Collapsible privacy shelter
OwnerJohn J. Maggioinventor
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Abstract
A multi-purpose shelter adapted for use as a toilet, shower or changing enclosure of such size as to accommodate a person, has in a sectional embodiment a floor with ventilation and drainage slots surrounded by a cylindrical truncated shell containing a plurality of pliable wall sections of progressively reduced diameters which may be raised in a telescopic manner, held freestanding in an extended position by friction, is quickly and easily set up on site without tools for special instruction and collapsible into a low profile form for quick and easy transportation, storage or shipment.
Claims7
A collapsible shelter useful as a toilet, shower or dressing structure, comprising,
- a base shell with a floor composite therewith,
- a collapsible structure made in a single molding operation from a semiflexible material comprising a generally tubular body having a plurality of tapered wall sections coaxially disposed with respect to each other,
- each of said tapered wall sections having an upper portion and a lower portion arranged in successively diminishing diameters which means that they telescopically fit into one another, each of said tapered wall sections being tapered so that the lower portion of one section binds with the upper portion of the next adjacent section so as to form a unit and provide a maximum volume inside the enclosure and,
- sealing means disposed between each adjacent and binding portions of said sections to thereby provide a releasable frictional engagement therebetween,
- said tapered wall sections being further characterized as nestable in a normal condition to provide a low profile for storage purposes and being upwardly extendable to a usable condition to constitute a maximum volume enclosure,
- the collapsible structure having sufficient inside dimension to accommodate a person in the enclosure when extended,
- a commode affixed to said shell base floor, and
- a lid for attachment to the uppermost portion of said base shell when in the normal collapsed condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.