Abstract: Framing table assembly for manufacturing a wall or other skeletal framework from several parallel riser-members to be accurately perpendicularly attached between two longitudinally extending base-members. The framing table assembly utilizes a pair of longitudinally extending benches for horizontally supporting the respective base-members. Each bench is equipped with a longitudinally extending array of pivotably positioned team-flippers that at a ready-station flanks and that then at a narrowed active-station securely holds respective transversely extending riser-members. After the thusly precisely held riser-members and the base-members are attached into a skeletal framework product, the product can be longitudinally rolled off the benches by virtue of downwardly recessable rollers which are periodically extendable above the bench upper-surface.

Abstract: A shelter includes a substantially rectangular fabric cover consisting mainly of square or rectangular corner sections (10, 21, 31) of a fabric which is unstable on the bias, the cover being supported, at the innermost corners of the corner sections, by one or more posts (15, 24) or ribs (37), and the outermost corners of the corner sections are attached to tensioning means (17, 28, 37) so as to stretch the corner sections (10, 21, 31) on the bias in downward and outward directions.

Abstract: An awning structure is disclosed which comprises a beam formed in two parts and joined by a joiner. The beam is coupled to an awning formed of shade cloth and canvas. The beam is deformed and connected to two poles. The deformation of the beam causes the awning to be placed under tension and the compression of the beam maintains the awning under tension when in use.