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US 9,752,345 B1Granted
Convertible shelter systems
AssigneeClam Corporation
InventorJohn Matthew LaHood
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Abstract
A convertible shelter system includes an enclosure having a removable side wall that selectively may be hinged to provide open access or to be held in an open position as a wind break. The convertible shelter system also includes the ability to fully remove the removable side wall on two enclosures having the same construction and to quickly and conveniently connect the remaining enclosure structures with a bridging panel, resulting in an enlarged, combined space while maintaining an essentially unobstructed ground surface.
Claims11
A convertible shelter system, comprising:
- a first enclosure that includes a plurality of interconnected side walls defining an open floor space and being connected to a top wall, and further comprising a pop up structure wherein each side wall and the top wall have a hub that is connected to a plurality of rods, with the plurality of rods being connected to a fabric panel;
- at least one of the side walls being removable, wherein the removable side wall has a bottom edge that engages a ground surface, and further has opposed first and second side edges and a top edge and defines an opening in the first enclosure;
- wherein the opening in the first enclosure has a perimeter edge that further comprises a connecting member that is configured to selectively disconnect the removable side wall from the perimeter edge of the opening along the first and second side edges and the top edge of the removable side wall or to hinge the removable side wall from the first enclosure by disconnecting the removable side wall from the perimeter edge of the opening along the first side edge and the top edge of the removable side wall;
- a second enclosure, with the second enclosure further comprising a plurality of interconnected side walls defining an open floor space and being connected to a top wall, and further comprising a pop up structure wherein each side wall and the top wall have a hub that is connected to a plurality of rods, with the plurality of rods being connected to a fabric panel;
- at least one of the side walls being removable, wherein the removable side wall has a bottom edge that engages a ground surface, and further has opposed first and second side edges and a top edge and defines an opening in the second enclosure;
- wherein the opening in the second enclosure has a perimeter edge that further comprises a connecting member that is configured to selectively disconnect the removable side wall from the perimeter edge of the opening along the first and second side edges and the top edge of the removable side wall or to hinge the removable side wall from the second enclosure by disconnecting the removable side wall from the perimeter edge of the opening along the first side edge and the top edge of the removable side wall;
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- a bridging panel having first and second opposed side edges with the first opposed side edge configured to be connected to the first enclosure at the opening of the first enclosure and the second opposed side edge configured to be connected to the second enclosure at the opening of the second enclosure;
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- wherein when the at least one removable side wall, including the hub connected to the plurality of rods and the bottom edge that engages the ground surface, is removed from each of the first and second enclosures and the respective openings are located in an opposed and spaced apart position and the first enclosure is connected by the bridging panel to the second enclosure, the interconnected bridging panel and side walls of the first and second enclosures define a collective open and continuous floor space.
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