Tent

Abstract

A tent is disclosed for sunbathing, camping, hunting and the like, which includes a flexible square floor panel, flexible triangular side walls with each side wall having a lower edge attached to the edge of the floor panel and edges of adjacent side walls attached together to form an apex at the upper end thereof, and a support structure including telescoping rod members positionable within the shelter along the adjoining edges of the side walls and a plastic apex member positionable in the apex formed by the side walls and having downwardly and outwardly facing flexible coils therein to receive the upper ends of the telescoping members when the telescoping members are extended from the lower end of the adjoining edges to the apex member to provide rigid support for the flexible side walls of the tent. A bulbous ended plug in the lower end of each rod has a bore through which a tie-down cord extends and is held in place by a knot on its inner end; the tie-down cord extends externally of the tent through a sealed floor corner opening in the tent. Triangular side panels adjacent a window include stiffeners connectable at their outer ends to define an awning shaped like the corner of a pyramid awning over the window.

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