US260230A - Hammock and tent frame - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. 'A. PARKER.

HAMMOGK AND TENT FRAME.

No. 260,230. I Patented June 27, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. PARKER, OF MARLBOROUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HAMMOCK AND TENT FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,230, dated June 2'7, 1882.

Application filed April 27, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. PARKER, a citizen of the United States, resident at Marlborough, in the county of Uheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Hammock and Tent Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,

reference being bad to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of my invention arranged as a hammock-support. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same arranged as a tent-frame. Fig.3 is a detail section showing the angle-irons. Fig. 4 is a detail section representing the movable-joint connections. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective.

This invention has relation to hammock and tent frames; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the upright post of the hammocksupport, which is provided at its lower end with an angle-iron or foot, B, having an aperture, c, in its outer end to receive an anchoring-spike or fastening-bolt. The post is provided with an opening or. bearing, d, for the hammock-rope, and a button or catch, 6, is usually secured to the post and serves to fasten the end of the hammock-rope.

F F indicate braces, which are of greater length than the posts A. Each post is provided with two braces, which are connected to its end by movable-joint connections, which permit the braces to be adjusted in different positions with relation to the post-bars A. These movable or universal joint connections may be simply constructed by connecting the coupling-straps g to the upper end of the postbar by means of a transverse bolt, h, and pivotin g theheads of the braces between the arms of the coupling-straps by bolts h.

Each post may be provided with eye-bearings 76 near its upper end to receive the foot of an end standard, I, which carries at its upper end' a transverse bar, m, and by means of these removable end standards and their transverse bars a shade or awning can be supported in position over the hammock.

In order to convert the hammock-support into a tent-fran1e, the shade-supports, it employed, are to be disconnected, and the ends of the post-bars A, beiu g brought together in line, are secured to each other by passing a bolt through the foot attachments thereof, and thereby the ridge-pole is formed.

The braces F F at each end of the ridgepole are separated laterallyand form the end supports of the tent-frame, which is firmly held in position by means of a guy-rope, 2, at each end.

If desired, the hammock may be hung to its bearings within the tent.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a hammock and tent frame, the combination, with the posts A, having the perforated foot attachment B, bearings 01, and buttons 0, of the braces F, hinged to the posts A near their upper ends, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. PARKER. Witnesses:

FRED. M. LAMSON, ELIJAHBOYDEN.

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