Personal changing tent

Abstract

A collapsible personal changing tent for privacy when changing clothes, adapted to be collapsed in to form that is convenient for travel so that a party going to the beach or inland watering place, or to any place where it is desirable to change clothing in open. Embodiment is of flexible material of textile and collapsible cubicle, cylindrical in shape, with an open bottom and partial enclosure at the top. The top section has opening for the neck with elastic and is opened / closed by means of a zipper secured by Velcro. Horizontal spring loops hold the cylinder open, one is located near the top and one near the bottom. The enclosure rests upon the shoulders of user when the neck section is fastened and easily collapsed to the small size when not in use.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention related in general to collapsible cubicle device provided complete privacy for changing clothes that may expand and collapse. This invention lies in the field of portable enclosures for changing clothes and directed to such device witch may be open and closed in seconds for storage and transportation. It is more particularly directed to portable changing tent which may be open / closed very quickly with no need for special skills or manual dexterity and witch is sufficiently rigid for general use at the beaches, swimming pools, small watercrafts, water parks; by fishermen; by models on outdoors photographic sessions; at campsites, recreational sport events and other public places where it is desirable to change the clothes in open. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Finding a place for privacy in order for one to change clothes, especially for one participating in outdoor sports, swimming areas or water parks, is common for the peopl...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] The present invention provides a portable, suspension type tent which can be very easily collapsed to the very small size for transportation. Broadly described, the tent of the invention comprises a generally cylindrical side wall panel of flexible material of textile, with an open bottom and a partial enclosure at the top. The top section has an opening for the neck, and is opened / closed by means of a zipper, affording admission of a person. Horizontal spring loops hold the cylinder open; one located near the top and one near the bottom.

[0008] The enclosure shield effectively secluding the figure of the person from view. The ready portability ease of erection, and privacy afforded by devices of the present invention render them particularly useful at the beaches, athletic fields, and wherever other facilities are not readily available to hide one from public view during a change of clothing.

[0009] Another object of the present invention is the provision of a device of the character described with is simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture, but which is also durable, sturdy and well adapted for withstanding the rough usage to which device of this type are subjected. BRIEF SUMMERY OF THE DISLOSED EMBODIMENT

[0013] the loop members substantially supporting the fabric in particular areas to provide for loops portions of the fabric maintained to assume a particular configuration in accordance with the loop members, and the portion of the fabric being foldable on top of each other about the hinge portion to have the top members collapse to the collapsible position by twisting and folding to form a plurality of concentric loop rings and layers of fabric to substantially reduce the size of the enclosure in the collapsed state.

[0014] From foregoing general description of the invention achieves, as a major and important objective, the provision of portable quickly collapsed, highly useful tent can be compactly stored when not in use.

[0015] An additional objective of the invention is to provide a “wearable” tent which can be manufactured very inexpensively, and which can be transported easily, and used in any location without attaching to any supporting structures except a body of the user.

Problems solved by technology

Open car doors only provide cover to one side of the body; towels often fall off bodies trying to change.

Many types of portable enclosures are presently invented ranging from conventional tents boxlike or cylindrical structures made up of a plurality of rigid plate members witch must be secured together with many fastening devices which require much skills, time and dexterity in assembly, they are impractical due to they large size, weight, hardware components necessary to assemble into self supporting enclosure as a cylindrical dressing room, supported by three vertical stakes U.S. Pat. No. 1,803,626 “Collapsible portable dressing room” by Lasley; or cylindrical tent supported from a round frame hoisted upon an overhanging member U.S. Pat. No. 3,498,305 “Tent” by Hulin; or an enclosure supported by telescopically extendible post U.S. Pat. No. 5,430,980 “Collapsible cubicle” by Walter Ferrier; or dressing room supported by angular stakes U.S. Pat. No. 1,925,467 by Sinning, making them inconvenient, unsuitable and impractical in use.

Even a simple tent structure calls for the securing of many loose parts and some is very difficult to set up without the serviced of two or more persons.

In addition, when these various structures are dismantled, they are heavy and cumbersome to carry or to store.

However is no known any other cubicle self-opening a portable / expendable device can provide complete privacy for changing clothes not attached to any supporting structure, lightweight, folds to very small size for transportation, open / closed in seconds, inexpensive to manufacture, simple in use.

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