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US 7,743,781 B2Granted
Reconfigurable portable hunting blind
OwnerJerry Micah Slaughterinventor
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Abstract
A portable reconfigurable hunting blind assembly is disclosed comprising six rectangular frames joined together side edge to side edge along five hinge lines for accordion folding, and a camouflage covering mounted to each of the frames to define six panel-shaped wall units, the camouflage covering defining a window in at least some of the wall units.
Claims7
A portable reconfigurable hunting blind assembly comprising:
- a. six rectangular frames joined together side edge to side edge along five hinge lines for accordion folding, and
- b. a camouflage covering mounted to each of the frames to define six panel-shaped wall units, said camouflage covering defining a window in at least some of said wall units,
- wherein the frames are identified as a first frame on a first end of the hunting blind assembly, a second frame adjacent to the first frame, a third frame adjacent to the second frame, a fourth frame adjacent to the third frame, a fifth frame adjacent to the fourth frame, and a sixth frame adjacent to the fifth frame, said sixth frame forming a second end of the hunting blind assembly,
- wherein the frames are attached by hinges along the five hinge lines, and said hinges are identified as a first hinge between the first and second panels, a second hinge between the second and third panels, a third hinge between the third and fourth panels, a fourth hinge between the fourth and fifth panels, and a fifth lunge between the fifth and sixth panels,
- wherein the second hinge permits the second frame and the third frame to swing over an angle of at least 270 degrees with respect to each other and the fourth hinge permits the fourth and fifth frames to swing over an angle of at least 270 degrees with respect to each other,
- wherein one of the frames further defines a door,
- wherein said assembly is configurable into a self-standing closed hexagonal structure and is reconfigurable into a self-standing four sided open ended pentagonal structure having two parallel sides leading to the open end
- wherein the third and forth frames meet to form a rectangularly shaped window having a bottom edge partly formed by a removable rough sill element interconnecting fixed rough sill elements in the third frame and the fourth frame.
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