US 4,726,153 AGranted

Portable shelter

AssigneeGazebo Penguin Inc.

InventorsAaron I. Adler, Earl Adler

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Abstract

A gazebo and a lean-to shelter have rigid panels with a soft material canopy spread over an arrangement of spokes or ribs. The gazebo has a compression spoke arrangement for holding the canopy in a dome configuration. The spokes of the gazebo include a flat hook underneath each spoke adapted to engage a draw cable at the top periphery of the rigid panels, and a sleeve fits over the end of the spoke and the end of the flat hook to lock the draw cable within the hook. A tip engages the end of the tube and the sleeve to lock it in position on the flat hook. The ribs of the lean-to have a toggle arrangement for extending the ribs when the lean-to shelter has been assembled and to apply tension on the canopy. The end of the toggle is adapted to fit in a rail which in turn also receives the edge of the canopy, and the rail is mounted in a track.

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Dependent claims

A portable canopy defined as a lean-to shelter comprising a plurality of rigid panels adapted to surround an area adjacent an existing installation, wherein the installation has at least a portion of a vertical wall, a framework of parallel ribs extending from the wall to a series of said rigid panels mounted parallel to the portion of the vertical wall, rail means mounting the rib framework to the vertical wall, and attachment means connecting the ribs to the rigid panels in a manner such that the ribs overhang the rigid panels, a flexible canopy overlies the framework, the improvement including a toggle means interrupting each rib such that the ribs can be extended or retracted in a manner to apply or release tension on the canopy, and the rail means inlcude a first elongated member adapted to be fixed to the vertical wall, including an elongated socket of circular cross-section provided with a continuous slot;

a second elongated member having a resilient elongated bead adapted to fit in the socket of said first elongated member and a neck connected to the bead and extending through the slot, whereby the second elongated member can pivot relative to the first member, the second member comprising an elongated track member mounted to the neck and the track including a channel for receiving the ribs and a parallel elongated socket of circular cross-section adapted to receive a bead formed in the canopy, whereby the rib framework and the canopy thus connected to the second elongated member can pivot in unison relative to the first member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.