of the hydrant, to ensure that proper obstruction-free access areas are maintained about the hydrant\s hose connections so that fire hoses easily can be coupled to the hydrant.

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A system for enhancing utilization of parking space adjacent a fire hydrant wherein the fire hydrant has an upright tubular body and a laterally directed port along said body communicating at one end with the interior of the hydrant body and terminating at its other exterior end in coupling means fo

A system for enhancing utilization of parking space adjacent a fire hydrant wherein the fire hydrant has an upright tubular body and a laterally directed port along said body communicating at one end with the interior of the hydrant body and terminating at its other exterior end in coupling means for connection to a hose, comprising: attachment means defining a tubular pipe elbow, said elbow at one end thereof having coupling means for detachably securing the said elbow to said hydrant hose coupling means, and said elbow at the other end thereof having coupling means corresponding to those of said hydrant hose coupling means and such that said elbow may be coupled to the hydrant with said elbow other end directed upwardly at an angle, said attachment means further including means defining a protective cage extending about said hydrant and said pipe elbow, said cage extending outwardly from said hydrant beyond said elbow, and, means for connecting said protective cage to the hydrant, thereby to define a predetermined clearance space about said hydrant and said elbow pipe free from intrusion by large, objects, as automobiles, disposed proximate to said hydrant, and thus to facilitate access to said upwardly directed pipe other end in connecting a hose thereto irrespective of the proximity of such large objects.