Tent

• US 9,702,164 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2012
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Benninger, Gary N.
• Original Assignee: Benninger, Gary N.
• Inventors: Benninger, Gary N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson, Danielle
• Application Number:
  US13/653,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20140102496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• 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 comprising:

a tent canopy consisting of a single piece of thin thermoformed film;

said single piece of thin thermoformed film having an outside surface exposed to an environment of the single walled tent; and

a plurality of reinforcement tapes secured to said single piece of thin thermoformed film for strengthening said tent canopy.

2. The single walled tent of claim 1 wherein said tent canopy has a low emissivity.

3. The single walled tent of claim 1 wherein said single piece of thin thermoformed film is comprised of a light-weight polymer material.

4. The single walled tent of claim 1 wherein said plurality of reinforcement tapes include an adhesive backing material to establish said secured relationship to said single piece of thin thermoformed film.

5. The single walled tent of claim 1 wherein said single piece of thin thermoformed film is comprised of a reinforced polymer material.

6. A single walled tent comprising:

a tent canopy consisting of a single piece of thin thermoformed film;

said single piece of thin thermoformed film comprised of a light-weight reinforced polymer;

said single piece of thin thermoformed film having an outside surface exposed to an environment of the single walled tent; and

a plurality of reinforcement tapes secured to said single piece of thin thermoformed film for strengthening said tent canopy.

7. The single walled tent of claim 6 wherein said plurality of reinforcement tapes include an adhesive backing material to establish said secured relationship with said single piece of thin thermoformed polymer film.

8. A single walled tent comprising:

a tent component portion comprised of a plurality of thin thermoplastic polymer films;

a connection means for securing said plurality of thin thermoplastic polymer films to one another to establish the tent component portion;

each of said plurality of thin films of said tent component portion having an outside surface exposed to an environment of the single walled tent; and

a plurality of reinforcement tapes secured to said plurality of thin films for strengthening said tent component portion.

9. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said connection means includes adhesive.

10. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said connection means includes sewing.

11. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said connection means includes attachment tapes.

12. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said plurality of thin thermoplastic polymer films are comprised of thermoformed reinforced polymer material.

13. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said plurality of reinforcement tapes each include adhesive backing material to establish said secured relationship with said plurality of thin thermoplastic polymer films.

14. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said plurality of thin thermoplastic polymer films are each comprised of a thermoformed light-weight reinforced polymer.

15. The single walled tent of claim 8 wherein said tent component portion has a low emissivity.