Patent ID: 6776179
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
A quick-pitch/strike tent comprising a frame and a cloth housing, wherein:the frame comprises a crown and multiple poles pivotally connected to the crown, each pole with a distal end and a proximal end is composed of multiple sections and a joint mounted between each pair of adjacent sections; wherein each joint in the poles comprises a male leaf, a lock and a female leaf, where the male leaf and the female leaf are held together and pivot relative to each other and wherein the male leaf comprises a male head and an attachment sleeve formed under the male head, and the female leaf comprises a female head and an attachment sleeve formed under the female head; wherein the male head is a disk and has an outer edge, an inside face, an outside face, a concentric arched limit groove, a keyhole and a locking protrusion, wherein the inside face and the outside face are circular and have a center; the concentric arched limit groove is an arc, has a pitched end and a struck end and is concentric with the center of the inside face; the keyhole with an inner surface is defined through the male leaf at a position between the pitched end of the concentric arced limit groove and the attachment sleeve; the locking protrusion is formed on the outside face concentric with the keyhole and has an end, and a keyway is formed in the inner surface of the keyhole and the locking protrusion; the female head is a disk and has an outer edge, an inside face, an outside face, a limit stub and a lock hole, wherein the inside face and the outside face are circular and have a center; the limit stub is formed off-center on the inside face of the female head and is mounted in the concentric arched limit groove in the male head; the lock hole is formed in the inside face of the female head near the limit stub; the attachment sleeve is hollow, has an internal channel and a proximal end formed integrally with the outer edge of the corresponding head, and one of the sections of the corresponding one pole is securely mounted in the internal channel to connect the joint to the corresponding pole; the lock is a cylindrical rod with a locking end and an actuating end and comprises a transverse diametric hole, a key, an annular flange, a pull ring and a spring, wherein the transverse diametric hole is formed near the actuating end of the lock; the annular flange is formed integrally with and extends radially from the lock near the locking end; the key is cylindrical and protrudes radially from the lock between the transverse diametric hole and the annular flange; the spring is mounted around the lock between the annular flange and the end of the locking protrusion, and the spring and the actuating end of the lock are inserted into the keyhole; the pull ring is inserted through and mounted in the transverse diametric hole; the cloth housing is suspended on the frame and has a canopy having a roof, multiple walls and multiple seams, where the roof has multiple panels and a central peak with a peak and is attached to the multiple walls at a specific angle; a floor having multiple corners and attached to the canopy; and multiple flexible loops attached to the central peak, the seams and the corners of the floor of the cloth housing are connected to the poles.