US425540A - Bruno forbriger - Google Patents

Description

- (No Model.)

B. FORBRIGBR.

SWING TENT.

N0. 425,540. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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BRUNO FORBRIGER, or soHoNErELD, NEAR nrrsro, SAXONY, GERMANY.

SWING-TENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,540, dated April 15, 1890. Application filed October 9, 1889. fierial No. 326,403. (No model.)

T0 or whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BRUNO FORBRIGER, of Schonefeld, near Leipsic, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, have invented a new and useful Swing-Tent, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is illustrated in Figures 1 to view of the rests or stops f f and adjacent parts; Fig. 10, a sectional side view of one of the turning spindles; Fig. 11, elevation of coupling for the middle upper yoke; Fig. 12, a transverse section,and Fig. 13 a plan, of the same. Fig. 14 represents the fastening for tent-cover with middle yoke in sectional end View, and Fig. 15 the same in plan.

The above-illustrated invention is for a folding tent-frame which can be used in place of life-saving baskets and many other purposes. This tent-fram e, owing to its folding and rocking nature,is constructed in a peculiarmanner. It consists, principally, of a series of open bent sections or yokes preferably arched which attain their purpose in divers manners,

and the particular construction is illustrated in the drawings and the following description.

The tent-frame is shown in position for use in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, andin afolded position in Figs. t to '7, while Figs. 8 to 12 show various details of construction.

The arched sections or yokcs A and B of the tent-frame serve to support the whole structure. They rest upon the ground and are braced from each other by means of the foldingbrace K. Th e arched sections or yokes A and B are also rockers and serve for rocking the tent.

The arched sections or yokes E F serve for holding the tent cover, and the adjacent arched sections or yokes (J D,forming the up per part or root of the tent, (see Figs. 11 to 15,)

are held together by means of a peculiar coupling consisting of a clasp G or a spring.

All of the arched sections or yokes are pivoted and turn upon the spindles a. at their ends, and the ends of these spindles are so constructed (for example, with loops or eyes, as shown) as to allow a hammock to be swung upon them. (See Fig. 1.) All the sections or yokes are jointed in the middle by joint I), so that they can be folded so as to resemble a quadrant. (See Fig. 6.) The spindles a a are provided with the rests off (see Figs. 8 to 10) for the purpose of supporting the sections or yokes E F, and by means of which, when the tent is erected, the sections or yokes E F are in a sttte of tension with respect to CD. (See Fig. 2.

The folding of the tent-frame is as follows: The upper sections or yokes C D are separated and the jointed braces K are folded. The cover is taken off and rolled up. The frames A B O D E F lie close together, one above the other, as shown in Fig. 4, forming a semicircle, and by means of the joint 0 they may be folded in the form shown in Fig. 6. In this manner the tent can be folded i'naverysmall compass and is readily portable, and has the advantage that the body of the person resting can receive not alone the rocking motion from the hammock, but from the whole tent, which will generallybe done mechanically by the action of the wind, especially when the outer surface of the tent is properlyturned to the Wind. This arrangement of tent is superior to the ordinaryones, not alone on account of the superior comfort afiorded, but also in the practical nature of the construction.

I claim- 1. Atent-frame composed of a series of yokes, in combination with spindles to which they are pivoted at their ends, all substantially as described.

2. A tent-frame consisting of a series of arched sections jointed substantially in the middle, in combination with and pivoted at their ends on two spindles, whereby the tentframe may be folded up into quadrant shape, all substantially as described.

3. A tent-frame consisting of a series of open bent sections or yokes, in combination with and connected at their ends to spindles, said spindles being provided with loops for attaching a hammock, all substantially as described.

I0 ff, the yokes A and B being connected by the jointed braces K K, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

BRUNO FORBRIGER.

Witnesses:

- MAX MATTHAI,

CARL BORNGRAEBER.

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