Patents Examined by Dinnie Yip
  • Patent number: 6591849
    Abstract: A portable shelter is disclosed. The portable shelter includes a canopy and a frame supporting the canopy. The frame of the portable shelter includes a plurality of support poles and a plurality of cross poles. Each cross pole of the portable shelter is pivotally coupled between adjacent support poles for rotation about an axis parallel to the support poles. Each support pole moves between an extended position in which the support pole extends perpendicular to the cross poles and a collapsed position in which the support pole extends along the cross poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas R. Swetish, William R. Baumann