Circus tent
OwnerJean-Leonard Vigneinventor
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Abstract
A tent including a fabric which contains firstly a substantially non-stretching peripheral cable and secondly substantially non-stretching cables, each substantially non-stretching cable extending from a pole to the vicinity of a perimeter edge of the fabric such as a corner. The tent further includes a support provided at each corner, at a height at least equal to that of the perimetric edge of the fabric when the tent is in a raised position, and a winch for hooking on the end of the cables extending from the pole and for tensioning the cables. The tent, applicable as a circus tent, can be raised and lowered rapidly.
Claims10
A tent raisable between a lowered position and a raised position comprising:
- at least one pole;
- a flexible fabric mounted on said at least one pole, said fabric having a perimetric edge that includes a plurality of corners, said fabric further containing substantially non-stretching cables affixed thereto for supporting said fabric, each of said cables extending from said pole to a vicinity of the perimetric edge near one of the plurality of corners of said fabric, said perimetric edge being at a predetermined height when the tent is in the raised position;
- a support provided at each of said corners at a height at least equal to the predetermined height of said perimetric edge of said fabric when the tent is in the raised position;
- and
- a plurality of winches located at or higher than the predetermined height of the perimetric edge, one winch being associated with each of said corners and each winch being connected to at least one of said cables in the vicinity of one of said corners for tensioning said cables to support and raise said fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.