Camper assembly

In combination in a unitary camper, a pair of assemblies each said assembly comprising:

• a substantially rigid base panel having a relatively shallow upstanding flange about its periphery which bounds a surface for receipt of a mattress and being dimensioned for transport on the cabin roof of a passenger road vehicle;
• a pair of spaced apart U-shaped legs each pivotally mounted to said flange at opposite sides of the base panel and extending under the base panel in a direction opposite the direction of protrusion of the flange, which legs are extensible from retracted positions adjacent the base panel to extended positions in which they may support the panel on but above a ground surface;
• at least two rib members secured to the base panel and pivotally extensible upwardly from retracted positions adjacent said base panel, one of the rib members being linearly extensible to substantially increase its clearance from the base panel;
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• a cover of flexible sheet material secured to the rib members and to the base panel with such slack in the retracted positions of the rib members that on extension of the rib members until the cover is taut, said one rib member projects laterally therefrom so that the cover extends above an annex area adjoining the base panel, while another rib member overlies the base panel at a lower height than said one rib member;
• wherein the covers of the two assemblies comprise a common cover bridging all of the at least four ribs to the two base panels and wherein said annex area lies between the base panels when the latter are supported adjacent one another above a common ground surface and the ribs extended to taughten the cover.

A vehicle roof mount for supporting a camper assembly comprising:

• a carry frame;
• means to detachably mount the frame on the cabin roof of a vehicle;
• respective spaced sets of prongs for engaging the collapsed assembly along respective sides thereof and so retaining it on the carry frame, one set of which prongs being withdrawable to release the assembly;
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• a pair of pads on which to rest the assembly during lifting of the latter onto or from the carry frame, which pads define respective pad surfaces for engaging an underside of the assembly and are so mounted that the pads are freely rotatable about each of two mutually perpendicular axes, rotation about one axis being effective to move the pad surfaces between an upwardly facing condition just above and to one side of the carry frame and a condition in which they face laterally outwardly of the frame.