Patent ID: 8267106
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
1. A retractable shelter shiftable between a horizontal stored position and a deployed position, the shelter comprising: a pair of rails; a movable elongate member reciprocal along each of the rails; a plurality of poles slidable along the rails in response to reciprocal movement of the elongate members to which at least one pole along each rail is attached, each pole extending between the rails and supporting a pliable canopy, wherein the poles are rotatable at one end of the rails between the horizontal stored position and an upright configuration, the poles being movable in the upright configuration, toward an opposite end of the rails to the deployed position; wherein each pole is mounted on a pole holding member having pulleys rotating as the pole holding members move along the rail on which the pole holding member is mounted; and wherein the pole holding members are positioned on swing arms located at the one end of the rails so that the swing arms pivot to move the poles mounted on pole holding members between the horizontal storage position and the upright configuration,, and wherein the pole holding members are pivotal with the poles mounted thereon with the pole holding members being mounted on the tracks at the one end, the swing arms being rotatable independently of the pivoting pole holding members, the poles rotating toward an upright position as the elongate members move toward the opposite end of the tracks by movement of the pliable canopy.