Improvements in Tents.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tents.
1, JOHN BRIERLEY HOWARD of Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, in the
County of York, Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
which has been communicated to me by Max Schwarzenberger and Siegmund
Schwarzenberger both of 41 Weinstrasse Fuerth, Cloth Merchants and Oscar
Lindner of 21 Wielandstrasse, Nurnberg, Merchant all in the Empire of Germany
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in tents chiefly designed for military
purposes and which possess the essential advantage that the cover or tent proper
consists of one piece of canvass and that all other parts belonging thereto are
permanently fixed to it. A soldier requires such a teut whenever it is necessary to
erect and to strike it in the shortest time possible, and it should only be necessary
to unloose the tent from the ground and to simply fold it up, without screwing,
binding or dismounting anything in it. This invention now fully accomplishes
these conditions, and may be erected as well as struck within a very short time.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in
which:
Fig. 1 represents an erected tent.
Fig. 2 shows a sliding pole or pillar detached from the tent.
Fig. 3 shews a spike or peg and
Figs. 4 and 5 a plan view and sectional side elevation of a loop, as fixed in the
double portion of the cloth or canvas.
According to this invention the cover consists of a rectangular piece of canvas a
to which the back part is sewn. In the middle and near each edge of the tent
canvas a and in each of the four corners, metal loops e (see Figs. 4 and 5) are fixed
and in these loops are firmly and permanently fixed the poles or pillars c and the
spikes or pegs as shewn. The pillars or poles c (see Fig. 2) consist of two, three
or more parts, which can be slid into, or drawn out of each other telescopically
and may be locked when either opened or closed by means of a bayonet lock or
joint.
The telescopic pillars or poles c as well as the spikes or pegs d, we prefer should
be made of aluminium or other metal.
Both the sides of the tent a and the back bare made of waterproof brown cotton,
or canvas or other durable material.
In erecting the tent the poles care first pushed into the ground, slided out of
each other and locked, the sides a of the tent are then stretched and the four spikes
driven into the ground and the tent is fixed. The striking is effected by proceeding
in an inverse manner. In packing up the whole, the pillars and spikes are placed
inside the cloth, which is then folded and strapped to the knapsack. The weight
of the whole is very little, and every man is able to carry his own tent and as it
only requires unfolding, and is readily put up, every soldier will with pleasure make
use of it and readily bear along this light burden.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of our
said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
A military tent, wherein both the sides a and the back bare sewn together, the
telescopic poles with bavonet locks, which together with the spikes d are fixed into

page_text: the loops of metal arranged in the canvas, so that all the parts are connected as
and for the purpose herein described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 20th 1
1000
J. BRIERLEY HOWARD,
Applicant.