Improvements in Tents.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 15th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by LA SOCIETE NOUVELLE DE CONSTRUCTIONS-
SYSTÈME TOLLET, of S1, Rue St. Lazare, Paris, France.]
Improvements in Tents.
1, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
in the County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature.
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a simple and light construction of tent which
can be easily erected and taken down and can be compactly packet for transport..
According to one construction, a skeleton is formed consisting of four diagonal half
arches and two half transverse arches all of steel of trough section like the ribs of
umbrellas, and all meeting at a central vertical stud on which eyes which are-
attached to the arches are clamped by a nut. The feet of the half arches are
pointed to enter the soil and are all connected by chains. The half arches are also-
connected about their middles by ties which terminate in rings engaging rings on.
the half arches. The skeleton is covered with canvas or other suitable fabric, the
upper middle part of which may be raised as a ridge presenting triangular openings
at each end of it. According to a modified construction, three transverse arches.
each consisting of two half arches connected together at the top are attached to a
wooden ridge, and are also connected by longitudinal ties.
Dated this 18th day of July 1892.
ABEL & IMKAY,
Agents for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tents.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane
in the County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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:-
This invention has for its object a simple and light construction of tent which
can be easily erected and taken down and can be compactly packed for transport.
One.construction of tent according to this invention is shewn in Sheet I of the
accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3
is a plan of the tent frame without the cover which may be of canvas or other
suitable fabric. Fig. 14 is a perspective shewing the tent covered. The other
figures shew to an enlarged scale structural details of the framing. Four diagonal
half arches A and two transverse half arches B made of steel of trough section, have.
fixed to these ends eyes e (Figs. 4 and 5) the holes fof which are all engaged on
one central bolt C having a head a a nut b and part of it a screw threaded. The
bolt C is sufficiently long to allow all the half arches to be superposed for transport,.
but when the tent is erected, the nut is pushed along the bolt to the threaded part
and is then screwed up tightening all the eyes e together between it and the head a.
The other ends of the half arches are pointed as shewn in Fig. 6 to enter the ground
and they have holes g to receive S links of chains D Fig. 7 by which these ends
are all connected. Four stays E are attached in pairs to the half arches Bas
shewn in Fig. 8, each stay E having rivetted to it an eye piece the eye i of which
engages a double eye piccej rivetted to B. To the other end of each stay E is
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page_text: jointed a foot k as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10. Two transverse stays F are similarly
provided with feet at each end.
On the half arches A are fixed rings / Fig. 11, and are fitted sliding rings / Figs. 12
and 13 provided with setting screws n. The feet of the stays E and Fare
engaged with the fixed rings by sliding the one end of each foot into 1, and then
sliding the ring over the other end of each foot and clamping it to A by the
screw n. In the cover of the tent as shewn in Fig. 14 there may be windows or
openings m.
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A modified construction of tent is shewn in Sheet II, Fig. 1 being a side view,
Fig. 2 an end view and Fig. 3 a plan shewing the framing without cover.
and 5 shew details; and Fig. 6 shews the tent covered.
Figs. 4
In this construction there
are six half arches F which are connected together and to a wooden ridge piece G
as shewn in Figs. 4 and 5. One of the half arches F has rivetted to its end a bent
blade o which enters the end of the other half and is fixed therein by a cross key p
secured by a pin.q. To the blade o are rivetted angle pieces, and to ridge
piece Gare screwed shorter angle pieces s, so that G, which rests on o, and the
half arches F are firmly steadied together, their separation being prevented by a
hook passed through holes in and The hook t key and pin 9 are chained
to the end of a buttress strut H. Longitudinal ties are attached at a to the
half arches F to give intermediate supports to the cover of the tent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The construction of tent herein described with reference to the figures on
Sheet of the accompanying drawings.
2. The modified construction of tent herein described with reference to the
figures on Sheet II of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of April 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.