US 5,311,699 AGranted

Shade house

OwnerDavid Huffmaninventor

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Abstract

The structure of a shade house is disclosed which is comprised of a plurality of upright posts with cables tensioned therebetween to provide a support for a shade producing fabric to be placed over a designated area. The structure is easy to assemble and includes improved structural elements such as the combination of a post with a separate top which supports the roof cable, and a separate earth anchor threadably driven into the ground. The roof is comprised of a number of supporting cables preferably forming a rectangular grid, and by a system of parallel holding cables which extend over the top surface of the roof fabric with the latter is installed. The fabric is installed by way of a plurality of strips which can be wound up and stored in the wound up position during winter months or the like.

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A shade house having a multilateral plan with a contour with a plurality of corners and including a flat roof formed by a flexible sheet material supported by a cable network, said shade house comprising;

(a) a plurality of corner poles disposed one at each corner of said plan, each said corner pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(b) a plurality of peripheral poles disposed at a generally equidistant spacing on lines defining the contour of said plan, each said peripheral pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(c) a plurality of inside poles spaced from each other and defining a pattern of cable support points located on longitudinal and transverse rows within said plan, each said inside pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(d) a peripheral cable system forming a part of said cable network and including a plurality of peripheral cables, each peripheral cable extending, in a tensioned state, between top portions of a pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles and passing through top portions of the peripheral poles disposed between the respective pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles, whereby the peripheral cable system coincides with said contour;
(e) an anchor cable arrangement located exteriorly of the shade house and including a plurality of anchor cable means, each anchor cable means being secured, at a first end thereof, to one of said corner poles or to one of said peripheral poles, and, at a second end thereof, to an earth anchor means, whereby each of said corner poles and said peripheral poles is provided with anchor cable means, the anchor cable means being tensioned thus holding said corner poles and said peripheral poles in a generally upright position and maintaining said cable network in a tensioned state;
(f) a plurality of inside cable means forming a part of said cable network, each inside cable means extending, in a tensioned state, across the plan of the house, from one of said peripheral poles to an opposed one of said peripheral poles, each inside cable means being supported by a number of said inside poles;
(g) said flexible sheet material having peripheral edge portions secured to said network;
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(h) a plurality of holding cable systems parallel with and generally equidistantly spaced from each other and disposed parallel with and closely vertically above at least some of the inside cables, with said flexible sheet material disposed on top of the supporting cables but below the holding cable systems.

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A shade house having a generally rectangular plan with a contour with a plurality of corners and including a flat roof formed by a flexible sheet material supported by a cable network, said shade house comprising;

(a) a plurality of corner poles disposed one at each corner of said plan, each said corner pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(b) a plurality of peripheral poles disposed at a generally equidistant spacing on lines defining the contour of said plan, each said peripheral pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(c) a plurality of inside poles spaced from each other and defining a pattern of cable support points located on longitudinal and transverse rows within said plan, said rows being generally perpendicular to each other, each said inside pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(d) the spacing between the inside poles in one of said longitudinal and transverse rows being about twice that in the other one of the longitudinal and transverse rows;
(e) a peripheral cable system forming a part of said cable network and including a plurality of peripheral cables, each peripheral cable extending, in a tensioned state, between top portions of a pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles and passing through top portions of the peripheral poles disposed between the respective pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles, whereby the peripheral cable system coincides with said contour;
(f) an anchor cable arrangement located exteriorly of the shade house and including a plurality of anchor cable means, each anchor cable means being secured, at a first end thereof, to one of said corner poles or to one of said peripheral poles, and, at a second end thereof, to an earth anchor means, whereby each of said corner poles and said peripheral poles is provided with anchor cable means, the anchor cable means being tensioned thus holding said corner poles and said peripheral poles in a generally upright position and maintaining said cable network in a tensioned state;
(g) a plurality of inside cable means forming a part of said network, each inside cable means extending, in a tensioned state, across the plan of the house, from one of said peripheral poles to an opposed one of said peripheral poles, each inside cable means being supported by a number of said inside poles;
(h) said flexible sheet material having peripheral edge portions secured to said network;
(i) a plurality of holding cable systems parallel with and generally equidistantly spaced from each other and disposed parallel with and closely vertically above at least some of the inside cables, with said flexible sheet material disposed on top of the supporting cables but below the holding cable systems;
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(j) said flexible sheet material is comprised of a plurality of strips of sheet material, the width of each strip being selected to correspond to the distance between two adjacent peripheral poles disposed along said other two opposed parallel sides;
whereby, in a fully extended state, each strip covers the area between two adjacent roof supporting cables secured to said adjacent peripheral poles.

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(a) a plurality of corner poles disposed one at each corner of said plan, each said corner pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(b) a plurality of peripheral poles disposed at a generally equidistant spacing on lines defining the contour of said plan, each said peripheral pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(c) a plurality of inside poles spaced from each other and defining a pattern of cable support points located on longitudinal and transverse rows within said plan, each said inside pole being anchored to the ground by an auger-type earth anchor;
(d) a peripheral cable system forming a part of said cable network and including a plurality of peripheral cables, each peripheral cable extending, in a tensioned state, between top portions of a pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles and passing through top portions of the peripheral poles disposed between the respective pair of adjacent ones of said corner poles, whereby the peripheral cable system coincides with said contour;
(e) an anchor cable arrangement located exteriorly of the shade house and including a plurality of anchor cable means, each anchor cable means being secured, at a first end thereof, to one of said corner poles or to one of said peripheral poles, and, at a second end thereof, to an earth anchor means, whereby each of said corner poles and said peripheral poles is provided with anchor cable means, the anchor cable means being tensioned thus holding said corner poles and said peripheral poles in a generally upright position and maintaining said cable network in a tensioned state;
(f) a plurality of inside cable means forming a part of said cable network, each inside cable means extending, in a tensioned state, across the plan of the house, from one of said peripheral poles to an opposed one of said peripheral poles, each inside cable means being supported by a number of said inside poles;
(g) said flexible sheet material having peripheral edge portions secured to said network;
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(h) a plurality of holding cable systems parallel with and generally equidistantly spaced from each other and disposed parallel with and closely vertically above at least some of the inside cables, with said flexible sheet material disposed on top of the supporting cables but below the holding cable systems.

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