Patent ID: 8387643

Claim:
A tent including: at least three individual resilient frame elements, integrated with a tent covering, which extend the tent covering when the tent is changed from a collapsed position to an erected position, wherein each of the at least three individual resilient frame elements is a respective endless loop, wherein a first said frame element and a second said frame element of the at least three individual resilient frame elements cross at two positions adjacent an underside of the tent, the two positions being on each of two opposite sides of the tent, at least with the tent in the erected position, while arch parts remote from each other of a third frame element of the three individual resilient frame elements extend at positions between an upper side of the tent and the underside of the tent, at least, with the tent in the erected position, wherein: both the first frame element and the second frame element each include a top part located, with the tent in the erected position, adjacent the upper side of the tent; both the first frame element and the second frame element include a lower part located, with the tent in the erected position, adjacent the underside of the tent; and the arch parts remote from each other of the third frame element extend, with the tent in the erected position, at: lower positions than upper arch parts of the first frame element and second frame element, and higher positions than lower arch parts of the first frame element and second frame element; and wherein the tent, when in the erected position, is supported by the first and second frame elements and the tent covering such that the third frame element is suspended above a tent underside, and extends at all points along the third frame element, a non-zero distance from the tent underside.