Tent – canopy – umbrella – or cane – Portable shelter – Shelter suspended from diverse support means
Patent
1988-06-20
1989-04-04
Bell, J. Karl
Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane
Portable shelter
Shelter suspended from diverse support means
135 98, E04H 1504
Patent
active
048176540
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for alternately raising a cover into a storage configuration adjacent an overhead support, like a carport roof, and lowering it over a vehicle parked thereunder and including a plurality of hollow tubes extending outward in radial pattern from a position centered over the vehicle, an upper frame of a plurality of bendable rods attached together in end-to-end fashion about the perimeter of the vehicle, a lower frame made similarly for positioning about the lower perimeter of the vehicle, a series of cover control lines attached at various points to the lower frame passing upward therefrom and through the tubes inward toward the hub and upward toward the overhead structure, a shaft mounted adjacent the overhead structure, and a sheet-like cover covering the tubes and frames for positioning over the vehicle and arranged for being retracted up to the overhead structure when not in use.
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Bell J. Karl
Murphey John J.
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