Improvements in Tents.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
Improvements in Tents.
I, ISIDOR MAUTNER, of 1 Schottenring 15, Vienna, in the Empire of Austria,
Manufacturer, 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 relates to collapsible tents.
Heretofore the parts of tents have been connected together by means of studs
passed through button-holes suitably cut into the superposed edges of the parts of
the tent. On the other hand, the tent is fastened to the pegs by means of annular
eyelets pressed into the lower edge of said parts, and through which the fastening
ropes are passed.
These fastening devices have the following inconveniences: First, in very cold
weather, it is very difficult and sometimes impossible, to get the studs into the
button-holes; further the repeated insertion into and removal from the button-
holes result in the wearing off of the latter; and the edges of the fabric arc
weakened by the button-holes cut into them.
When the constituent parts of tents are piled up in great numbers for storage,
the studs wear through the material. The latter is moreover rapidly worn out
owing to repeated handling and also to the unequal tension exerted on it. This
last inconvenience arises in particular when the tent is pitched on uneven ground,
in which case the tension is not the same on all the studs and button-holes.
Finally when the sides of the tent are fastened to the pegs, the eyelets will cut
through the material by means of their sharp edges and will after a short time
be torn off.
The improvements to which this invention relates obviate these defects since in
order to connect two consecutive side-pieces, use is made of rings fastened in rows
near to or on the edges and when the latter are laid on each other, a strip or
rope may be easily passed through said rings. The ropes for fastening the tent
to the pegs are passed through double eyelets connected together by a web.
These improvements moreover allow of erecting the tents or taking them to
pieces in a relatively much shorter time than has been possible hitherto.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 represents a tent erected in position and made of side-pieces provided
with the improvements to which this invention relates and
Figures 2 and 3 show respectively part of the lateral and of the lower edge of
a side-piece of the tent, drawn to an enlarged scale.
As shown, each side-piece, has fastened to the lateral edge a on one or both
sides, two rows of rings 6 at a suitable distance apart, through which after the edges
of the two side-pieces it is desired to connect together have been laid on each other,
strings or ropes may be easily and rapidly passed. These strings or ropes are
secured at one end to the side-piece itself, and once made taut, they firmly secure
the two consecutive side-pieces of the tent to each other their other ends being
fastened to the pole or the pegs of the tent, in order to keep the ropes taut.
To the lower edges d of the side pieces which are to be roped to the ground, i.e.,
to the pegs, are fastened double-eyelets ff connected together by a web g within
which the material of the tent is firmly clamped in such a manner that there is no
possibility of the eyelets cutting through the material or being torn off the same
in consequence of the traction exerted by the rope h passing through the eyelets
and fastened to the news.

page_text: 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 :-
1st. In a collapsible teut rows of rings 6 fastened on one or both sides to the
lateral edges a of the side-piece, through which rings, strings or ropes are passed
after the edges of two consecutive side-pieces have been laid upon each other.
2nd. In a collapsible tent double-eyelets f connected by a web y clamping the
material of the tent and fastened to the lower edges d of the side-pieces through
which eyelets ropes are passed in order to secure the tent to the pegs.
Dated this 18th day of January 1891
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.