Private tanning enclosure

A private tanning enclosure for permitting a user to tan in privacy. The private tanning enclosure includes a collapsible frame enclosed by a porous material designed for permitting ultraviolet light in for tanning purposes, but does not allow the user inside to be seen.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to private tanning enclosures and more particularly pertains to a new private tanning enclosure for permitting a user to tan in privacy.

2. Description of the Prior Art

The use of private tanning enclosures is known in the prior art. More specifically, private tanning enclosures heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.

While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new private tanning enclosure. The inventive device, includes a collapsible frame enclosed by a porous material designed for permitting ultraviolet light in for tanning purposes, but does not allow the user inside to be seen.

In these respects, the private tanning enclosure according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of permitting a user to tan in privacy.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of private tanning enclosures now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new private tanning enclosure construction wherein the same can be utilized for permitting a user to tan in privacy.

The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new private tanning enclosure apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the private tanning enclosures mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new private tanning enclosure which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art private tanning enclosures, either alone or in any combination thereof.

To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a collapsible frame enclosed by a porous material designed for permitting ultraviolet light in for tanning purposes, but does not allow the user inside to be seen.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new private tanning enclosure apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the private tanning enclosures mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new private tanning enclosure which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art private tanning enclosures, either alone or in any combination thereof.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a new private tanning enclosure, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new private tanning enclosure, which is of a durable and reliable construction.

An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such private tanning enclosure economically available to the buying public.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure for permitting a user to tan in privacy.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure which includes a collapsible frame enclosed by a porous material designed for permitting ultraviolet light in for tanning purposes, but-does not allow the user inside to be seen.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure that would allow a user to tan in complete privacy wherever they wanted to.

Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new private tanning enclosure that is collapsible, thus making it compact and portable.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to FIGS. 1 through 4 thereof, a new private tanning enclosure embodying the principles and concepts of the present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral 10 will be described.

As best illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 4 , the private tanning enclosure 10 generally comprises a frame 12 that has a plurality of legs 14 . The legs 14 are designed for engaging a support surface such that the frame 12 is held upright by the legs 14 .

A screen member 16 that has a perimeter wall 18 coupled to the frame 12 . The perimeter wall 18 defines an interior space 20 of the screen member 16 when the perimeter wall 18 is coupled to the frame 12 .

The perimeter wall 18 has a top wall 22 , which has an aperture 24 . The aperture 24 permits access to the interior space 20 by the user when the user desires privacy. The aperture 24 is designed for permitting light to pass through to the user when the user is positioned in the interior space 20 .

The frame 12 has a plurality of guide wires 26 . Each of the guide wires 26 is coupled between a pair of adjacent legs 14 . Each of the guide wires 26 is for maintaining the perimeter wall 18 of the screen member 16 in an erected position when the user is positioned within the interior space 20 of the screen member 16 .

Each of the guide wires 26 comprises a flexible material. The flexible material of the guide wires 26 facilitates collapsing of the screen member 16 and the frame 12 for more compact storage.

Each of the legs 14 has a first portion 28 and a second portion 30 . The first portion 28 of each of the legs 14 are hingably coupled to the second portion 30 of an associated one of the legs 14 such that each of the legs 14 is foldable into a compact position for facilitating storage of the frame 12 and the screen member 16 .

A cover member 32 is selectively couplable to the top wall 22 of the perimeter wall 18 . The cover member 32 is for selectively closing the aperture 24 through the top wall 22 when the user is positioned within the interior space 20 of the screen member 16 .

The top wall 22 has a plurality of first portions of hook and loop fasteners 34 . The cover member 32 has a plurality of second portions of hook and loop fasteners 36 . Each of the first portions of hook and loop fasteners 34 of the top wall 22 is selectively couplable to one of the second portions of hook and loop fasteners 36 of the cover member 32 for selectively securing the cover member 32 to the top wall 22 of the perimeter wall 18 of the screen member 16 .

The screen member 16 and the cover member 32 comprise a substantially porous material 38 . The porous material 38 is designed for permitting ultraviolet light to pass through the screen member 16 and the cover member 32 for facilitating tanning of the user when the user is within the interior space 20 of the screen member 16 .

The porous material 38 inhibits viewing of the user when the user is within the interior space 20 of the screen member 16 .