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US 4,944,321 AGranted
Portable vehicle garage and tent structure
OwnerFrancisco Moyet-Ortizinventor
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Abstract
A combination portable vehicle garage and tent structure incorporating support members which in the garage mode are retained under the wheels of the vehicle which support members have a framework of support poles and cross members with a cover to shelter the vehicle which structure, when a vehicle is not positioned therein, can be utilized as a tent.
Claims14
A structure useful as a cover in a first mode for a four-wheeled vehicle having a front and rear and as a tent in a second mode, comprising:
- first, second, third and fourth support members, each having a front and rear, each positioned respectively under a wheel of said vehicle retaining such support members to the ground with said first and second support member disposed under the front wheels of said vehicle and said third and fourth support members disposed under the rear wheels of said vehicle;
- a first pole support receipt means positioned in the front of each of said support members;
- a second pole support receipt means positioned in the rear of each of said support members;
- first and second front support poles having a top and bottom with the bottom of each affixed respectively to the first pole support receipt means of said first and second support members disposed under the front wheels of said vehicle, said first and second front support poles extending upward and forward with respect to said vehicle;
- first and second front central poles having a top and bottom with the bottom of each affixed respectively to the second pole receipt means on said first and second support members disposed under the front wheels of said vehicle, said first and second front central poles extending upward and rearward with respect to said vehicle;
- first and second rear support poles having a top and bottom with the bottom of each affixed to said second pole receipt means respectively of said third and fourth support members under the rear wheels of said vehicle, said first and second rear support pole extending upward and rearward with respect to said vehicle;
- first and second rear central poles, each having a top and bottom with the bottom of each affixed to said first pole receipt means, respectively, of said third and fourth support members, said first and second rear central pole extending upward and forward with respect to said vehicle and attached at their tops to the tops of said first and second front central pole, respectively, on each side of said vehicle;
- a central cross member interconnecting the tops of said attached first and second front central poles and said first and second rear central poles;
- first and second middle support poles, each having a top and bottom with their bottoms angularly adjustably attached respectively to said first and second front central pole, said front middle support poles extending forward and upward with respect to said vehicle;
- first and second upper front support poles extending from the tops of said first and second front support poles to the tops of said first and second front middle support poles, respectively;
- first and second top front support poles extending from the tops of said first and second middle support poles, respectively, to the junction of said first and second front central poles and said first and second rear central poles at said central cross member;
- first and second rear middle support poles, each having a top and bottom with their bottoms angularly adjustably attached respectively to said first and second rear central poles, said first and second rear middle support poles extending rearward and upward with respect to said vehicle;
- first and second upper rear support poles extending respectively from the tops of said first and second rear support poles to the tops of said first and second rear middle support poles;
- first and second top rear support poles extending from the tops of said first and second front middle support poles to the junction of the tops of said first and second front and rear central poles;
- a front middle cross member extending from the top of said first front middle support pole over to said second front middle support pole;
- a rear middle cross member extending from the top of said first rear middle support pole to said second rear middle support pole;
- a front cross member extending from the top of said first front support pole to said second front support pole;
- a rear cross member extending from said first rear support pole to said second rear support pole;
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- covering extending over the structure of support poles and cross member to cover said structure.
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