US2987069A - Collapsible cabana - Google Patents

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M. C. PRESNICK COLLAPSIBLEZ CABANA June 6, 1961 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Feb. 7, 1958 INV ENTOR MICHAEL C .PRESNICK BY A19 ATTORNEY June 6, 1961 M. c. PRESNICK ,0

COLLAPSIBLE CABANA Filed Feb. 7, 1958 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR MICHAEL C. PRESNICK M ATTORNEY June 6, 1961 M. c. PRESNICK 2,987,069

COLLAPSIBLE CABANA Filed Feb. 7, 1958 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 FIG 12 INVENTOR MICHAELCPRESNICK M ATTORNEY United States Patent 2,987,069 'COLLAPSIBLE CABANA Michael C. Presnick, 150-20 71st Ave., Flushing, NY. Filed Feb. 7, 1958, Ser. No. 713,865 6 Claims. (Cl. 135-7.1)

This invention relates to a shelter structure commonly known as a cabana, and more particularly to a collapsible cabana adapted to be compactly dismantled and packaged for transportation and storage and conveniently erected at a desired location.

Permanent cabanas are frequently employed at beach or swimming pool areas, to provide privacy for changing to and from bathing clothing, for storage, for shade, and for siesta purposes, as well as for a myriad of other uses. As a substitute for permanent cabana installations, resort has lately been made to tents and similar structures which may be brought in collapsed form to a convenient site, erected for a days use, and after use, dismantled.

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a portable, collapsible cabana assembly which may be easily and rapidly erected and dismantled, and featuring novel construction which permits the framework for the cabana to serve, in the collapsed position, as a case for conveniently securing the component parts for facile transportation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cabana structure of the type described, in which components of the structure form, in the collapsed position of the said structure, a handle for conveniently carrying the same.

Still a further object of this invention is to provide a collapsible cabana structure susceptible of economical manufacture, which structure, in the erected position, is highly resistant to displacement under the influence of wind and the like.

To attain these objects and such further objects as may appear herein or be hereinafter pointed out, I make reference to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a cabana in accordance with my invention, the cover member being shown in dot and dash lines, to permit illustration of the framework;

FIGURE 2 is a magnified fragmentary section taken on the line 2-2 of FIGURE 1, with extension legs removed;

FIGURE 3 is a magnified fragmentary plan view of my device in the collapsed position;

FIGURE 4 is a magnified section taken on the line 4-4 of FIGURE 3; 7

FIGURE 5 is a magnified section taken on the line 5-5 of FIGURE 2;

FIGURE 6 is a plan view taken on the line 66 of FIGURE 5;

FIGURE 7 is a section taken on the line 77 of FIG- URE 9; a a 7 FIGURE 8 is afragmentary magnified section taken on the line 8-8 of FIGURE 3 FIGURE 9 is a section taken on the line 9-9 of FIG- URE 7;

FIGURE 10 is a perspective view of another embodiment of my invention; r

FIGURE 11 is a magnified section taken on the line 11-11 of FIGURE 10;

FIGURE 12 is a magnified section taken on the line 12-12 of FIGURE 3; and

FIGURE 13 is a fragmentary section taken on the line 13-13 of FIGURE 1.

I will now describe my invention wherein the cabana assembly consists generally of a framework to which a cover member may conveniently be fastened. The framework, which in the accompanying drawing is illustrated as being made of rigid members, tubular in cross-section,

center position (see FIGURE 6). v

sembly is collapsed, the struts 30 fold about their central Patented June 6, 1961 may be constructed of any of a wide variety of shapes and materials, tubular aluminum, as magnesium alloys, being preferred by reason of the combined advantages of lightness of weight and structural rigidity.

The frame of my cabana comprises a pair of top frame members 10 of generally U-shaped configuration, having a central base portion 11 and extending branches 12, the said branches having their ends 13 flattened, as is best shown in FIGURES 3 and 7.

The ends 13 of the branches 12 are pivotally mounted by bolting or riveting to spaced brackets 14, 14 which are upturned from the central support member 15. The support 15 is additionally provided with parallel walls or flanges 16 which serve to rigidify the latter, as well as to form with the said support 15 a downwardly directed channel.

The thus formed top frame is supported upon U-shaped legs members 17, 17, comprising central bases 18 and depending legs 19.

The bases 11 of the top frames are pivotally mounted in parallelism to the bases 18 of the leg member 17 by means of variable friction clamps 20. The clamps 20 (see FIGURE 8) each comprise a pair of generally U- shaped nested brackets 21, 22, of a length to span the branches 11 and 18 of the top and leg frames, respectively, and allow suflicient clearance to permit the interposition between the branches 11, 18, of a bolt 23.

The upper ends 24, 25, of the brackets 21, 21, are bolted or otherwise fixedly secured to the top frame member 11, the lower ends 26, 27 of the said brackets forming sockets pivotally enclosing the bases 18 of the leg members 17.

It will be readily recognized that the freedom with which the bases 18 of the leg members 17 may pivot relative to the base 11 of the top frame members 10 may be controlled by tightening or loosening the adjustment bolts 23.

The parallel top frame and leg bases 11 and 18 are provided at an intermediate point with recesses 28, 29, respectively, which recesses lie, in the erected position of the said cabana, normal to each other (see FIGURE 1), the said recesses 28, 29 being arranged to register (see FIGURE 3) when the leg members 17 are pivoted relative to the top frame members 10.

When the cabana structure is collapsed by pivoting the top frame members 10 toward each other about the brackets 14, the paired recesses 28-28, 29-29, will register, forming an opening entirely through the folded structure, which opening, providing finger clearance, is particularly adapted to be used as a handle for carrying the latter.

The cabana structure, in its erected form, is rigidified by the interposition between each leg 19 and the adjacent top frame branch 12, of a hinged strut 30. The strut 30 is pivotally connected to the frame branches 12 and legs 19 at the points 31 and 32, respectively. The upper leaf 33 of the strut 30 is provided with a stop lug 34, which lug is adapted to coact with a keeper recess 35 on the lower leaf 36, when the strut 30 is manually forced to the past dead As the cabana aspivots 37 (as is shown diagrammatically in an intermediate position in FIGURE 2), the folded struts in the completely collapsed position of said cabana occupying the space between the branches 12 and the legs 19 (see FIG- URE 3 The cabana assembly includes four leg extension members 38, arranged to be joined to the ends 39 of the leg members 19 to provide greater height. The said ends 39 are of smaller diameter than the body of the legs 19 and flare outwardly to define shoulders.

The extension members 38 are of a diameter snugly t0 telescope over the ends 39 of the leg members 19, the shoulders 40 forming a stop for the said extension members.

Convenient storage space for the leg extension members 38 is provided by the channel defined by the walls 16 and central support 15, wherein the four said leg members 38 may be jammed and frictionally maintained during transportation of the collapsed device.

The erected cabana framework with inserted extension members is provided with a Wind and sun shielding cloth cover member C, such as duck (see FIGURE 1) adapted to be received by the said framework and affixed thereto by any of a number of known methods, such as by tyingbands of tape extending from corners and other portions of the said cover through grommet reinforced holes in the framework serving as anchors. The use of zippers at various points on the cover to provide flaps or separable closures is likewise suitably employed.

My cabana may be further increased in utility and modified by providing the top frame members of plywood or a like rigid material, in which case the said rigid top frame members would, with the walls 16 and central support 15 form an enclosed carrying case for convenient transportation of the collapsed cabana.

The embodiment shown in FIGURE makes provision for a peaked gabled storage space above the normal erected cabana. For purposes of this embodiment, the top frame members 10 are provided on their upper peripheral edges with a series of spaced apertures 41. The corners of the said frame members are each pro vided with a transverse socket 42. A rigid, centrally foldable panel 43, of a size adapted to register with the top frame 10, is provided on its undersurface with a series of snap fasteners 44 in position to mate with the apertures 41, when the panel is set atop the frames 10.

The peak structure 45 comprises a central ring 46 forming an apex, and four extending strut members 47 having their free ends 48 arranged to be inserted within the corner sockets 42. The ends 48 of the struts 47 are provided with shoulders 49 forming stops resting against the panel 43.

A peak cover 50, of general pyramidal outline, is provided optionally with zippers or other fastening means 51 on one side, to permit access to the storage space within the attic-like peak 45. The struts 47, outlining the pyramidal peak, may be slipped from their sockets and collapsed for transportation.

By the above described structure, I have provided a. rigid cabana frame assembly susceptible of highly economical production occupying a minimal space when dismantled to be conveniently transported to a rigid structure, either extended to provide head room or with the extension legs removed for low wind resistance, or use as a picnic table if used with the removable panels in position.

The assembly, in the forms shown and described, features ease of assembly and disassembly, coupled with the ability to be compactly stored for transportation, the frame members forming, in the collapsed position of said cabana, a convenient carrying case for transportation.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A collapsible cabana frame for use with a detachable cover comprising a central channel member having a bottom and side flanges, apair of top frame members having their inner marginal edges each pivotally connected to said channel member on opposite side edges of said flanges, leg members swingably supported from the outer marginal edges of said top frame members, separable leg extension members adapted to be joined to the swinging ends of said leg members in the erected position of said cabana, said leg extension members having a combined width, when laid side to side, substantially equal to the width of said bottom flange, and being of a smaller length than the length of said channel member whereby said extension members provide snug wedging fit between the side flanges of said channel.

2. A cabana in accordance with claim 1 wherein said leg members comprising tubular U frames each having a central segment and extending branches, the said branches forming the legs of said cabana and the central segment forming a hingable pintal connecting said segment to said frame members.

3. A cabana in accordance with claim 2 wherein said top frame members are recessed at a medial portion along their outer marginal edge, and said bases of said U frames are recessed at a portion corresponding to said recessed portions of said frame members, the walls defining said recesses registering, in the collapsed position of said cabana, to form a handle for carrying.

4. A cabana in accordance with claim 1 wherein said frame members are pivotally joined to said leg members by frictional hinge means, said hinge means, in the erected position of said cabana, frietionally resisting relative movement of said frame and leg members.

5. A cabana in accordance with claim 4 wherein said hinge means includes threaded clamp means, adjustment of said clamp means serving to vary the frictional resistance to relative motion of said frame and leg members.

6. A framework for a collapsible cabana comprising, in combination, a pair of top frame members pivotally connected at their inner marginal edges, leg members comprising a pair of U-shaped frames having branches extending from a central segment pivotally connected to the outer marginal edges of said top frame members, said top frame members including recessed portions located medially along their outer marginal edges and said segments of said U-shaped frames including recessed portions corresponding to said recessed portions of said frame members, said recessed portions of said U-shaped frames and frame members to register, thereby forming a handle when said cabana frame is folded to the collapsed posit-ion thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 136,456 Petersen et ail. Mar. 4, 1873 1,081,902 Fowzer Dec. 16, 1913 1,792,799 Baxter Feb. 17, 1931 2,070,484 Jones Feb. 9, 1937 2,445,622 Lewk July 20, 1948 2,588,754 Novi Mar. 11, 1952 2,819,776 Balsam Ian. 14, 1958

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