Tent – canopy – umbrella – or cane – Portable shelter – Cone-shaped type
Patent
1994-04-04
1995-08-08
Friedman, Carl D.
Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane
Portable shelter
Cone-shaped type
135121, 135123, 135130, 135132, 135135, 135905, 135908, E04H 1524, E04H 1534
Patent
active
054390168
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION AND PRIOR ART
The present invention relates to a substantially cone-shaped tent and a method for pitching such a tent according to the appended independent product and method claim, respectively.
Example of this type of tents are huts and tepees and it is of course a desire to be able to rapidly pitch and disassemble them, so that it is possible to use them also in occasional arrangements, such as pitch a camp for one single night or for any activity for one day or a part thereof.
The invention relates in particular but not exclusively to the larger so called "giant tent huts", which may have a top height and base diameter rather often of 7 and 10 meters, respectively. The cone-shaped tents hitherto known of this order of magnitude require too much time to pitch and disassemble in order to make it reasonable to use them for more occasional or temporary arrangements. First of all it is required to tie the rods diverging downwardly towards the ground and supporting the tent cloth at the top so as to interconnect them, which is delicate to achieve in an appropriate manner, so that they are well held together also after the pitching. The rods are tied together after the very erection, but this is for natural reasons bothering. Is thereby the conventional technique utilized, so that the rods cross each other just below the upper end thereof for obtaining the top bunch characteristic for huts, it will then be extremely difficult to afterwards get the tent cloth over the top, should a tent cloth completely sewn up be used, so that it will be necessary to make the tent cloth cone brokable by buttons, zipfastener or the like, and this makes of course the cloth weaker. Also when such a characterizing bunch or top cross is omitted it will be too difficult to get a tent cloth with substantially the form of a continuous cone in place by means of known techniques on huts being so high and when the tent cloth weight is so considerable that may sometimes be the case. Another disadvantage of the tents of this kind hitherto known consists in that the means necessary for interconnecting adjacent rods may not be applied in a sufficiently rapid and secure way, since they generally are made of cross bars which have to be tied at the respective ends thereof to the rod in question.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a tent and a method for pitching thereof of the kind mentioned in the introduction, which enable a more rapid and at the same time also easier and more secure pitching and disassembling of such a tent, so that it will be motivated to use even larger such tents, such as so called "giant tent huts" for temporary arrangements.
This object is obtained in accordance with the invention by providing a tent and a method for pitching thereof according to the appended product and method claims.
Thanks to the fact that according to a feature of the invention the means in question adapted to interconnect adjacent rods comprise elongated rigid elements with first engaging members and the rods have second engaging members fitting therewith, it will accordingly be possible to rapidly and easily after the erection of the rods interconnect these, so that they occupy the desired positions defined for supporting and stretching the tent cloth and securely maintain these positions. This leads to a considerable saving of time and improvement of the accuracy with respect to the tying method used before.
According to a second preferred embodiment of the invention the tent comprises members for pivotally connect the upper end of each rod to a frame of a support arrangement in the region of the top of the tent, said frame being intended to be arranged substantially horizontally and each rod is pivotable substantially about the horizontal tangent of the frame in connection points between the rods and the frame when the frame is directed horizontally. Thanks to these characteristics the rods may be interconnected when the tent top is located low, preferably on the groun
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Friedman Carl D.
Wood Wynn E.
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