walk-around bottle

noun

variants or walk-around oxygen bottle or less commonly walk-around oxygen unit or walk-around

plural -s

: a portable container of oxygen for use in high-altitude flying when moving around in the airplane or as an emergency supply if the airplane's oxygen system fails

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