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US 4,058,133 AGranted
Self-contained tent assembly
OwnerDwight L. Barr, Leslie A. Barrinventors
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Abstract
A car-top tent assembly comprises a pair of hinged half shells which mate together in suitcase fashion for travelling, one of these half shells being mounted to the vehicle and the other folding out into alignment with the first to form a bed complete with mattress for overnight stops, there being a tent structure secured to the half-shell edges which erects automatically upon opening of the halves.
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A self-contained tent assembly comprising:
- first and second half-shells hinged together at their respective inner ends and capable of folding together in mating relation for defining an enclosure and extendable into aligned relation for defining a planar platform;
- a flexible sheet attached to the peripheries of said half-shells when same are mated and for defining an enclosed space above said platform when said half-shells are extended;
- support means for folding within said half-shells when same are mated and for supporting said sheet above said platform when sad half-shells are extended;
- said half-shells including upwardly extending walls which completely surround said platform when said half-shells are extended;
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- an impermeable resilient flap having base means mounted along and sealingly encompassing the upper edges of said walls, and said flap being inwardly directed, said sheet being attached to the inner edge of said flap so that upon folding said half-shells into mating relation, said flexible sheet will be inwardly biased by said flap to fall within said sidewalls and said flap on each half-shell will engage the flap at the other half-shell for defining seal means for sealing said half-shells in the closed position.
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A self-contained tent assembly comprising:
- first and second half-shells hinged together at their respective inner ends and capable of folding together in mating relation for defining an enclosure and extendably into aligned relation for defining a planar platform;
- a flexible sheet attached to the peripheries of said half-shells, said sheet being shaped and dimensioned to fold within said half-shells when same are mated and for defining an enclosed space above said platform when said half-shells are extended;
- support means attached to said half-shells for folding within said half-shells when same are mated and for supporting said sheet above said platform when said half-shells are extended;
- said flexible sheet including inclined portion which defines a screened opening, and trough-defining flap means attached to the inside of said flexible sheet along the lower edge of said opening for providing a watershed for draining any water entering the tent assembly through said screened opening.
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A self-contained tent assembly comprising:
- first and second half-shells hinged together at their respective inner ends and capable of folding together in mating relation for defining an enclosure and extendable into aligned relation for defining a planar platform;
- a flexible sheet attached to the peripheries of said half-shells, said sheet being shaped and dimensioned to fold within said half-shells when same are mated for defining an enclosed space above said platform when said half-shells are extended;
- support means attached to said half-shells for folding within said half-shells when same are mated and for supporting said sheet above said platform when said half-shells are extended,
- each of said half-shells including a pair of side walls, the inner ends of the sidewalls of one half-shell abutting the inner ends of the side walls of the other half-shell when said half-shells are extended for defining a pair of composite side walls extending the length of said platform, said half-shells being connected by hinges joining the tops of the abutting inner ends of the side walls;
- and including a pair of fixed end walls spanning the ends of said side walls opposite from the hinged ends thereof, and including a cover panel and means for removably mounting same over the hinged ends of said half-shells when same are folded to define an enclosure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.