Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
135120100 | Accessory or adjunct | 30 |
20080264461 | AIR CONDITIONED TENT ASSEMBLY - A tent assembly is provided wherein an air conditioner is operably engaged with the tent to allow selective cooling of an interior of the tent. The tent includes a sealing sleeve to seal about a periphery of the air conditioner, so that the air conditioner exhausts to the ambient environment. | 10-30-2008 |
20080308139 | Reflective overlay for shade umbrellas - A reflective overlay for shade umbrellas that is both functional and decorative. A substantially circular piece of fabric with a reflective outer surface has a central aperture for positioning on a host umbrella. Built into the periphery are a multiplicity of flaps with gaps between adjacent flaps and at least two attachment means connected to the outer periphery at said gaps for removably attaching the reflective overlay at the periphery of a host umbrella dome. | 12-18-2008 |
20100059095 | REVERSIBLE TENT RAINFLY - A rainfly ( | 03-11-2010 |
20120017960 | ANCHORING SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE SHELTERS AND THE LIKE - Disclosed is an anchoring system for a portable shelter that includes a plurality of anchor assemblies each having a support surface for supporting one of the legs of the portable shelter above the ground when the leg rests on the support surface such that the anchor assemblies are positionable under the legs of the portable shelter to support the portable shelter above the ground. Each anchor assembly includes a container, a retainer and an attachment. The container forms a hollow interior space for holding weighting material and has a removable lid forming the support surface. The retainer blocks the leg from sliding off of the support surface. The attachment includes an anchor plate located within the hollow interior space and below the weighting material and a cable extending from the anchor plate and out of the container for attachment to the tensioning line | 01-26-2012 |
20120118342 | CONNECTOR PLATE FOR TENT ASSEMBLY - A connector plate for quickly and easily securing tent guide ropes and/or straps for facilitating a tent's assembly includes: a base portion, a trunk portion extending longitudinally from the base portion, and a number of branches extending radially from the trunk portion. The base portion has dimensions that are greater in the transverse direction than the longitudinal direction (that is, has a greater width than length) and defines therethrough a slot opening that receives a tent strap. The branches, which may be grouped as oppositely disposed pairs, terminate in geometric shaped end portions, around which end portions a tent guide rope may be wrapped. A method of assembling a tent using the present connector plate is also provided. | 05-17-2012 |
20130146112 | BURIABLE AND RETRIEVABLE ANCHORING DEVICE - Stackable anchors for use in sand, snow and the like including dead man plates, a unitary cord providing means for anchoring devices and for retrieval of the dead man plate from its buried location. In addition, an optional feature of the dead man plate includes means for receiving the unitary cord wrapped about a plurality of dead man plates to retain the anchors in stacked, adjacent relationship for compact storage. | 06-13-2013 |
20130233366 | TENT PEG - Described is tent peg that provides easy storage and transport to reduce the likelihood of the tent peg being lost. The tent peg comprises a shaft having and a head comprising a body having an arm extending therefrom. The arm comprises a first aperture adjacent to the body and a second aperture located between the first aperture and a distal end of the arm. The first aperture is formed to receive a shaft of a first further tent peg in an opposite orientation. Additionally, the second aperture is formed to receive a shaft of a second further tent peg in the same orientation as the tent beg. Further, the shaft of the second further tent peg is receivable in a first aperture of the first further tent peg. Therefore, multiple tent pegs can be interconnected with each tent peg in the opposite orientation to the adjacent tent pegs. | 09-12-2013 |
20130284224 | DISPLAY FOR PORTABLE HUNTING BLINDS - A display marker for a portable hunting blind has a height above the blind and can be seen from a distance, even if surrounded by brush or hills. The display marker resembles a hollow vertical tube that cannot be covered with a blanket of snow. The display marker can easily attach and detach from any brand model or style of blind without tools or without causing damage. The display marker can be collapsed to a small size to make it easy for transport and storage. The display marker displays an orange square of the required size in all directions. | 10-31-2013 |
20150107637 | SIMPLIFIED SLIDER MECHANISM - A slider mechanism is provided with a release mechanism for releasing a spring clip holding a protruding detent in a leg supporting an overhead canopy. The release mechanism is mounted to the slider so that it is automatically loaded in the detent engaging position of the slider so that a simple pushing action on the mechanism causes the detent to withdraw within the leg during lowering of the canopy for storage. | 04-23-2015 |
20150322690 | Canopy Leg Hold Down Plate - A plastic canopy leg anchor device is used with a portable collapsible canopy unit. It encloses a canopy frame leg and covers the canopy leg welded attached footplate, and, by ground pegging through the device and/or placing weight on the device, provides wind stabilization for the canopy unit. The device can be molded into various decorative shapes for attractiveness. | 11-12-2015 |
20160024813 | Canopy Leg Anchor - The present invention provides a canopy leg anchor that is designed to anchor the legs of a canopy to the ground and prevent the canopy from being blown over and damaged. The canopy leg anchor includes a rectangular portion having two opposing length sides, two opposing width sides, and coextensive interior and exterior surfaces designed to wrap around the leg of a canopy. The interior surface and exterior surface enclose a defined interior volume filled with ballast to provide weight for anchoring. The opposing length sides comprise strips of aligning hook and loop fasteners that removably secure the rectangular portion around a canopy leg. The opposing width sides also comprise strips of aligning hook and loop fasteners to allow additional rectangular portions to be removably attached to one another in an end-to-end manner along the length of a canopy leg, thereby increasing the anchoring weight. | 01-28-2016 |
20160060896 | Tent Leg Wheel/Foot Assembly - Wheels, or castors, are attached to the legs of what are commonly called collapsible shelters. The wheels, or castors, can be added to some or all of the legs, of which there are normally four. The wheels, or castors, can be of any type and attached in any fashion, i.e., bolted, clamped, welded, screwed, snapped in, grooved, pressed, glued, spring activated, telescopic, drop-down, rotational, slide, etc. | 03-03-2016 |
135120200 | Adjusting means | 1 |
20090078297 | Automatic Control Device of Foldable Tent - The present invention provides an automatic control device of foldable tent connecting to several roof strut sets consisting of several segments serially connected in radial; wherein, said control device is typically comprised of a central standing base containing a sliding hub, a spring and a tappet roller at inside; said tappet roller is fit in the inside of the sliding hub, and is touched against with one end of said spring axially, another end of said spring is touched against the top inside surface of said central standing base; said sliding hub is connected to connectors in radial respectively and pivotally; said connectors are respectively pivoted on the rim of said central standing base at the middle points, another ends of said connectors are individually connected to the roof strut sets; on the other hand, there are several locking pins built upon the inside of the central standing base for engaging with said tappet roller, coordinating to those said tappet roller has proper number of beveled surfaces for the locking pins pushing to roll, and proper number of catching slots for locking up the locking pins. Cooperating to an extra force exerting on the central standing base to press it down relative to the roof strut sets, the sliding hub brings the tappet roller continuously to go down and up, by means of the special design between the spring and all the pushing lugs and hook slots of the tappet roller, positioning the sliding hub with the locking pin of the central standing base can be carried out, so that the tent can be opened and kept in open configuration automatically; when repeatedly press down the central standing base relative to the roof strut sets, the tent can be closed. | 03-26-2009 |
135120300 | Connector | 17 |
20080271769 | Connector for tent poles - A connector for tent poles has a body consisting of a single piece on the whole, an approximate half part of the body constituting a first connection part which a single pole assembly passes through and is connected to, the other approximate half part of the body constituting a second connection part to which another pole assembly or a clip is connected, a pivot hole consisting of a base hole formed through the first connection part in a direction traversing a longitudinal axis of the body and having a size corresponding to an outer diameter of the pole assembly at a central point of a cross section of the first connection part and an expansion hole widely expanded in a radially outward direction of the body from both front and rear sides of the base hole so as to correspond to a swiveling trajectory of the pole assembly so that the pole assembly is able to swivel by a predetermined angle on any plane intersecting the longitudinal axis of the body, around the base hole of a swivel center, and pivot protrusions that are fitted into a gap between an end face of a male pole and an end face of a female pole of the pole assembly so as to serve as a pivot point combining the swiveling and position-fixing functions of the pole assembly, have respectively a cam surface following a swiveling trajectory delineated by the two end faces and are formed at two points opposite to each other in the base hole of each pivot hole. | 11-06-2008 |
20100180923 | RAIL SKIRT SYSTEM - The rail skirt system includes a top rail, a skirt that hangs from the top rail, formed from rail bar members connected together at their inner ends by a middle connector tube connectable to a locking support leg, to provide support for the top rail on a side of a shelter. The outer ends of the rail bar members are connected to legs of the shelter by fixed corner connecting brackets. | 07-22-2010 |
20110094553 | CONNECTOR FOR TENT POLES - Disclosed herein a connector for connecting end portions of a plurality of tent poles that intersect with one another. In one embodiment, a connector for tent poles includes a body and first, second and third pole insertion holes formed in the body. In the connector for tent poles, the first and second pole insertion holes maintain a central angle of less than 180 degrees at an intersection point at which the center lines of the first and second pole insertion holes intersect with each other, the radius direction outsides of the first and second pole insertion holes from the intersection point are opened so as to be first and second openings, respectively, and first and second wall portions are formed at the radius direction insides of the first and second pole insertion holes, respectively. The third pole insertion hole is disposed within the range of the central angle, the radius direction inside of the third pole insertion hole is opened so as to be a third opening, and a third wall portion is formed at the radius direction outside of the third pole insertion hole. | 04-28-2011 |
20110232712 | RAIL SKIRT SYSTEM - The rail skirt system includes a top rail, a skirt that hangs from the top rail, formed from rail bar members connected together at their inner ends by a middle connector tube connectable to a locking support leg, to provide support for the top rail on a side of a shelter. The outer ends of the rail bar members are connected to legs of the shelter by fixed corner connecting brackets. | 09-29-2011 |
20120090655 | SUPPORT PROFILE - Support profile ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120167935 | Connection Member for a Tent Pole, and Jig for Attaching/Detaching the Connection Member - Disclosed are a connection member for a tent pole, and a detachable jig of the same. The connection member for a tent pole, which connects unit poles of which opposite end parts are internally formed with insertion holes, the connection member including: a pair of insert members which are respectively fitted in and fixed to insertion holes at end parts of a pair of adjacent unit poles; a connecting pipe body which is formed with a through hole in a middle thereof to be arranged between the insert members and includes opposite end parts respectively inserted the insertion holes of the unit poles; and an elastic cord which includes opposite end parts respectively fixed to the pair of insert members while being inserted in the through hole of the connecting pipe body and provides elasticity so that the end parts of the pair of adjacent unit poles can be in contact with each other. | 07-05-2012 |
20120211041 | RAIL SKIRT SYSTEM - The rail skirt system includes a top rail, a skirt that hangs from the top rail, formed from rail bar members connected together at their inner ends by a middle connector tube connectable to a locking support leg, to provide support for the top rail on a side of a shelter. The outer ends of the rail bar members are connected to legs of the shelter by fixed corner connecting brackets. | 08-23-2012 |
20130125945 | RAIL SKIRT SYSTEM - The rail skirt system includes a top rail, a skirt that hangs from the top rail, formed from rail bar members connected together at their inner ends by a middle connector tube connectable to a locking support leg, to provide support for the top rail on a side of a shelter. The outer ends of the rail bar members are connected to legs of the shelter by fixed corner connecting brackets. | 05-23-2013 |
20140130837 | RELEASE MECHANISMS FOR ADJOINING COMPONENTS - A mechanism for facilitating the release of a components employed on an expandable and collapsible canopy having a spring-biased projection penetrating an opening in the component, the mechanism comprising a sturdy flap comprising a thumb press portion which is sufficiently large enough to lower the force per square inch required to release the mechanism, wherein the flap is rotatably secured to the mechanism so that the thumb press portion may be rotated into contact with the projection by a user when in use so that the thumb press portion is substantially perpendicular to the projection upon engagement. | 05-15-2014 |
20140137913 | CONNECTOR DEVICE FOR A FOLDABLE TENT - A connector device includes a male component pivotally coupled with a female component. The male component includes a projection extending from a first pole, with the projection having a first locking member. The female component includes a housing extending from a second pole, with the housing including a spring-biased engaging member and a second locking member at an upper portion of the housing. The male and female components are in a locked state when the engaging member is biased upward and the first and second locking members are engaged such that the first and second poles are fixedly aligned. The male and female components are in an unlocked state when the engaging member is biased downward and the first and second locking members are disengaged such that the first and second poles are pivotally movable with respect to each other. | 05-22-2014 |
20140190541 | CANOPY SHELTER BRACKETS - A canopy shelter bracket for increased structural integrity. The canopy shelter bracket can include an inner portion, an intermediate portion, a first outer portion, and a second outer portion integrally connected to form a generally āFā shape or an āSā shape. The inner portion, first outer portion, and/or the second outer portion can include holes for receiving a fastener therethrough to fasten the brackets to cross members. A single fastener can be used to fasten multiple cross members to the bracket. The first and/or second outer portions can additionally serve to space apart a first cross member from a second cross member. | 07-10-2014 |
20140202511 | Mechanism for Folding and Unfolding a Tent or Awning - A mechanism for folding and unfolding the top of a tent comprises a connecting seat, a sliding seat and an elastic telescopic part, wherein the connecting seat is connected with a tent top rod in a pivoted mode, and the sliding seat is connected with a connecting part in a pivoted mode and moves up and down with respect to the connecting seat. The other end of the connecting part is connected onto the tent top rod in a pivoted mode. The middle portion of the connecting seat extends downwards to form an accommodating seat which accommodates the elastic telescopic part. The upper portion of the sliding seat forms a sinking seat which has an outer diameter larger than that of the accommodating seat. | 07-24-2014 |
20140251400 | Connector Device for a Telescoping Tent Pole - A connector device connects tent poles and includes a tubular member having an interior with an interior surface having a detent and a lower aperture for receiving a lower tent pole into the interior. A top member on the tubular member has an upper aperture for receiving an upper tent pole into the interior of the tubular member. The detent secures the lower tent pole to the tubular member in a snap-fit engagement and the upper pole is releasably lockable with the lower pole. Another connector device includes a tubular member having a longitudinal axis, and an outer surface having a tent fly fastener for fastening a tent fly, a slit extending parallel to the longitudinal axis, and a fastener receptacle to receive a fastener oriented perpendicular to the slit. | 09-11-2014 |
20140338710 | Collapsible mechanism at the top of a collapsible tent - The present invention is provided with a collapsible mechanism at the top of a collapsible tent, which comprises a top base and at least two sets of supporting pole sets. The top base comprises an upper pivot base, a lower pivot base and a vertical pole to fix the upper pivot base and the lower pivot base; at least two sets of supporting pole sets are connected to the top base and arranged annularly; each of the supporting pole set comprises a sub-pole, a connecting base and a supporting pole, a first end of the sub-pole is pivot joint with the lower pivot base, a second end of the sub-pole is pivot joint with the supporting pole, the connecting base is pivot joint with the upper pivot base, the connecting base is slidably connected to the sub-pole and form a flexible structure. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338711 | CONTROL STRUCTURE FOR FOLDING A SHELTER - Described is a control structure for unfolding and folding a collapsible device or shelter. The control structure includes a sliding seat that is pivotally connected to adapter members, which are in turn connected to poles, e.g., tent poles. The tent poles are also pivotally connected to a lower support, and a resilient member (e.g., a spring) forces a separating between the sliding seat the the lower support. The resilient member biases the sliding seat toward the lower support to maintain the control structure in an unfolded position when open, and in a folded position when closed. | 11-20-2014 |
20150136191 | ADJUSTABLE FRAME CONECTOR - An adjustable frame connector comprising at least two fixed tubular legs and an adjustable tubular leg. The fixed legs have inner ends that are joined together, and have longitudinal axes that intersect each other at right angles. The adjustable leg has an inner end that is pivotally attached to the fixed legs at their juncture so that the adjustable leg can be moved from a first position wherein its longitudinal axis is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of a first one of the fixed tubular legs to a second position wherein its longitudinal axis is at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the first one of the fixed tubular legs. Releasable locking means allows the adjustable leg to be releasably locked into position relative to the first one of the fixed tubular legs at any selected location along the ninety degree arc between its first and second positions. | 05-21-2015 |
20160115707 | ACCESSORY MOUNT FOR A HUNTING BLIND - A tool-less hub is provided for hunting blinds and tent structures. Poles with particularly-shaped protrusions are insertable in and removable from the tool-less hub. The protrusions allow the pole to enter the tool-less hub at a particular angle, but once rotated to a different angle, the pole is secured with the hub. And thus, no tools are required to change out a broken pole from the hub. In addition, the tool-less hub may comprise a location for an accessory mount, which may comprise a plurality of bodies that articulate about each other. Accessories such as cameras, lights, game calls, scent dispensers, firearms, shelves, hooks, etc. may be interconnected to the accessory mount, and the articulating bodies may position the accessory in any number of locations and orientations. | 04-28-2016 |