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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H15/00—Tents or canopies, in general
  • E04H15/32—Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds
  • E04H15/34—Supporting means, e.g. frames
  • E04H15/44—Supporting means, e.g. frames collapsible, e.g. breakdown type
  • E04H15/48—Supporting means, e.g. frames collapsible, e.g. breakdown type foldable, i.e. having pivoted or hinged means
  • E04H15/50—Supporting means, e.g. frames collapsible, e.g. breakdown type foldable, i.e. having pivoted or hinged means lazy-tongs type
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
  • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H15/00—Tents or canopies, in general
  • E04H15/32—Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H15/00—Tents or canopies, in general
  • E04H15/32—Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds
  • E04H15/58—Closures; Awnings; Sunshades

Definitions

• the present invention is in the field of removable and collapsible structures intended to serve as a shelter, preferably outdoors.
• Such structures comprise a framework consisting of metal elements hinged together, said frame being covered at least in the upper part by a covering element forming a roof.
• the shelter thus formed is most often in the deployed position, like a tent having a generally parallelepipedal shape.
• the structures with deployable elements are in the form of a set of articulated profiles, pantograph type, to allow the passage of an extended position adapted to support said cover element, such as a tarpaulin, to a folded position, for transport and storage, and vice versa.
• these deployable element structures comprise posts, generally four or six, serving as vertical posts of the structure. Such posts are provided telescopically, so as to move from a folded position to an extended position, and vice versa. These posts support profiles each connecting two neighboring posts to form links, and possibly profiles connected to each other and to each of said posts to form crossbowmen. In the folded position, the posts are arranged parallel to each other, while the profiles are folded against each other between said posts.
• cover element is secured to said structure, so that the folding or deployment of the shelter does not require removal of said cover element.
• the latter is made in the form of a tarpaulin in textile or plastic material, flexible and waterproof, attached to said structure.
• such a tarpaulin has an upper part intended to form the roof covering.
• This upper part has an inclined surface to promote the flow of rainwater and runoff.
• said surface may consist of several faces or a single curved face, in the case of a double-curved sheet.
• said upper portion of this sheet is extended by a lower portion, extending vertically along each side of said shelter, on a defined height.
• This lower part ensures a good flow of water to the outside of the shelter, but also improve the stability of the cover element on the supporting structure, surrounding the latter.
• the lower vertical part does not allow to offer a roof area beyond the surface of the shelter. Indeed, in the case of a stand with a counter extending along one of its sides, no protection is provided vis-à-vis said counter, outside the shelter.
• the lower part can serve as visual support, including advertising.
• the visual effect is reduced and visibility is limited.
• the present invention starts from this observation and aims to overcome the drawbacks of the state of the art, by proposing a shelter outer cover structure device.
• a shelter outer cover structure device is similar to a canopy, providing a protective surface extending outwardly of said shelter.
• this awning device is articulated, mounted in particular mobile rotation on the structure of the shelter.
• This mobility allows him to take several positions, including, non-exhaustively, a vertical position facing upward to serve as a display medium located at the level of the upper part of the roof covering, an opposite vertical position facing downwards, and a horizontal or substantially horizontal position, which may then have a small decreasing slope towards the outside to promote the flow of runoff, forming and an outer protective surface, especially against the weather.
• the articulation of the device gives it several configurations at its lateral edges, which can be straight and parallel to each other, but also extend obliquely, in particular to cooperate with a similar device subject to the level of a contiguous edge said shelter.
• such a device can be provided folding and unfoldable, but also removable, facilitating its assembly and disassembly, as well as its transport and storage.
• said device is designed to be secured independently on a shelter, this shelter comprising vertical posts interconnected by articulated sections and supporting a cover element.
• said device comprises an outer covering element supported, on the one hand, by at least two arms, each being provided at one end with articulated attachment means with a post of said shelter, and, on the other hand, with at least a support bar connected to the opposite end of each of said arms.
• said support bar may be constituted by a telescopic section.
• said articulated attachment means may comprise at least one horizontal articulation, so as to position the arm to which it is connected in angular configurations in a horizontal plane.
• said articulated attachment means may comprise at least one vertical hinge, so as to position the arm to which it is connected in angular positions in a vertical plane.
• each articulation may comprise means for indexing the position or the configuration of the arm to which it is connected.
• said device may comprise at least one reinforcing rod, provided at one end with connecting means with at least one of the profiles of said shelter and at the opposite end of connecting means with said support bar.
• FIG. 1 shows schematically a perspective view from below of an example of foldable and collapsible shelter for receiving a device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 schematically shows a perspective view from above of the structure of a shelter, without cover, receiving two devices in particular configurations in substantially horizontal positions;
• FIG. 3 schematically shows a top view showing the device in a first configuration, extending in the continuity of the edges of the shelter;
• FIG. 4 schematically shows a top view showing the device in a second configuration, extending obliquely with respect to the shelter;
• FIG. 5 schematically represents a view from above of a third configuration, in which two devices are secured on two adjacent edges of a shelter, a first of said devices being trapezoidal in shape, while the other has a straight edge and an inclined edge co-operating at the junction at their adjacent lateral edges;
• FIG. 6 shows schematically a view in a vertical section of a device in a first position, wherein it extends substantially horizontally, with a decreasing slope of a small inclination
• Figure 7 shows schematically a similar view in Figure 7, wherein the device extends in a second position, namely turned vertically downward along the edge of said shelter;
• FIG. 8 schematically represents a view similar to FIGS. 6 and 7, in which the device extends in a third position, namely raised vertically upwards;
• FIG. 9 schematically shows a perspective view of a device mounted on the structure of a shelter, at one of its sides, according to a particular configuration, in a substantially horizontal position;
• Figure 10 shows schematically a detail of Figure 9, showing the hinged fixing means of said device on an amount of said shelter;
• Figure 11 shows schematically a side view of Figure 9, showing the slope of the inclination of the device in the substantially horizontal position;
• FIG. 12 schematically shows a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of said fastening means, in the closed position and clamping around an amount (not shown);
• Figure 13 shows schematically a view similar to Figure 12 fastening means in the open position
• FIG. 14 schematically shows a perspective view of another detail of the device according to a preferred embodiment, showing the junction of the support bar with one of the arms;
• FIG. 15 shows schematically a perspective view of a detail of the device according to another embodiment, showing the mounting of the reinforcing rod on the structure of said shelter, in particular at pantograph profiles.
• the present invention relates to a device 1 of outer cover structure of a shelter 2.
• This device 1 wants to be independent of said shelter 2, to be fixed so removable on the structure of the latter, particularly at its vertical posts 20, but also potentially at its sections 21, hinged together and connecting said posts 20 two by two.
• these profiles 21 are similar to pantographs.
• Other intermediate profiles can connect said profiles 21 and / or said posts 20.
• the bars 210 of said pantographs constituting the profiles 21 are pivotally articulated through a central element 211 connecting.
• a central element 211 receives the respective ends of said rods 210 and abutted and connected in an articulated manner.
• said device 1 extends externally, at the upper level, in extension of the covering element 22, such as a tarpaulin, supported by the structure of said shelter 2.
• a device 1 can be secured at a level of side of the structure of the shelter 2.
• FIGS. 2 and 5 several devices 1 can be positioned, in similar or different configurations, on several edges of said structure of the shelter 2.
• said shelter 2 has a square parallelepiped shape, with four posts 20, supporting a cover 22 of pyramidal shape.
• Other forms can be envisaged, with more or fewer posts 20.
• said device 1 comprises an outer covering element 3.
• the latter may be in the form of a flexible tarpaulin or a rigid or semi-rigid panel. It extends outwardly of said shelter 2, extending the surface of said shelter 2 at at least one of its lateral edges.
• an outer cover element 3 is supported by at least two arms 4.
• the latter consist of profiles extending laterally on each side of said element 3. Such profiles may be provided of fixed length, but also telescopic, so as to adapt the width of the device 1, increasing or decreasing the outer cover surface.
• each arm 4 is provided at one end 5 with hinged attachment means 6 with a post 20 of said cover 2.
• the end 5 of each arm 4 is secured to each post 20, particularly at the its upper end 200.
• the fastening means 6 may comprise a ring 60 for gripping each post 20, ensuring, on the one hand, a rapid positioning on said post 20 and its sliding along the latter and, on the other hand part, after tightening the blocking on the pole 20, without the possibility of movement along the latter.
• a preferred embodiment of such a ring 60 has a body provided with a sleeve 61.
• said sleeve 60 may consist of two parts articulated in rotation, so as to form a jaw, with an inner hollow for receiving said pole 20. This jaw can then open and close. In the closed position, it is then possible to apply a clamping of this jaw, ensuring the locking of said sleeve 60 then to grip the pole 20 it surrounds.
• said sleeve 60 has a first half-shell 610 receiving in free rotation about a vertical axis 612 a second half 611.
• Said first half-shell 610 has an arcuate shape, substantially in a circular arc. Internally, it has an inner wall 613 with sloped edges or edges, corresponding to the inclination and the dimensions of the outer edges of the pole 20 on which the ring 60 is intended to be mounted. This inclined configuration of the inner edges of the first half-shell 610 ensures the locking in rotation of the ring 60 around the pole 20.
• the second half-hull 611 has an arched or rounded shape. Its inner wall 614 can be curved, in a circular arc, thus favoring the clasping around the pole 20.
• a first end of the first half-shell 612 receives the axis 612 and a first end of said second half-shell 611.
• the opposite ends of each half-shell 610 and 611 are free, but have receiving means 615. The latter ensures, in a locking position, the maintenance of the half-shells 610, 611 against each other, by providing a space for gripping said post 20, while in a position retracted, it releases said second half-shell 611, allowing its free rotation and opening of the sleeve 61.
• FIG. 12 and 13 A very particular embodiment of such a squeezing member is shown in Figures 12 and 13, showing a pivotally articulated rod around the first half-shell 610, to cooperate interlocking within a housing at the free end of said second half-shell 611.
• the end of this rod may be provided with a button, ensuring the locking, in particular by screwing along a portion of said rod, applying from the outside, on either side of said housing, a bearing force against each other of the contiguous ends of the half-shells 610,611.
• a flange 62 on which is mounted in rotation a plate 63 receiving in fixing the end of said arm 4.
• said plate 63 has a receiving space of the wing 62. The plate 63 receives an axis 64 of rotation through said wing, allowing the free rotation of one with respect to the other.
• Said rotation can be indexed by means of an indexing member 65, cooperating within an orifice formed through said plate 63, and within holes 66 formed in angular positions within said wing 62.
• an indexing member 65 cooperating within an orifice formed through said plate 63, and within holes 66 formed in angular positions within said wing 62.
• these holes 66 are three in number and allow to orient the arm 4 horizontally or substantially horizontally, vertically upwards or vertically downwards. Other positions may be envisaged by providing holes 66 at other angles, thus defining intermediate inclined positions.
• said outer cover member 3 is also supported by at least one support bar 7 connected to the opposite end 8 of each of said arms 4. In particular, this fixing is effected at the ends of said bar 7.
• said bar 7 may be provided telescopically or consists of a single profile.
• the attachment it may be provided articulated around an axis of rotation 70 extending vertically.
• this rotation allows said arm 4 to deviate, notably from a rectangular configuration to a trapezoidal configuration, and vice versa.
• This passage is carried out in particular by changing the angular position at the level of said ring 60.
• at least one end of the bar 7 may be equipped with a tensioning member 71.
• a tensioning member 71 makes it possible to apply a force laterally to the outside, improving the rigidity of the frame thus formed by the bar 7 and the arms 4 on the structure of the shelter 2.
• this member may be in the form of a threaded tube 72, rotatably mounted around a complementary thread formed on the end of said bar 7, so that its screwing or unscrewing acts to the manner of a cam and allows to increase or decrease precisely the millimeter the length of the bar 7.
• a plate 73 makes it possible to secure all the hooking elements of the bar 7, at the end of said arm 4.
• the arms 4 and the bar 7 form a frame, on which is fixed and fixed said outer cover member 3, in particular in tension at its edges when it is a tarpaulin.
• said device 1 may comprise at least one reinforcing rod 9.
• the latter makes it possible to take the offset weight of the bar 7 at its center, or approximately in its middle, avoiding that it bends. It also improves the rigidity of the frame formed by said bar 7 and arms 4. This resumption of weight is preferably carried out when the device 1 extends horizontally or substantially horizontally.
• Such a rod 9 may extend orthogonally with respect to the structure of said shelter 2, in a plane identical to or parallel to the plane comprising said arms 4.
• substantially horizontal means a position close to the horizontal, along a slope of a few degrees, at 1 to 10 degrees, in particular 5 degrees, relative to a horizontal plane. This slope has been decreasing the shelter 2 towards the free end of the device 1.
• said rod 9 is provided at one end 90 with connecting means with at least one of the profiles 21 of said shelter 2.
• This connection 92 can be performed in particular by clipping around one or more profiles 21.
• This connection 92 can in particular operate by insertion and fixation within the central element 211 connecting the bars constituting the pantographs of the profiles 21, as can be seen in FIG. 15. This insertion can be carried out from above, which hooks the connecting means. 92 on said central element 211, which then supports the bar 7, simply by its own weight.
• said rod 9 comprises junction means with said support bar 7, in particular by clipping or clamping.
• said rod 9 may be removably provided through its connection means 92 and junction.
• the rod 9 has a rectilinear shape, consisting of a single straight section. According to other embodiments, this rod 9 may have an arcuate shape or consist of several segments, in particular shaped in L. This configuration L is particularly visible in Figures 9 and 15
• this rod 9 may be articulated at its junction with the bar 7, so as to fold and deploy easily.
• it is fixed to the bar 7 and the articulation 93 is located at the junction means 92, substantially in the plane of articulation of the plate 63 and the flange 62 of the body of the ring 60.
• said device 1 is movable so as to be arranged in several configurations. Three examples of different configurations are shown in Figures 3 to 5. Several intermediate configurations, at different angles, may be provided. Thus, it is possible to orient the device 1 in different directions around the posts 20 of the shelter 2.
• said hinged attachment means 6 comprise at least one horizontal hinge, so as to position the arm 4 to which it is connected in angular configurations in a horizontal plane.
• This horizontal articulation provides a connection in pivoting or rotation.
• said outer covering element 3 may have different shapes. It can then be changed to match the configuration set up.
• said support bar 7 may be constituted by a telescopic section, so as to increase and decrease the length, depending on the configurations taken by said device 1.
• two devices 1 can be deployed at the levels of two adjacent edges of the shelter 2. Consequently, at the levels of their contiguous side, said devices 1 can each have an independent arm 4 or common, coming to settle on the post 20.
• four devices 1 can thus be arranged around the four edges of said shelter 2.
• said hinged attachment means 6 comprise at least one vertical hinge, so as to position the arm 4 to which it is connected in angular positions in a vertical or substantially vertical plane.
• substantially vertical a position close to the vertical, along a slope of a few degrees, at 1 to 10 degrees, in particular 2 degrees, relative to a vertical plane (ie 89 to 80 degrees relative to said horizontal plane). ). This slope extends decreasingly from the shelter 2 towards the free end of the device 1.
• Said horizontal articulation also ensures a connection in pivoting or rotation.
• Three examples of different positions are shown in Figures 6 to 8. Several intermediate positions, at different angles, may be provided. Thus, it is possible to orient the device 1 in different directions around the posts 20 of the shelter 2.
• said outer cover member 3 has a defined shape, not varying from one position to another.
• the outer covering element 3 can extend along a small slope, decreasing from said shelter 2 and outwards, ensuring the flow of the runoff water.
• the positions and configurations of said device 1 can be combined together, offering multiple possibilities of positioning and coverage by the outer element 3.
• said vertical and horizontal joints may be combined, consisting of the same and single articulated element, providing the two freedoms of movement in rotation around the pole 20 on which the arm 4 is fixed.
• each articulation comprises means for indexing the position or the configuration of the arm 4 to which it is connected.
• the rotation of the arm 4 is effected according to determined positions or configurations, in particular by means of notches coming into action when the arm 4 is pivoted. This indexing makes it possible to rapidly change the position or the configuration of each arm. 4, with predefined inclination.
• the various structural elements constituting the device 1 can be made of any type of material, preferably metallic.
• the telescopic elements are constituted by at least two sections, sections of complementary shapes, the outer section of a first section has dimensions smaller than that of the inner section of a second section, so that said first section slides inside said second section.

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