An Improved. Folding Tent.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved. Folding Tent.
I, MORITZ BRUNO FORBRIGER, of Schoenefeld, near Leipzig in the Kingdom of
Saxony, German Empire, Teacher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows
My invention relates to a folding tent which is constructed in such a manner that
it can be easily put up for instance on a garden lawn, and again easily taken down,
folded and stowed away without requiring much space.
A folding tent according to my invention consists in several say five or six semi-
circular, elongated bows, each set of ends of which are jointed together with a pin or
bolt in such a manner that each bow can turn on the said pin independently of another
bow. The bows are not all the same size and therefore when all the bows are in the
same position, say perpendicular relatively to the ground then they are inside each
other that is to say the largest one surrounds the next one in size, the next the third
and so on, this being of course also the order of position on the pins.
Two of the said bows are particularly strong and are intended to act as rockers and
supports, for which purpose they are spread from each other at an angle of say
between 45 and 90 degrees, relatively to each other and half of that relatively to the
ground.
The other bows are intended to provide supports for the tent roof and may there-
fore be made of lighter material. They are placed in such a position, that two of
them are perpendicular, the others at angles of say between 90 and 180° relatively
to the ground, the two former being tied or otherwise fastened together and on
account of their diametrical difference they interlock, the one inside the other.
Between the two pins, which connect the bows a hammock or similar contrivance
may be hung up.
Canvas is stretched over the bows forming the roof and may be made so long that
it reaches the ground thus covering the entire construction.
London. 30th October 1889.
MORITZ BRUNO FORBRIGER.
Per C. R. Bonne & Co.,
41, Eastcheap, E.C., Registered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Folding Tent.
J, MORITZ BRUNO FORBRIGER of Schoenefeld near Leipzig, in the Kingdom of
Saxony, Empire of Germany, Teacher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is a folding tent, intended as a substitute for beach
baskets and for various other purposes, and being of a peculiar construction to render
it at the same time very serviceable and adapted to be easily put up or folded and
carried.
The improved folding tent, which can also be used as a rocking tent, consists in the
main of a number of bow-shaped beams serving for various purposes relatively to
each other as hereafter described.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings Sheets I and II, in the different,
figures of which like letters designate like or corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the improved folding tent, the canvas or covering being
shown as cut away on one side.
Fig. 2 is an inside front or rear view of the tent •

page_text: Fig. 3 is a side view of the closed tent illustrated as used as a rocking tent.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the frame or skeleton folded up one way;
Fig. a front or rear view thereof in section.
Fig. 6 is a side view of the skeleton folded up both ways;
Fig. 7 front or rear view thereto in section.
Fig. 8 shows on an enlarged scale in front or rear-view the disposition of one of
the two pins or pivots about which the various bows of the skeleton are movable.
Fig. 9 is a side view of the adjusting disks for the lateral bows;
Fig: 10 shows, drawn to the same scale, the disposition of the pivots relatively to
the bows;
Fig. 11 illustrates in side view the mode of coupling the median upper bows,
Fig. 12 is a sectional front or rear view, and
Fig. 13 a plan thereof.
Fig. 14 is a sectional front or rear view showing the manner of attaching the two
halves of the cover or canvas to the median bows.
Fig. 15 is a plan thereto.
Fig. 16 is a partial elevation of a rocking tent with single top bow,
Fig. 17 a front or rear view thereto and
Fig. 18 illustrates on an enlarged scale in partial side view the folded up skeleton
of the tent with single top bow.
The bows A and B of the improved folding and rocking tent serve to rest on the
ground as supports for the whole and are stiffened relatively to each other by means
of intermediate pieces K. These two bows serve at the same time to allow the whole
tent to be given a rocking movement. The two bows E and F are destined to hold the
canvas or covering fabric, while the contiguous bows C and D form the top or roof of
the tent. As shown by Figs. 11 to 13, the bows C and D) are held together by
means of a connecting piece consisting of a suitably shaped catch G or of a spring.
Also a single, bow D₁ may be substituted for the two bows C and D, as shown in
Figs. 16 to 18. This single bow D' is held upright by the cloth or canvas, which in
this case is of a piece; Fig. 17, and is attached by means of loops or such like to E
and F as well as to D₁; but the bow may also be maintained upright by any other
suitable contrivance:
Each bow is revoluble with its two ends about the pins or pivots a, which are so
disposed as to allow the extremities of a hammock or such like to be attached' thereto
as shown in Fig. 1. A binging b is provided in the middle of each bow so as to
admit of their being folded up to nearly a quarter of a circle, Fig. 6. Each of the
two pivots a is provided with two stop plates f Figs. 8 to 10 for the purpose of main-
taining the two lateral bows E and F in position and also in proper tension relatively
to the bows C and D Fig. 2.
The improved tent is folded up as follows:-
The two upper bows C and D are separated and the two intermediato pieces K
folded back. After the cloth or canvas has been removed and rolled up, the bows A
BCDEFäre laid together so as to enclose each other as shown in Fig. 4, forming
about a seinicircle, which can then be reduced by means of the median hinges b to
the shape or compass shewn in Fig. 6. In the same manner also the tent illustrated
by Figs. 17 and 18 is folded up except that in the first instance the canvas is taken
off and then the top bow D' folded down.
The whole tent; as is obvious, can be folded up to a small volume and therefore
easily carried from place to place.
Moreover the occupant or occupants can at pleasure indulge in swinging or rocking
movement in the hammock as well as by moving the whole tent or placing it so as
to be moved by the wind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in. what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1) A folding tent consisting of a number of bows movable about pins or pivots a,

page_text: two of which, A and B, are stiffened by intermediate pieces K and serve as supports
and rocking bows, while the rest form the roof, the uppermost bows C and D being
coupled together and the bows E and F adapted to be held in position by abutting
plates provided on the pivots a, the whole of the bows being adapted either to be
laid together one way, Fig. 4, or to be folded up to a smaller compass, Fig. 6, by
means of hinges & provided in their middle, substantially as illustrated and described.
2) In the folding tent forming the subject of claim 1, the application, as a sub-
stitute for the two top bows CD, of a single bow D'adapted to be held upright by the
canvas or cover, Fig. 16, or by any other equivalent device, substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 25th of July 1890.
MORITZ BRUNO FORBRIGER.
By Huelser & Co.,
142, Fleet Street, London, Attorneys.