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US 2006/0137731 A1Published application
An ultralight backpacking combination cloak and tent
AssigneeAnue
InventorRobert Anue
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Abstract
The invention is a single piece of ultralight backpacking gear that can be configured to a cloak, a one person bivy tent and can be joined to a cloak of the same design to form a two person tent.
Claims14
A cloak comprising water resistant material in a hexagonal shape, a plurality of fasteners and a plurality of attachment points having five configurations,
- a first configuration being a garment that can be worn for rain protection, said garment opening down the front of the user and having fasteners to secure said opening closed,
- a second configuration being a floor-less open sided shelter having a first edge suspended in the air from line attachment points located at the two ends of said first edge, a second edge opposite said first edge being anchored to the ground by stakes through attachment points located at the two ends of said second edge, and triangular panels of material each having one edge defined by the line between one end of said first edge and the nearest end of said second edge, said triangular panels having at their three corners one attachment point on said first edge, one attachment point on said second edge and a third attachment point capable of being anchored to the ground by a stake, and
- a third configuration being a floor-less one person closed shelter having two sides closed to the ground and two ends closed to the ground, being anchored to the ground by stakes through line attachment points located at four corners, and having a ridge running in the direction of the long dimension of said one person closed shelter suspended in the air from line attachment points located at the two ends of said ridge, and
- a fourth configuration being a floor-less one person open porch shelter having one side closed to the ground, two ends closed to the ground, and one side raised up and open at one end, said open porch shelter being anchored to the ground by stakes through line attachment points located at four corners and having a ridge running in the direction of the long dimension of said open porch shelter suspended in the air from line attachment points located at the two ends of said ridge, said side raised up on one edge having an attachment point at the raised up corner attached to a line connected to a stick propping the corner up a short distance away from said raised up corner, said line running a distance away from said stick to be secured by a stake to the ground, and
- a fifth configuration being a first cloak joined to a second cloak of the same design to form a floor-less two person tent having two sides and two ends closed to the ground, said two person tent being anchored to the ground by stakes through line attachment points located at four corners and having a top ridge suspended in the air from line attachment points located at the two ends of said top ridge, said first cloak and said second cloak comprising said tent being joined together by fasteners along said top ridge and down the two ends of said two person tent, the ends of said two person tent functioning as doors when said fasteners on said ends are separated.
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A method of converting a cloak from the fourth configuration floor-less one person open porch shelter to the third configuration floor-less one person closed shelter comprising the steps:
- firstly, lifting the bottom of the stick off the ground and laying the stick down,
- secondly, joining the fastener being located at the corner with the attachment point being tied to the line being tied to the stick, to the fastener being located at the nearby corner with the attachment point being anchored to the ground with a stake, resulting in an edge of the cloak being folded to create a loose flap of material,
- thirdly, securing said loose flap of material by joining a fastener in the center of the edge of said loose flap to a fastener in the center of the closest end of said shelter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.