Patent Application
20180200639
The present invention relates to the field of a kid's play equipment, in particular to a modular transformable tent house that can be installed or uninstalled quickly and may change its shape conveniently for a specific use as required.
The growing process of kids includes different stages from crawling to walking. In general, the kids' moving speed and height are increased, and kids are very curious to their surroundings. However, the balance system of the kids is still not fully developed, so that the kids may fall or get injured easily while playing. In addition, such period is a period for a rapid growth of the body sensory integration of the kids, and such period is very important to infants and kids. Therefore, it is an important subject for related designers and manufacturers to provide a safe playing environment, allow the kids to grow while playing, and prevent dangers or accidents caused by falling or leaving the sight within a playing area.
At present, various playing equipments such as playing tents or ball pools are available in the market, and these equipments generally pop up a fabric frame structure having a bottom and a sealed periphery by using highly elastic fine wire and fabric, and a cloth cushion is set to the bottom to form a closed area to serve as a playing area, so that parents can put their kids in the playing equipment (tent or ball pool) safely. In the meantime, toys or balls may be put into the playing equipment and provided for the kids to play therein. By using the highly elastic fine wire as a support, the playing equipment can be folded into a smaller structure for a convenient storage, when the playing equipment is not in use. However, each fabric piece of the playing equipment with the aforementioned design is connected by sewing, so that most applications just provide a single function only. For example, the playing tent just serves as a playing tent, and the ball pool just serves as a ball pool, and they are not multifunctional playing equipments. Further, there is a specific order of folding the playing equipment for storage due to the limitation of the sewing direction. Obviously, the operation of such equipment is very inconvenient.
Therefore, the inventor of the present invention designed a modular transformable tent house with the design of combining a highly elastic material with a base and a ceiling made of a soft fabric, so that the base and ceiling can be spread open quickly for assembling or bent and folded for a convenient storage, and the tent house may change its shape according to different combining positions to provide different entertainment effects.
In view of the aforementioned drawbacks of the prior art, it is a primary objective of the present invention to provide a modular transformable tent house having a pair of accommodation bags disposed around the periphery of a base and provided for inserting a ceiling, and both of the base and the ceiling come with a convenient foldable design to improve the functionality, the convenience of use, and the operation of the tent house. In addition, the present invention further provides a pair of first support rods and a pair of second support rods applied to the base and the ceiling to improve the stability of use.
To achieve the aforementioned and other objectives, the present invention provides a modular transformable tent house comprising: a base, being a rectangular structure formed by a pair of first elastic walls, a pair of accommodation bags, a base fabric and an elastic floor, and the pair of first elastic walls and the pair of accommodation bags being respectively and symmetrically disposed on four sides of the base fabric to define a sealing, and the elastic floor having an edge movably coupled to an edge of one of the first elastic walls primate to the base fabric, and the pair of accommodation bags having an upwardly facing pocket; and a ceiling, being a roof structure formed by a pair of second elastic walls and a top cover cloth, and the pair of second elastic walls being disposed at two opposite edges of the top cover cloth respectively, such that the ceiling has an n-shaped side view, and the at least one second elastic wall being inserted into one of the accommodation bags for assembling and use, so as to form a third support structure the base in order to support the base to be erected vertically.
In a preferred embodiment, the two first elastic walls, the pair of second elastic walls and the elastic floor are made of winding an elastic flexible body around the periphery of a fabric surface, and the elastic flexible body is one selected from the group consisting of a high manganese wire and a plastic strip. By bending and folding the elastic flexible body, the volume can be reduced for storage, and the elastic flexible body may resume its elasticity to spread open for use again, and the operation is very convenient.
In another preferred embodiment, the modular transformable tent house the present invention further comprises a pair of first support rods installed between the pair of first elastic walls and disposed at an edge of the pocket of the pair of accommodation bags separately. The pair of first support rods are made of a fiberglass tube, and a first fabric sheath is disposed at an edge of the pocket of each accommodation bag and configured to be corresponsive to the pair of first support rods, and provided for passing and installing the pair of first support rods into the pair of the first fabric sheaths respectively, so that the first support rods will be detached during use and will provide an appropriate supporting force to erect the pair of first elastic walls vertically.
To provide a way of combining the tent house in different shapes, the modular transformable tent house of the present invention further comprises a plurality of second support rods disposed between the pair of second elastic walls, and the second support rods are made of a fiberglass tube, and a pair of second fabric sheaths are installed between the pair of second elastic walls and configured to be corresponsive to the pair of second support rods for passing and installing the pair of second support rods into the pair of second fabric sheaths respectively to support the elastic walls. In addition, an opening is formed between each fabric sheath and the ceiling edge, and a hollow window is formed at the at least one opening to serve as a view window which is not just provided for the use by kids, but also provided for parents to observe their kids.
The elastic floor of the present invention has a support block disposed at an edge of the elastic floor which is corresponsive to the other first elastic wall adjacent to the base fabric, and provided for fixing the elastic floor into a position, and a fastening strap is installed at an edge of the pair of first elastic walls corresponsive to the at least one second elastic wall, and provided for fastening the ceiling into a position.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of this disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings.
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The ceiling 12 is a roof structure formed by a pair of second elastic walls 121 and a top cover cloth 122, and the pair of second elastic walls 121 are disposed on two opposite edges of the top cover cloth 122 respectively, so that the ceiling 12 has an n-shaped side view. In addition, the pair of second elastic walls 121 are also made by winding an elastic flexible body around the periphery of a fabric surface, and the elastic flexible body is also a high manganese wire or a plastic strip.
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While the invention has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
