US 5,333,634 AGranted

Inverse umbrella tent

OwnerDelbert Taylorinventor

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Abstract

A collapsible shelter or tent commonly known as an umbrella tent, that includes an integral frame and cover, the frame including tent poles formed of interconnected tent pole sections whose ends are telescoped together and are urged in their telescoped coupling by an elastic cord that is maintained, under tension, within each tent pole. Each tent pole is pivotally connected at a top end to extend radially from a crown, with the opposite tent pole end maintained to a web strap that extends from a base of which cover, with a number of slides mounted to slide along each tent pole that individually connect to and extend from loops secured at vertical intervals to extend outwardly from which cover. Both the crown and an erecting ring each receive a center pole fitted to slide axially therethrough, and the erecting ring pivotally mounts a rib end thereto that pivotally couples at its opposite end to the tent pole at an intermediate point therealong. When the crown and erecting ring are slid together along the center pole, each rib pivots outwardly urging the connected tent pole into a bowed attitude, providing an umbrella type opening of the shelter, that can then be collapsed by pulling the erecting ring away from which crown slide, collapsing the frame. Whereafter the individual tent poles can be disconnected by pulling them apart and folding them together into a bundle for rolling in the tent material.

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Dependent claims

A collapsible shelter comprising, a sheet of material formed into cover;

a frame that mounts said cover and, when erected, supports said cover, forming an enclosed shelter, said frame including a plurality of tent poles each capable of flexing to a bowed attitude and which are each connected on a top end by a pivotal coupling to a crown means that contains pivot seats spaced therearound that each receive a tent pole pivot means that is mounted to a top end of each of said tent poles, forming an apex of said frame, and said crown means is arranged to receive a center pole that is fixed axially to slide freely therethrough, which said center pole is also fitted axially, in sliding arrangement, through an erecting ring means that contains a plurality of pivot seats spaced therearound that each receive a first pivot means that is mounted to an end of one of a plurality of ribs, and each of said ribs has an opposite end that is mated by a second rib pivot means to one of said tent poles, each of which said tent pole pivot means and each said rib first pivot means mountings in said crown means and said erecting ring means seats prohibit side to side movement of each said tent pole and each said rib as they are extended outwardly along radials from said crown means and erecting ring means during tent frame erection;
slide means for connection to individual loop means that extend at intervals from said sheet of material and are fitted to slide along one of said tent poles that each consist of a pair of parallel U-shaped segments having ends that are interconnected by identical straight parallel bars, with aligned openings through said U-shaped segments for receiving a tent pole fitted therethrough in sliding arrangement, and said parallel bars are for receiving a loop strap of the cover fitted therethrough;
and a plurality of web strap means that individually extend at intervals from around a bottom edge of said cover, each for receiving and releasable connecting to a foot that is secured to a lower end of each said tent pole.

A collapsible shelter comprising, a sheet of material formed into cover;

a frame that mounts said cover and, when erected, supports said cover, forming an enclosed shelter, said frame including a plurality of tent poles each capable of flexing to a bowed attitude and which are each connected on a top end by a pivotal coupling to a crown means that contains pivot seats spaced therearound that each receive a tent pole pivot means that is mounted to a top end of each said tent pole, forming an apex of said frame, and said crown means is arranged to receive a center pole that is fitted axially to slide freely therethrough, which center pole is also fitted axially, in sliding arrangement, through an erecting ring means that contains a plurality of pivot seats spaced therearound that each receive a first pivot means that is mounted to an end of one of a plurality of ribs, and each of said ribs has an opposite end that is mated by a second rib pivot means to one of said tent pole pivot means, each of which said tent pole pivot means and each said rib first pivot means mountings in said crown means and said erecting ring means seats prohibit side to side movement of each said tent pole and said rib as they are extended outwardly along radials from said crown means and erecting ring means during tent frame erection;
slide means for connection to individual loop means that extend at intervals from said sheet of material and are fitted to slide along said tent poles;
and a plurality of web strap means that individually extend at intervals from around a bottom edge of said cover, each for receiving and releasable connecting to a foot that is secured to a lower end of each said tent pole and each is a triangular shaped section that includes a long apex with a triangle section removed from the center thereof and includes a round hole as a triangle apex, said triangular shaped section having a base that receives a section of cloth material that is looped through said triangle section and is connected at its ends to the cover;
and a foot of each tent pole includes a pointed end adjacent to an inset area that is formed between parallel shoulders that is for fitting into said triangle section to where said inset area slides into said triangle section apex round hole, said foot inset area for fitting into said round hole, with opposing surfaces of said parallel shoulders engaging the surfaces of said web strap means around said round hole.

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