Tent

• US 20140102496A1
• Filed: 10/17/2012
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Benninger, Gary N.
• Original Assignee: Benninger, Gary N.
• Inventors: Benninger, Gary N.
• Granted Patent: US 9,702,164 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 135/115
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 15/54 Covers of tents or canopies

Abstract

A tent constructed such that it incorporates a light-weight, single walled, low emissivity fabric or film canopy. In the case of the polymer film canopy, the canopy may be assembled from flat or molded film segments/sections. The light-weight canopy materials may incorporate a grid of reinforcing fibers, wherein the reinforcing fibers are laminated into/onto the film during manufacture of the film/fabric. The light-weight canopy materials, either with or without a grid of laminated reinforcing fibers, may also incorporate additional continuous reinforcing fibers added to the canopy materials during the tent manufacturing process by bonding along the lines of principal stress/load. The possibility of including the continuous fibers along the principal lines of stress/load during the laminating process is also addressed.

Claims

1. A single walled tent having a canopy made of a low emissivity material.

2. The single-walled tent of claim 1 wherein the canopy has a low infrared signature.

3. The single-walled tent of claim 1 wherein the canopy is made from a light-weight, non-reinforced polymer film material.

4. The single-walled tent of claim 3 wherein fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the film material along lines of stress.

5. The single-walled tent of claim 1 wherein the canopy is made from a light-weight reinforced polymer film material.

6. The single-walled tent of claim 5 wherein fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the film material along lines of stress.

7. The single-walled tent of claim 1 wherein the canopy is made using heat-formed/thermoformed non-reinforced polymer film material.

8. The single-walled tent of claim 7 wherein fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the film material.

9. The single-walled tent of claim 1 wherein the canopy is made using heat-formed/thermoformed reinforced polymer film material.

10. The single-walled tent of claim 9 wherein the fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the film material.

11. A single walled tent made from a light-weight non-reinforced polymer film.

12. The single-walled tent of claim 11 wherein fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the polymer film along lines of stress.

15. The single-walled tent of claim 11 having a canopy made from a heat-formed/thermoformed non-reinforced polymer film material.

16. The single-walled tent of claim 11 having a canopy made from a heat-formed/thermoformed reinforced polymer film material.

13. A single walled tent made from a light-weight reinforced polymer film.

14. The single-walled tent of claim 13 wherein fiber filaments are adhesively bonded to the polymer film along lines of stress.