Tent – canopy – umbrella – or cane – Portable shelter – Shelter suspended from diverse support means
Patent
1992-09-08
1993-06-15
Raduazo, Henry E.
Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane
Portable shelter
Shelter suspended from diverse support means
43 1, E04H 1504
Patent
active
052189821
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a hut or tent used by securing it to a tree in a forest.
BACKGROUND ART
When camping in mountains or the like, a tent pitched on the ground is used. In assembling such a conventional tent, supporting rods are put up on the four corners of the camp site, a waterproof tent is spread over the site, riggings such as ropes are connected to stakes driven in the ground and erecting the tent by pulling the supporting rods at their ends.
But, since such a conventional tent is usually erected on the ground, if one has to spend a night in such a tent pitched deep in a mountain, he might be attacked by snakes or bears. Thus, it is sometimes very dangerous to pitch a tent on the ground. Also, in order to use a certain area in a mountain as a camp site for erecting a tent, one has to cut down trees and level the ground so that the place can be used as a camp site. Such work tends to incur much cost and leads to the destruction of nature.
Further, in order to pitch such a tent, one has to use various kinds of and a large number of accessory parts such as supporting rods and ropes. When assembling a tent, such parts have to be placed in predetermined positions in predetermined order. Such work is troublesome and complicated.
This invention was made in view of the problems of the conventional tents and its object is to provide a tent which can be mounted on a tree in a forest by mounting a support frame having a simple structure on the tree and by spreading a tent over the frame, and which requires no cutting of trees nor leveling of the ground.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
According to this invention, there is provided a tent comprising a support base having a support frame large enough for a person to lie thereon, a seating plate laid on the frame, and stanchions erected at the four corners and intermediate points of the support frame, a mid-level fixing ring secured to a tree for coupling a base end of the support base to the tree, a lower fixing ring secured to the tree at a point lower than the support base for coupling an outer end of the support base to the tree, supporting rods that extend between the outer end of the support base and the fixing ring corresponding thereto, at least one of the stanchions being longer than the other stanchions, and a tent spread over the top of the long stanchion and the tops of the other stanchions.
This tent can be attached to a tree of a suitable size at any desired place in a forest.
In mounting, the fixing rings are secured to a tree. The support base coupled to the fixing rings is supported on the support member to fix it in position. By spreading the tent over the support plate thus securely fixed to the tree, the tent is assembled. Since the rings are designed so that the bark is not tightened directly, they never inhibit the growth of the tree.
Since this tent is attached to a tree at a middle height thereof, by climbing into the tent like a bird getting into its own nest, one is perfectly safe against external enemies.
The tent according to the embodiment has a stanchion longer than the other stanchions and ropes extending between the top of the long stanchion and the tops of the other stanchions. The tent is supported on the ropes, so that it is prevented from sagging between support points.
Also, the tent according to the embodiment may have an upper fixing ring at a point higher than the mid-level fixing ring. Guys are provided between this ring and the support base and between the mid-level fixing ring and the support base to prevent the support base from rotating.
Other features are described with reference to the embodiment.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is an external view of an embodiment of the tent,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the assembled support base,
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the support base with the skirt canvas removed,
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of an essential portion of the tent,
FIG. 5 is a detailed view of the center stanchion near the top,
FIG. 6 is a plan view of the support base
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Raduazo Henry E.
Smith Creighton
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