COLLAPSIBLE TENT

• US 3,603,330 A
• Filed: 01/27/1969
• Issued: 09/07/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Halldor K. Halldorson, Irving O. Nelson
• Original Assignee: Halldor K. Halldorson, Irving O. Nelson
• Inventors: Halldorson, Halldor K., Nelson, Irving O.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, J. Karl
• Application Number:
  US04/794,190
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 135/1,1A 296/23
• US Class Current: 135/88.16
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/38 Sleeping arrangements , e.g. living or sleeping accommodation on the roof of the vehicle

Abstract

A collapsible tent or camper for carriage on a vehicle and having a rigid floor and with a rear wall and sidewalls which are hingedly attached along the sides and rear of the floor so that the walls can be folded down in overlapping relationship; the sidewalls of a somewhat triangular shape and a roof hingedly connected at its forward end to the front of the floor, the roof covering the sides in the collapsed condition and resting on the top edges of the walls in the erected position.

Claims

1. A collapsible tent for carriage and erection on a supporting vehicle, comprising;

a floor, rear wall and opposed sidewalls, each of substantially rigid construction, the rear wall hingedly connected to a rear end of the floor and the sidewalls hingedly connected to opposite sides of the floor whereby the rear wall and sidewalls can be folded down over said floor in overlying relationship, the sidewalls of triangular form in elevation and with the base of the triangle cooperating with said rear wall in the erected condition;

a roof having a forward end hingedly connected to the forward end of the floor to overlie the side and end walls in the collapsed condition and adapted to cooperate with top edges of said side and end walls in the erected condition;

a door in said end wall, means for releasably connecting the roof and said side and end walls in the erected condition;

said floor comprising two levels, a first level forward for clearance over the roof of an automobile and a lower second level rearward for clearance over the rear of said automobile, means for releasably supporting said first level above the roof of said automobile and means for releasably supporting said second level from the rear bumper of said automobile.

2. A collapsible tent as claimed in claim 1 including a ladder pivotally attached at its upper end to the rear end of the floor and including support means for engagement with the rear bumper of the automobile.

3. A collapsible tent as claimed in claim 1, said end and sidewalls hingedly connected to said floor by a lower portion of each wall rigidly attached to and extending upward from said floor.

4. A collapsible tent for carriage and erection on a supporting vehicle, comprising;

a floor, rear wall and opposed sidewalls, each of substantially rigid construction, the rear wall hingedly connected to a rear end of the floor and the sidewalls hingedly connected to opposite sides of the floor, whereby the rear wall and sidewalls can be folded down over said floor in overlying relationship, the sidewalls of triangular form in elevation and with the the base of the triangle cooperating with said rear wall in the erected condition;

a roof having a forward end hingedly connected to the forward end of the floor to overlie the side and end walls in the collapsed condition and adapted to cooperate with top edges of said side and end walls in the erected condition;

a door in said end wall;

means for releasably connecting the roof and said side and end walls in the erected condition;

said end and side walls hingedly connected to said floor by a lower portion of each wall rigidly attached to and extending upward from said floor, and means for supporting at least one bed on said floor comprising a table adapted to extend in an elevated position and in a lowered position, the bed at least partly supported by the table when the table is in lowered position, the lower portions of said walls extending to a height above the level of said bed.