Patent ID: 8051867

Claim:
A method of assembling a tent including the steps of: supporting a fabric shell including first and second fabric gable panels by a frame of a tent; and connecting the first and second gable panels to form a gable portion of the tent by connecting a first side of the first gable panel with a second side of the second gable panel with a connecting strip, wherein the connecting strip is a keder rail having opposite keder channels and the first and second sides of the first and second gable panels are keders received in the opposite keder channels respectively, and the gable portion has a bottom side that is substantially horizontal, the bottom side being located a first distance above the ground, the gable portion having a peak located at a second distance from the bottom side, the first distance being less than the second distance, the gable portion defining a plane that is substantially vertical; the step of connecting the first and second gable panels occurring while the first and second fabric panels are supported by the frame of the tent; the step of connecting the first and second gable panels forms a seam therebetween provided by the connecting strip, the seam extending vertically downward from a peak of the tent; the step of connecting the first and second gable panels includes flexing the connecting strip out of the substantially vertical plane defined by the gable portion to allow initially engaging the connecting strip with the first and second sides of the gable panel proximate the bottom side of the gable portion; and the step of connecting includes axially pushing the connecting strip along both the first and second sides vertically upward relative to gravity in a direction extend towards the peak of the tent from the bottom side of the gable portion to engage the first and second sides with the connecting strip to form the seam and the gable panel.