US302535A - holabird - Google Patents

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I s. B. HOLABIRD.

TENT.

No. 302,535. Patent-ed July 22. 1884.

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TENT.

Patented July 22, 1884.

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SAMUEL B. HOLABIRD, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

TENIT.

SPECIFICATION iorming part of Letters Patent No. 302,335, dated July 22 1884.

Application filed July 1, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. HOLABIRD, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tents; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of 'a tent embodying my invention, with the sides and ends of the tent let down, but with a portion of one of the ends turned back, so as to show the supplemental piece fastened to the inner side thereof. Figs. 2 and 5 are perspective views of the tent in an entirely closed position. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of one corner of the tent. Fig. 4. is a perspective up. Fig. 6 is a perspective view with one side let down and the other side and the ends rolled up. Fig. 8 is a view in detail of the ventilator entirely open. Fig. 7 is a view in detail of the ventilator partially closed.

Like letters refer to the same parts in all the figures. I

A is the tent, made of any suitable material and of the usual shape, but the main body of which does not extend to the ground. This tent is mounted upon two poles, E E, one near each end thereof and has a suitable number of ropes, B B, extending from the lower portion of and in line with its inclined sides and beyond them to the ground, where the ropes may be fastened to tent-pins in the customary manner. Secured to the bottom edges of the tent are supplemental pieces G, which extend vertically downward and are fastened to tentpins at their lower edges. There are as many of these supplemental pieces as there are sides and ends to the tent, and they are detachably secured to each other in any suitable, but preferablyin the following, manner: One piece has a series of looped cords attached to it at suitable intervals, while the other piece has a series of eyelets spaced apart to correspond with the looped cords. The highest looped cord is passed through the highest eyelet, and the next (No model.)

cured to each other, and to the ground. The

supplemental pieces may be unlaced and rolled up, and secured in that position by strings, buttons, or in any equivalent manner. It is manifest that one or all of these supplemental pieces may be rolled up, as circumstances may render desirable, and when this is done ventilation is afforded, the occupants are enabled to see outside of the tent, and are at the same time protected from the weather. Two venti lating-openings, O O, are made in the walls of the ends of the tent, and flaps D D are hinged to the inside of such walls, and may be adjusted by strings in such a manner that they partially or entirely close said openings, as may be deemed necessary by the occupant of the tent.

I have illustrated my invention as applied to a wall-tent; but it is equally applicable to the other well-known forms of tents.

I am aware that tents have been made with one supplemental piece extending entirely around the lower portion thereof, and that this supplemental piece could be raised, so as to leave an open space between the main body of the tent and the ground; and I also am aware that tents have been made with ventilating-openings in their walls; but these I do not claim.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A tent having its lower portion divided into several portions adapted to be separately lifted and folded, substantially as shown and described.

2. Atent having a main body and a number of supplemental pieces secured to said body and detachably fastened to each other, substantially as shown and described.

3. A tent having a main body, a number of supplemental pieces secured to said body and detachably fastened'to. each other, and fastening devices for retaining the supplemental pieces in a raised position, substantially as shown and described.

4. A tent having its lower portion divided into several portions, one portion being pro- Vided with looped cords and the adjacent portion with eyelets, substantially as shown and described.

5. The method of fastening the several portions of the tent together and to the ground, which consists in passing theloops of the one part through the eyelet-s of the other part and 10 then through the loop nextabove, and in addition passing the lowest loop over a tent-pin, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL 13. HOLABIRD.

XVitnesses:

FRANK T. BROWN, J. G. CHANDLER.

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