Patent ID: 8695859
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A01M,A45F

Abstract:
1. A combination frameless hunting blind and backpack, comprising: a backpack having a shoulder strap coupled and uncoupled by a closure; a veil of web material adapted for service as a blind, and extending from an upper vertex to hang from a high suspension point to an outspread bottom for resting on the ground, and also having a spreading shape adapted for one or more hunters to be concealed behind; said backpack forming a case; said case being formed with an opening, and having a closure for the opening, as well as defining a compartment adapted for the veil to be stuffed and shut closed inside for travel; said vertex being attached to the backpack wherein when packed for travel the veil is stuffed and shut inside the compartment and when deployed for use said shoulder straps and closures are adapted to loop around a shaft in the field; wherein the spreading shape can take on any of a pyramidal shape, a teepee shape, a flaring root-flare shape, or an irregularly-pleated flaring root-flare shape; wherein the outspread bottom flares the veil angularly underneath the suspended vertex such that the veil flares to form at least 180° surround around a user concealed behind and inside the flared veil; and wherein the spreading shape of the veil converges into said vertex which ranges in extent from being a point to an edge that is too abbreviated to wrap fully around the user's waist and be cinched underneath by a belt; whereby the backpack defines the high suspension point and the veil is adapted to be outspread in the spreading shape under the high suspension point; said case being formed such that said opening comprises a horizontal span when shut; said case having an underside edge and an upperside edge defining said opening therebetween; said veil being formed such that the vertex comprises a short span of an edge of the web material; said vertex being attached to the case inside the compartment and under the underside edge; said case further comprises further compartments and/or firearm-cartridge sleeves below the elevation of the underside edge, whereby ammunition stored in said further compartments and/or firearm-cartridge sleeves is accessed by the user from the outside of the backpack during non-use and/or travel, but then after set up of the veil in the form of a deployed blind, the ammunition stored in said further compartments and/or firearm-cartridge sleeves is accessed by the user while concealed inside the surrounds of blind, behind and inside the outspread veil.