Patents Represented by Law Firm Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson LLP
  • Patent number: 5573028
    Abstract: The invention relates to a collapsible shelter comprising a cloth of supple, sheet-like material and of at least one frame for stretching the sheet-like material, said frame being provided with at least one hub and with rods having high bending strength, said rods being hingably connected to the hub, in a plane perpendicular to the hub, and being hingable relative to the hub beyond a dead center, at least a number of said rods being connected at their free ends with the sheet-like material. The shelter includes a pull cord which is secured at one of its ends to the material and is positioned through a cord eyelet mounted at the free end of the rod so that the material can be pulled outward from the hub toward the free end of the rod, with the other end of the cord being releasably secured in a clamp located on the rod between the eyelet and the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: T. A. Pelsue Company
    Inventor: Aart J. W. van der Stigohel