This application is a 371 of international application of PCT application serial no. PCT/CN2021/087112, filed on Apr. 14, 2021, which claims the priority benefit of China application no. 202120719614.0, filed on Apr. 8, 2021. The entirety of each of the above mentioned patent applications is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The invention relates to the technical field of a folding canopy, in particular to a folding canopy with an automatic opening and closing center small-roof structure.
The alias of the folding canopy is an advertising canopy and an awning. It can be used for outdoor exhibitions and product promotion, celebration evenings, exhibitions, tourism, leisure, field work, food stalls. It can also be used for song and dance evenings and other temporary activities, as well as long-term leisure facilities in the park tourist resort scenic area. In a folding canopy, because it needs to be folded and unfolded, the inner center roof is usually designed as a single roof structure, and the roof is a sealed structure, which can not realize the internal air circulation and affects the overall use stability of the folding canopy.
To this end, a double-roof folding canopy roof is disclosed in publication of CN205531639U, which includes a folding lower canopy frame and a lower roof tarpaulin. The lower roof tarpaulin covers the lower roof frame and is fixedly connected with the lower roof frame and the middle opening, the folding upper canopy frame is movably connected to the lower canopy frame, and the upper roof tarpaulin covers the upper canopy frame and is fixedly connected with it. However, when the canopy is unfolded, the folding upper canopy frame with this structure is relatively poor in integral unfolding, and the swinging between the folding upper canopy and the lower canopy frame is prone to occur, which leads to poor supporting effect of the center canopy roof. Meanwhile, the unfolding of this structure and the assembly of components are relatively complicated, resulting in relatively poor overall use effect.
In addition, after the existing folding canopy is folded, its overall volume is relatively large due to the interference of the internal folding canopy, which affects the packaging size. In addition, the center canopy roof of the existing folding canopy with double roofs is usually limited by the structure, which leads to its relatively small overall covering area and can not be adjusted according to the demand. For the existing upper roof tarpaulin, after the upper canopy frame is folded, the upper canopy frame usually continuously expands outward to the upper roof tarpaulin, which causes the upper roof tarpaulin to be in a tension state continuously, and during long-term use, it is prone to cause the upper roof tarpaulin to be over-stretched, and when the folding canopy is opened, the upper roof tarpaulin covering the folding canopy is prone to collapse, affecting the appearance.
At the same time, the opening and closing mode of the existing folding canopy with a double-roof structure usually needs to be performed by multiple people, which causes the overall opening and closing operation to be troublesome and affects the use effect.
The object of the present invention is to provide a folding canopy with an automatic opening and closing center small-roof structure, which is used for solving the above technical problems, and facilitate the realization of the double-roof opening and closing of the folding canopy. At the same time, it can be combined with a center lock to facilitate the opening and closing of the folding canopy, and has the characteristics of simple structure, low manufacturing cost and good universality.
The technical problems solved by the invention can be realized by the following technical schemes.
A folding canopy with an automatic opening and closing center small-roof structure includes a plurality of canopy leg tubes and a folding canopy frame located above the canopy leg tubes. The folding canopy frame comprises a plurality of canopy struts, and one end of each canopy strut is hingedly coupled to a center roof disk. A small-roof upper disk member is provided above the center roof disk, a small-roof lower disk member is provided below the center roof disk, a elevating rod is provided between the small-roof lower disk member and the small-roof upper disk member, and the small-roof lower disk member is movable vertically along with the opening and closing of the folding canopy, so that the small-roof upper disk member is movable vertically by the driving of the elevating rod.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the folding canopy further includes a plurality of linkage rods. One ends of the linkage rods are hingedly coupled to the small-roof lower disk member, the other ends of the linkage rods are hingedly coupled to the canopy struts, and each linkage rod is used in cooperation with a respective one of the canopy struts.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the elevating rod has a single rod structure, and is mounted to cooperate with a center of the small-roof lower disk member, a center of the center roof disk is provided with an elevating hole, and the elevating rod penetrates the elevating hole and is fixedly installed at a center of the small-roof upper disk member.
In one of the preferred embodiments, a slotted hole is provided in a middle portion of the small-roof lower disk member, and a bottom end of the elevating rod is embedded in the slotted hole and fixed by a fastener.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the slotted hole has a blind hole structure.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the folding canopy further includes a center lower disk member. The center lower disk is located below the small-roof lower disk member, and the elevating rod penetrates a first through hole at the center of the small-roof lower disk member and extends downwards, and a bottom end of the elevating rod is capable of being locked with the center lower disk.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the elevating rod is fixedly coupled to the small-roof lower disk member through a fastener, and the small-roof lower disk member is capable of driving the elevating rod to move vertically along with the opening and closing of the folding canopy, such that the small-roof upper disk member is movable vertically by the driving of the elevating rod.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the elevating rod comprises at least two elevating rod units, bottom ends of the elevating rod units are fixedly installed with the small-roof lower disk member, roof ends of the elevating rod units are fixedly installed with the small-roof upper disk member, and the center roof disk is provided with a plurality of elevating holes, and each elevating rod unit penetrates through a respective one of the elevating holes and is disposed in one-to-one correspondence.
In one of the preferred embodiments, a plurality of mounting holes are provided in the small-roof lower disk member, and each mounting hole is configured for cooperatively fitting with a respective one of the elevating rod units.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the folding canopy further includes a center lower disk. The center lower disk is located at a lower part of the small-roof lower disk member, and a center locking rod is fixedly installed on the center roof disk, and penetrates through a second through hole at a center of the small-roof lower disk member and extends downwards, and a bottom end of the center locking rod is capable of being locked with the center lower disk.
In one of the preferred embodiments, a plurality of elevating rod units surround an outer side of the center locking rod, and the small-roof lower disk member slides up and down along the center locking rod during opening and closing with the folding canopy.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the canopy struts are respectively provided with canopy roof corner pieces, and the canopy roof corner pieces are configured for supporting edges of a small roof tarpaulin.
In one of the preferred embodiments, each of the canopy roof corner pieces comprises a first sidewall, a second sidewall and an upper wall, a groove is formed between the first sidewall, the second sidewall and the upper wall, an opening of the groove faces downward, and the groove is configured for being embedded with a canopy strut.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the first sidewall and the second sidewall are triangular structures.
In one of the preferred embodiments, a bottom corner of the first sidewall and a bottom corner of the second sidewall are hingedly coupled to a respective one of the canopy struts.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the canopy roof corner pieces are inclined outward and upward relative to a center of the folding canopy.
Based on any of the above embodiments, preferably, an upper end of the center roof disk is provided with an embedding groove, and the embedding groove is configured for being embedded and installed with the small-roof upper disk member.
Based on the above embodiments, preferably, a locking groove is provided in the small-roof lower disk member, and the locking groove is configured in cooperation with a fastener, and the fastener penetrates through the locking groove and is fixed with the elevating rod.
Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following outstanding advantages and effects. According to the present invention, the opening and closing of the folding canopy is utilized, through optimized design, to drive the canopy struts to move by the small-roof lower disk member and the elevating rod, so that the elevating of the small-roof upper disk member is realized, and the unfolding of the small roof tarpaulin is completed with the canopy roof corner pieces, thereby realizing the automatic opening and closing of the double roofs of the folding canopy. In addition, the optimized structure can be used with the existing center lock structure to achieve reduced manufacturing cost and good universality.
The features of the present invention can be clearly understood by referring to the drawings and the following detailed description of preferred embodiments.
In order to make the technical means, creative features, achievement goals and effects achieved by the present invention easy to understand, the present invention will be further described below in cooperation with specific illustrations.
In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms indicating orientation or positional relations such as “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “roof”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer” are based on the orientation or positional relations shown in the drawings. At the same time, the description of the specific positional relations in the description is only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, a specific orientation structure and operation, and therefore cannot be understood as limiting the present invention. Similarly, similar words such as “a”, “first”, “one” or “the” do not mean any quantity limitation, but mean that there is at least one.
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Specifically, in the folding canopy, each of the canopy leg tubes 2 also include a sliding seat which can move along the canopy leg tubes 2 and a roof seat at a top portion of the canopy leg tubes 2. The adjacent canopy leg tubes 2 are hingedly coupled to each other through folding rods to form a hinge group, and are respectively hingedly coupled to the sliding seats and the roof seats to realize cooperative mounting. In addition, each canopy strut 11 usually includes two or more canopy strut units, preferably two, and the canopy strut units are hingedly coupled to each other. An outer end of each of the canopy struts 11 is hingedly coupled to the roof seat and an inner end of each of the canopy struts 11 is hingedly coupled to the center roof disk 3. Each of the canopy struts 11 can be folded. The canopy strut units at the outer ends are usually coupled to inclined rods, respectively, one end of each inclined rod is hingedly coupled to the canopy strut unit fitted with it, and the other end of each inclined rod is hingedly coupled to the slide seat. Among them, the following-mentioned linkage rods 71 and short struts 12 are installed in cooperation with the canopy strut units hingedly coupled to the center roof disk 3 at the inner side. One end of each of the short struts 12 is hingedly coupled to a respective one of the canopy strut units, and the other end of each of the short struts 12 is hingedly coupled to a center lower disk member 8.
In this preferred embodiment, the disclosed automatic opening and closing center small-roof structure includes a small-roof upper disk member 4, an elevating rod 5 and a small-roof lower disk member 7. The small-roof upper disk member 4 is located above the center roof disk 3, usually at direct upper part, and the small-roof lower disk member 7 is located below the center roof disk 3, usually at direct lower part. An elevating rod 5 is provided between the small-roof lower disk member 7 and the small-roof upper disk member 4, and the small-roof lower disk member 7 is movable vertically along with the opening and closing of the folding canopy, such that the small-roof upper disk member 4 is movable vertically by the driving of the elevating rod 5.
In one of the preferred embodiments, the upper end of the center roof disk 3 is provided with an embedding groove 32, and the embedding groove 32 is used for being embedded and installed with the small-roof upper disk member 4, which can enhance the overall aesthetic appearance.
In a specific embodiment, the canopy includes a plurality of linkage rods 71, and the number of the linkage rods 17 is consistent with that of canopy struts 11, usually four. There may be eight canopy struts in individual folding canopies, for example, in the folding canopy structure disclosed in publication of CN209908072U, the number of linkage rods 71 can be four or eight, which is usually fitted with the canopy struts 11 fitted with the roof seat. One ends of the linkage rods 71 are hingedly coupled to the small-roof lower disk member 7, and the other ends are hingedly coupled to the canopy struts 11, and a single linkage rod 71 is coupled to a single canopy strut 11. Optimizing the structural design can make the folding canopy drive the small-roof lower disk member 7 to move in the opening and closing changing state. Specifically, when the folding canopy moves from the folded state to the unfolded state, each canopy leg tube 2 is separated from each other, so that the sliding seat on the canopy leg tubes 2 moves upwards, driving the canopy struts 11 in the folded state to start to unfold to the straight state. The canopy struts 11 constantly change and unfold outwards with the center roof disk 3 as the center, such that the linkage rods 71 change from the vertical state to the horizontal state, so as to drive the small-roof lower disk member 7 to move from the low position to the high position, and then drive the elevating rod 5 to move upwards, and that the small-roof upper disk member 4 moves from close to the center roof disk 3 to far away from the center roof disk, so that the small-roof upper disk member 4 continuously moves upward until the whole folding canopy is unfolded; otherwise, it is folded.
Based on embodiment 1 and as shown in
Preferably, a locking groove 74 is formed on the small-roof lower disk member 7, and the locking groove 74 is used in cooperation with a fastener 72, and the fastener 72 penetrates through the locking groove 74 to be fixed with the elevating rod 5.
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Based on Embodiment 2, as shown in
Based on embodiment 1 and as shown in
In this embodiment, when the folding canopy is unfolded outward from a folded state, the opening and closing principle of the folding canopy in Embodiment 1 is combined, in which the elevating rod unit 51 is driven to continuously move upward along the elevating holes 31 as the small-roof lower disk member 7 gradually moves from bottom to roof, so that the small-roof upper disk member 4 moves upward.
Based on Embodiment 4, as shown in
In this embodiment, with the unfolding of the folding canopy, the center lower disk member 8 and the small-roof lower disk member 7 move upward from the bottom at the same time, wherein the center lower disk member 8 continuously moves upward and completes the locking matching with the center locking rod 9.
After the small-roof lower disk member 7 continuously moves upward, the small-roof lower disk member 7 moves along the center locking rod 9 and is combined with the elevating holes 31 on the center roof disk 3, so that the elevating rod units 51 move upward and the small-roof upper disk member 4 moves upward.
Based on any of the above embodiments, as shown in
According to the present invention, the opening and closing of the folding canopy is utilized, through optimized design, to drive the canopy struts to move by means of the small-roof lower disk member and the elevating rod, so that the elevating of the small-roof upper disk member is realized, and the unfolding of the small roof tarpaulin is completed with the canopy roof corner pieces, thereby realizing the automatic opening and closing of the double roofs of the folding canopy. In addition, the optimized structure can be used with the existing center lock structure to achieve reduced manufacturing cost and good universality.
It is apparent from the general technical knowledge that the present invention can be implemented by other embodiments without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Therefore, the above-disclosed embodiments are merely illustrative, not exclusive, in all respects. All changes within the scope of the present invention or within the scope equivalent to the present invention are encompassed by the present invention.
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