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US 4,063,567 AGranted
Tent peg
OwnerClaude Martin, Real Martininventors
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A tent peg to positively prevent collapse of a tent under strong winds. The tent peg has a straight elongated body and a short angularly directed branch near the upper end thereof, adapted to be set to the vertical to be inserted within and attached to a tubular tent post to prevent its horizontal and vertical displacement. The tent peg is further provided with means to resist its pulling off the ground. These means include teeth on the body and the fact that in one embodiment of the peg, the body has a V-shape cross-section tapering towards its ground-engaging pointed end, whereby trapping earth, which resists pulling. The peg is provided with means for attaching tent cords, tent metal eyelets to further maintain the tent in erected position. The peg is also provided with means to interconnect it with another peg driven at an angle forming a V-shape arrangement within the ground to further resist pulling the peg off the ground.
A tent peg comprising an elongated rigid body adapted to be angularly driven into the ground and having a lower pointed end and a flat upper end, the latter serving to hammer said body into the ground, a straight short branch secured to, and joining with, said body in a zone spaced below said upper end and proximate said upper end, said branch making an obtuse angle with the portion of said body located below said zone, said branch adapted to be vertically and upwardly directed when the body is angularly positioned in the ground, so as to be inserted in the open tubular lower end of a tent-supporting post to prevent lateral displacement of said post lower end, said branch having an upper end portion provided with a transverse bore for receiving a pin extending through transversely aligned holes made in said tubular lower end of said post to lock said post against upward movement.
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