Patent ID: 8375968

Claim:
A pivotally retractable sportsman's blind for releasable attachment to an inflatable float tube having a “U” shape comprising in combination: a flexible fabric body having an inner surface and outer surface and a circumferential edge extending thereabout and plural spacedly arrayed stay envelopes on the inner surface extending from a first circumferential edge portion to a second circumferential edge portion; a frame of plural resiliently deformable single piece stays of the same length, each stay carried in a stay envelope to flex into an arc and extend the flexible body into a hemispherical shape, each stay having opposing end portions, each end portion of each stay defining a pivot axle hole; a pivot axle simultaneously carried in the pivot axle holes of proximate end portions of each stay to maintain the stay end portions in pivotal relationship with one another to allow each stay to pivot independently of the other stays to allow the frame and flexible body to pivot from a first extended position to a second retracted position; a “U” shaped float tube having a first arm, a spaced apart second arm and a back portion communicating between the first arm and the second arm at proximate end portions of the arms, and a fabric covering extending about the entire float tube; an attachment means for releasably fastening the frame and flexible body to upper portions of the first and second arms of the inflatable “U” shaped float tube; and a flexible window carried by the flexible body to allow an occupant within the blind to see outwardly from within the blind through the flexible window.