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WO2011151353A1
WO2011151353A1 PCT/EP2011/058998 EP2011058998W WO2011151353A1 WO 2011151353 A1 WO2011151353 A1 WO 2011151353A1 EP 2011058998 W EP2011058998 W EP 2011058998W WO 2011151353 A1 WO2011151353 A1 WO 2011151353A1
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Jonathan Garland
Terri O'kane
Houston Reid
Stephen Caldwell
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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
    • 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
    • E04H15/54—Covers of tents or canopies

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  • This invention relates to a tent of the type comprising a support structure covered by sheet material, which tent is usually secured to soft ground by tent pegs.
  • tents there are various different types of such tents currently available on the market.
  • the various different types of tent are provided as tents are used in many different circumstances.
  • tents may be used by an entire family for a relatively long period of time.
  • Such a tent would likely comprise a number of partitioned off sleeping areas and an internal living area.
  • a tent were only to be used for one or two nights by a couple of people, then it is likely that a smaller, simpler type of tent would be used.
  • larger and more elaborate tents may be used in order to provide more comfort to the inhabitants, or, smaller, simpler tents may be used for ease-of-use when comfort is not such a concern.
  • the price point of tent has decreased over the past decade or 2 to a point where the cost of buying a tent is now very affordable to the majority of people.
  • the cost of a small, simple two-man tent which is somewhat of the order of £25
  • the cost of a ticket per person to attend one of these open-air music and cultural festivals which can be of the order of over £100 for the full length of the festival period;
  • the cost of the tents have become irrelevant in comparison to the total overall cost of attending the festival itself. Indeed, if one were to add up the total expenses for an individual to attend a festival over a three-day period, it is unlikely that the tent would account for anything more than 10% of the total cost to the festival goer.
  • the present invention is directed towards a temporary-use tent comprising a framework of knockdown construction supporting a weather-proof fabric, the weatherproof fabric having an inwardly facing side and an outwardly facing side, the outwardly facing side having a weather-proof coating applied thereon, wherein, the weatherproof fabric and the framework are both fabricated entirely from a biodegradable material.
  • the advantage of using a temporary-use tent which is fabricated entirely from a biodegradable material is that the temporary-use tent may be left standing on the campsite at the end of a festival and allowed to biodegrade naturally over the subsequent 6-9 months. Clearly this is an advantage to the festival goer as they do not need to take down their tent and carry it home.
  • the festival organisers can benefit from allowing the biodegradable temporary-used tents to stand in place as they do not need to organise a security and surveillance operation to ensure festival goers are bringing home their tents.
  • the advantage of providing the weather-proof coating on the outwardly facing side of the temporary-use tent is that the weather will not accelerate the biodegradation of the temporary-use tent during an initial usage period.
  • the initial usage period will typically be of the order of 2 to 3 days, but may be longer.
  • the temporary-use tent will not begin to biodegrade until a bulldozer or other such mechanical crushing device breaks up the temporary-use tent so that the inwardly facing side of the temporary-use tent and the framework of the temporary-use tent become exposed to the weather, and consequently begin to biodegrade.
  • festival organisers encourage festival goers to bring home their tents.
  • the present invention is directed to a completely counter-intuitive approach whereby festival goers are encouraged to abandon their tents. This is in complete contrast to the approach taken to date to deal with the problem of festival goers abandoning their tents in festival campsites.
  • the weather-proof fabric is fabricated from a jute tarpaulin. This is seen to be particularly advantageous as jute is in high abundance and has appropriate properties to allow a weather-proof fabric to be fabricated from it. In particular, jute can be allowed to be absorbed into the hinterland, nourishing the hinterland itself.
  • the framework comprises potato starch.
  • the framework comprises corn starch.
  • Such materials as potato starch and cornstarch have already proven to be of sufficient strength to allow a framework to be fabricated which supports a weather-proof fabric.
  • the framework comprises a plurality of tent poles fabricated from potato starch.
  • the framework comprises nine tent poles and a plurality of pole connectors; whereby, three tent poles are connected, using some of the plurality of pole connectors, to form a first substantially triangular frame; three further tent poles are connected, using some of the plurality of pole connectors, to form a second substantially triangular frame; and, three further tent poles are used to connect the first substantially triangular frame with the second substantially triangular frame to form a substantially triangular prism.
  • the weather-proof fabric comprises a zip to allow a closable entranceway to be formed in the weather-proof fabric.
  • a pair of zips may be provided on the temporary-use tent to allow a large entranceway to be formed in the weather-proof of fabric.
  • the zips may comprise loopholes to allow a padlock to secure the zip in its closed position to secure the interior of the temporary-use tent.
  • the zip is fabricated from potato starch.
  • the zip may be fabricated from cornstarch or other such biodegradable, solid materials.
  • a biodegradable plastics has recently become available on the market.
  • the tent poles and the pole connectors used in the framework of the temporary-use tent could also be fabricated from a biodegradable plastics.
  • the weather-proof coating comprises bees wax. In a further embodiment, the weather-proof coating comprises sugar cane pulp. This is advantageous as to whether-proof coating is made of a biodegradable material. In one embodiment, it is envisaged that the coating may not be 100% biodegradable as the coating will only account for an insignificant amount of the temporary-use tent and therefore will not affect the overall biodegradable nature of the temporary-use tent. In such a case, it is envisaged that the non-biodegradable weather-proof coating would be non-toxic.
  • the weather-proof coating comprises a fire retardant composition. This is advantageous, as in order to meet stringent safety requirements, a flame retardant coating and/or for a fire retardant coating must be on the temporary- use tent.
  • the temporary-use tent is coated with a fire retardant coating.
  • the fire retardant coating comprises urea, phosphate, sulphite and bromide. This type of aqueous solution comprising urea, phosphate, sulphite and bromide has been found to be particularly effective in acting as a fire retardant.
  • the temporary-use tent comprises tent pegs which are fabricated from potato starch.
  • the temporary-use tent is compostable. This is advantageous as the temporary-use tent would not only be biodegradable, but would be compostable in the sense that the tent would nourish the hinterland into which it has been left to degrade into.
  • the present invention is directed to a tent of the small, simple type hereinbefore described manufactured from a biodegradable material, which biodegradable material is so chosen as not to be immediately biodegradable.
  • the covering of the tent is made from jute.
  • Jute is an extremely environmentally friendly material.
  • the outer surface of the tent is treated with a waterproof liquid. Ideally it is also treated with a fire prevention material. None of these cause any great difficulty because suitable biodegradable waterproofing and fireproofing materials are available and their amount compared to that of the other materials making up the tent is miniscule.
  • the framework of the material will be manufactured from a suitable biodegradable material such as potato starch which can also be used to manufacture the tent pegs. Indeed such pegs are already manufactured and sold under the Trade Mark Greenstake.
  • Figure 1 is a side perspective view of a temporary-use tent according to the present invention
  • Figure 2 is a side view of the temporary-use tent of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 3 is a top plan view of the temporary-use tent of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 4 is a front perspective view of the temporary-use tent of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 5 is a plan view of a weather-proof fabric used in the temporary-use tent of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 6 is a perspective view of a framework of knockdown construction used in the temporary-use tent of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 7 is a perspective view of a pole connector used in the framework of Figure 6;
  • Figure 8 is a perspective view of a further pole connector used in the framework of Figure 6;
  • Figure 9 is a perspective view of another pole connector used in the framework of Figure 6; and, Figure 10 perspective view of a tent pole used in the framework of Figure 6.
  • the temporary-use tent 100 comprising a framework having a weather-proof fabric 102 draped thereover.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 comprises a double sided zip fastener 104, 106.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 is a jute tarpaulin which is biodegradable. It will be understood that alternative biodegradable materials could be used in the stead of the jute tarpaulin. For example, biodegradable plastics have recently been developed which could be used.
  • the weather-proof fabric of 102 comprises an inwardly facing side which faces towards the interior of the temporary-use tent 100, and, and outwardly facing side which faces away from the temporary-use tent 100.
  • the outwardly facing side is viewable in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive.
  • the outwardly facing side is coated with a weather-proof coating.
  • the weather-proof coating is advantageously a water-proof coating.
  • the weather-proof coating also comprises a fire retardant coating.
  • the double sided zip fastener 104, 106 is manufactured from a biodegradable and composting material, namely potato starch and/or cornstarch. It will be understood that is any biodegradable, solid material could be used to manufacture the double sided zip fastener 104, 106.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 is shown laid out as a piece of canvas 500.
  • the canvas 500 comprises three substantially rectangular shaped cloth pieces 502, 504, 506 which form the floor 504 of the temporary-use tent, and the two sidewalls 502, 506 of the temporary use tent, and, a pair substantially triangular shaped cloth pieces 508, 510 which form end walls of the temporary-use tent.
  • Double sided zip fasteners 104, 106, 512, 514 are provided along the sides to allow the weather-proof fabric 102 to be formed into a substantially triangular prism.
  • the double sided zip fasteners 104, 106 also act to form a closable entranceway into the temporary-use tent.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 could alternatively be sown or sealed together using an adhesive into the substantially triangular prism such that the framework of the temporary-use tent is erected within the weather-proof fabric 102, thus forming the temporary-use tent.
  • the temporary-use tent 100 in Figures 1 to 5 thus comprises a floor 504, a pair of sidewalls 502, 506 and a pair of end walls 508, 510.
  • the framework 600 is of a knockdown construction type comprising a first substantially triangular frame comprising three tent poles 602a, 602b, 602c. Three further tent poles 604a, 604b, 604c are connected to form a second substantially triangular frame. Three bracing tent poles 606a, 606b, 606c are used to connect the first substantially triangular frame with the second substantially triangular frame to form a substantially triangular prism.
  • Pole connectors 608a, 608b, 610a, 610b, 612a, 612b connect the tent poles 602a, 602b, 602c, 604a, 604b, 604c, 606a, 606b, 606c to form the substantially triangular prism shaped framework 600.
  • Figure 7 illustrates top pole connectors 612a, 612b having a plurality of pole receiving holes 702, 704 to receive some of the tent poles of the framework 600.
  • Figure 8 illustrates corner pole connectors 610a, 610b having a plurality of pole receiving holes 802, 804, 806 to receive some of the tent poles of the framework 600.
  • Figure 9 illustrates further corner pole connectors 608a, 608b having a plurality of pole receiving holes 902, 904, 906 to receive some of the tent poles of the framework 600.
  • FIG 10 illustrates a tent pole 1000.
  • the tent pole 1000 may be, as in the embodiment shown in the appended Figures, either 2 metres or 1 metre in length.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 is manufactured from jute which has been treated with a suitable water proofing and fireproofing spray which are themselves biodegradable though obviously less so than an easily biodegradable material. In any case the amount of material forming the waterproofing and fireproofing materials is insignificant in comparison to the other materials used and it can effectively be ignored.
  • the framework 600 and tent pegs are manufactured from a suitable potato starch material.
  • the weather-proof fabric 102 when in situ, is not biodegrade over a reasonable period of use, such as a month, but when once disassembled and placed on the ground it quickly biodegrades as its surfaces, other than those protected by the waterproof spray are attacked by the elements and in general the temporary-use tent 100 biodegrades over about six months.
  • a further advantage in the use of the particular biodegradable materials namely jute and corn starch and potato starch is that they act as soil enrichment.
  • Jute has some very important attributes which makes it ideally suitable for use with the present invention. It is 100% biodegradable and it deteriorates organically and replaces valuable nutrients in the soil. Everything should be done to encourage its use since it is a fast-growing crop with very high carbon dioxide absorption and does not produce any toxic or harmful gases and indeed is a very durable material.
  • biodegradable materials may be used once they are sufficiently protected from immediate attack by the elements. Also it is appreciated that depending on the particular country and its environmental conditions where the tent is being used, different levels protection may be required.
  • the temporary-use tents 100 will be disposable they are ideally suited for promotional materials to be incorporated in the weather-proof fabric 102.
  • the tent poles 1000 may be preferably reinforced with wheat straw, or similar such naturally occurring and biodegrading and/or composting material.
  • biodegradable including any grammatical variations thereof, should be interpreted as not being immediately biodegradable, but rather biodegradable over a period of time such as 6 months in accordance with the European Standard on Biodegradability, EN 14046, or, the US Biodegradability Standard, ASTM D6400.

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Abstract

La présente invention porte sur une tente à utilisation temporaire (100), laquelle tente comprend une structure (600) de construction démontable supportant un tissu étanche à l'eau (102), le tissu étanche à l'eau ayant un côté dirigé vers l'intérieur et un côté dirigé vers l'extérieur, le côté dirigé vers l'extérieur ayant un revêtement étanche à l'eau appliqué sur celui-ci, le tissu étanche à l'eau et la structure étant tous deux fabriqués entièrement en un matériau biodégradable. L'avantage de l'utilisation d'une tente à utilisation temporaire qui est fabriquée et constituée par un matériau biodégradable est que la tente à utilisation temporaire peut être laissée dressée sur le terrain de camping à la fin d'un festival et être laissée se biodégrader naturellement au cours des six à neuf mois suivants. Ceci est un avantage évident pour le participant à un festival, car il n'a pas besoin de prendre sa propre tente et de la rapporter à la maison. Deuxièmement, les organisateurs de festivals peuvent bénéficier du fait de permettre aux tentes à utilisation temporaire biodégradables de rester sur place, car ils n'ont pas besoin d'organiser une opération de sécurité et de surveillance pour s'assurer que les participants de festivals rapportent leurs tentes à la maison.
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FR3022282A1 (fr) * 2014-06-13 2015-12-18 Andre Gabes Cadenas biodegradable a usage unique
GB2539719A (en) * 2015-06-26 2016-12-28 Comp-A-Tent Ltd Biodegradable structure, support member and sheet

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US4064662A (en) * 1976-09-29 1977-12-27 Toole John M O Collapsible tetrahedral structure
WO2001020090A1 (fr) * 1999-09-16 2001-03-22 John Eric Cock Structure pliante
DE102006026122A1 (de) * 2006-06-03 2007-12-06 Weischede, Herrmann Und Partner Gmbh Gewölbetragsystem
NL1035186C1 (nl) * 2008-03-18 2008-06-30 Mahasti Tafahomi Een ruimtelijk object te gebruiken als shelter/noodwoning met een geheel of gedeeltelijke schil van photovoltaisch zonnecellen, als bovenlaag van een samengestelde huid, bevestigd door middel van klemming of andere middelen aan buizen, al dan niet voorzien van electrisch, ventilatie, water aansluitpunten die die door al dan niet klemmende koppelstukken aan elkaar verbonden zijn en de werkwijze.

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FR3022282A1 (fr) * 2014-06-13 2015-12-18 Andre Gabes Cadenas biodegradable a usage unique
GB2539719A (en) * 2015-06-26 2016-12-28 Comp-A-Tent Ltd Biodegradable structure, support member and sheet
GB2539719B (en) * 2015-06-26 2021-02-17 Comp A Tent Ltd Biodegradable structure, support member and sheet

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