Tent movable between a collapsed position and a latched erect position
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorAnthony E. Eichhorn
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Abstract
A tent is disclosed having movable tent poles for supporting a flexible tent body. An apex junction member is provided for pivotally supporting one of the ends of each of the tent poles, the opposite ends of which are held in a fixed position. A tensioning member is provided movable between a normal position in which the tent is collapsed with the tent poles parallel and adjacent to each other, and a tensioned position for tensioning the tent poles in a splayed apart configuration for placing the tent body in an erect position. A latch member is provided for releasably latching the tensioning member in its tensioned position and the tent in its erect position.
Claims7
A tent movable between a collapsed position and a latched erect condition, comprising:
- a flexible tent body;
- tent poles for supporting the tent body;
- holding means for releasably attaching one end of the tent poles to the tent body;
- apex junction means for supporting the opposite ends of the tent poles, the apex junction means including;
- a base member;
- a plurality of adapters mounted on one of the ends of the tent poles;
- a cap member movably mounted on the base member and adapted when pressed downwardly to engage the adapters and to bend and tension the tent poles for placing the tent body in an erect position;
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- latch means movable between a normal unlatched position to a latched position for latching the tent poles in a tensioned position and the tent body in its erect position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.