Tent – canopy – umbrella – or cane – Portable shelter – Tent supported by vehicle
Patent
1988-09-14
1991-03-26
Raduazo, Henry E.
Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane
Portable shelter
Tent supported by vehicle
135 99, 135 26, 135108, E04H 1506
Patent
active
050020820
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The instant invention relates to a self-erecting tent which can be brought on a traveling or rolling and supportable platform from a transportation position into an erection position and which consists of a telescoping mast as well as of a plurality of locking bars whereby the folded roof skin in the area of the locking bars is connected to the ends of the locking bars furthest from the mast to stretch it in deployment and at least to support it during telescoping.
Such a tent is also known through FR-A-2330829.
It basically provides for the traveling and supportable platform to be admissible under the road traffic regulations of the different countries, or under special authorizations for authorized flatbeds which, in some cases, could also be in form of semitrailers.
Other self-erecting tents with a travelling or rolling and supportable platform which can be erected by one single person or a small number of persons are not known.
Beyond this, aluminum scaffold tents of various designs are known, but their erection generally not only requires a number of persons, but requires also relatively highly skilled erection site personnel.
Otherwise, small tents are known in the military; they are divided into individual carrying loads and canbe erected by one or several persons, and this applies of course also to camping enthusiasts.
For this reason it is the object of the instant invention to propose a self-erecting tent of the type described initially, the smaller models of which can be erected by one person alone and which would require a minimum of personnel for the erection in case of a larger size tent of this type if needed.
The object of the invention provides for a plurality of telescoping and/or unfolding locking bars to be attached to the mast via base elements of the mast in predetermined directions and at predetermined angles and for sub-elements of each base element to be telescoped into same in transportation position, whereby the last sub-element, in the deployed or unfolded state of the locking bars, determines the tension of the roof skin and whereby each final sub-element of the locking bar is connected to the latter by means of a stem oriented in direction of the road surface.
In transportation position the sub-elements are telescoped into the base elements attached in predetermined directions and at predetermined angles to the mast, or if unfolding locking bars are used, the sub-elements are attached to same. The telescoping or folding and unfolding end elements of the individual locking bars constitute, together with the roof skin which is folded in transportation position, a unit that can be called a cap.
In the deployed or unfolded state of the locking bars they determine the tension of the roof skin.
The stability of the entire tent is increased significantly by the support provided to each sub-element at the end of the locking bars by a strut connected to it and oriented in direction of the road surface, since the forces to be absorbed need then not be absorbed exclusively by the traveling or rolling and supportable platform.
It should be noted that the object of the invention is thus achieved.
It should further be noted that the struts should be fashioned so as to bear end awnings. This makes it possible to close the tent without drafts near the floor.
As a further development it should be noted that the telescoping segments of the mast and of the locking bars can be secured against twisting by giving said telescoping segments prismatic cross-sections of a desired type.
This design of the telescoping parts which secures them against twisting provides a simple solution to this problem, since no weakening of the cross-section takes place as is the case with cylindrical telescoping parts because of the necessity of providing a wedge which runs in a groove.
Concerning the configuration of the tent it should be noted that the configuration of the basic outline is determined by the number of locking bars attached to the mast and by their length, and that when locking bars of unequal length an
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Raduazo Henry E.
Roder GmbH
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