Collapsible rigid shelter for mounting on a truck bed
AssigneeTurtleshel Products Inc.
InventorFabian LORANGER
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a collapsible rigid shelter for mounting on a truck bed. The shelter includes a floor with a pair of floor extensions, a roof shell, a collapsible roof support and a plurality of rigid wall panels. In the transport configuration, the rigid wall panels overlap the floor. The shelter may be transformed to the deployed configuration by using to collapsible roof support to elevate the roof shell, sliding the floor extensions laterally away from each other, and moving the wall panels to extend between from either the floor or one of the floor extensions to the roof shell, and thereby collectively form an enclosure when the shelter is in the deployed configuration.
Claims7
A collapsible rigid shelter for mounting on a truck bed defining a longitudinal direction and a lateral directions and having two laterally spaced apart elevated side rails, the collapsible rigid shelter being collapsible between a transport configuration and a deployed configuration, the collapsible rigid shelter comprising:
- (a) a substantially horizontal floor comprising a pair of floor extensions that are deployable away from each other in laterally opposing directions such that the floor has a greater lateral dimension when the shelter is in the deployed configuration than when in the transport configuration;
- (b) a roof shell;
- (c) a collapsible roof support attached to the floor and to the roof shell for elevating the roof shell further from the floor when the shelter is in the deployed configuration than when in the transport configuration;
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- (d) a plurality of rigid wall panels that may be elevated from a substantially horizontal orientation overlapping the floor when the shelter is in the transport configuration, to extend from either the floor or one of the floor extensions to the roof shell, and thereby collectively form an enclosure when the shelter is in the deployed configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.