Patent ID: 9410343
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: E04H,Y02A,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A frame support for a portable shelter frame, the frame support being selectively articulable between an erected state and a collapsed state, the frame support comprising: a central frame member; a pair of upper arcuate frame members; a pair of first joints each coupled to one end of the central frame member, and respectively to one end of each of the pair of upper arcuate frame members, so that the upper arcuate frame members are rotatably coupled to the central frame member, and so that each pair of upper arcuate frame members is selectively moveable between a first, fixed position when the frame support is in the erected state and a second, fixed position when the frame support is in the collapsed state; a pair of lower arcuate frame members; and a pair of second joints each coupled respectively to the other ends of the pair of upper arcuate frame members, and to one end of each of the pair of lower arcuate frame members, so that respective ones of upper and lower arcuate frame members are rotatably coupled to each other, and so that each pair of lower arcuate frame members is selectively moveable between a first, fixed position when the frame support is in the erected state and a second, fixed position when the frame support is in the collapsed state, wherein the second joints each include a guide pin and an arcuate slot, wherein the guide pin travels within the arcuate slot as the lower arcuate frame member moves between the first, fixed position and the second, fixed position.