Collapsible tent frame

• US 5,944,040 A
• Filed: 05/21/1998
• Issued: 08/31/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norstar Trade Incorporated Norstar Korea Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Jung-Woo Jang
• Inventors: Jang, Jung-Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DORSEY, DENNIS
• Application Number:
  US09/082,482
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 52/79.5, 135/126, 135/128, 135/131, 135/130, 135/97
• US Class Current: 135/126
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 15/50 lazy-tongs type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32483 Spring biased
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/60 Biased catch or latch

Abstract

A collapsible tent frame is disclosed. The tent frame has a center pole used for stretching and sustaining a tent'"'"'s roof when pitching a tent. A plurality of side poles are coupled to each other through a plurality of scissor-type ribs, with upper ends of the ribs being hinged to connectors provided at top ends of the side poles and lower ends of the ribs being hinged to sliders movably fitted over the side poles. The center pole is coupled to the connectors of the side poles through a plurality of center pole ribs. The above center pole ribs individually consist of two rib members, which are coupled to each other through a hinge joint. Each of the center pole ribs is also hinged to the slider of an associated side pole through a support link, thus being collapsible at the hinge joint in accordance with a sliding motion of the slider along the side pole.

Claims

1. A collapsible tent frame, comprising:

a center pole constructed for stretching and sustaining a tent'"'"'s roof when a tent is pitched with the tent frame;

a plurality of side poles coupled to each other through a plurality of scissor-type ribs, with upper ends of said ribs being hinged to connectors provided at top ends of said side poles and lower ends of said ribs being hinged to sliders movably fitted over said side poles; and

plurality of center pole ribs coupling said center pole to said connectors of the side poles, said center pole ribs individually comprising two rib members coupled to each other through a hinge joint and being hinged to the slider of an associated side pole through a support link, thus being collapsible at the hinge joint in accordance with a sliding motion of said slider along the side pole.

2. A collapsible tent frame according to claim 1, wherein said rib members of the center pole ribs have a substantially equal length.

3. A collapsible tent frame according to claim 2, further comprising a claw member disposed at a lower end of each side pole.