US2186535A - Pyramid-type hatch tent - Google Patents

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Jan. 9, 1940. T. H} M GEORGE PYRAMID TYPE HATCH TENT Filed Augv 10, L936 77100: as fi/lfac Ge'Orye INL'EXTOR.

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Patented Jan. 9, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PYRAMID- TYPE HATCH TENT Application August 10, 1936, Serial No. 95,113

6 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in pyramid-type hatch tents of that class conventionally employed as temporary coverings for open hatchways of vessels in port when loading operations are not in progress. The present improvements, more particularly, are directed to an advanced form of apical fitting for a hatch cover of this character, having as objects the provision of inexpensive tent-suspending devices which in use act to increase the durability of the tent, strengthen the same, and facilitate the positioning of the cover over the hatch, each of which ends together with further advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the following description and claims.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation, and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a top plan view representing, somewhat diagrammatically, a hatch tent constructed according to the present invention with a portion of the same broken away to obtain a fullline showing of the protected hatch.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 to illustrate the particular improvements in an apical fitting embodied in the present invention; and

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Indicated by the numeral 5 in the drawing is a pyramid-type tent of the character hereinabove referred to which is applied over the hatch 6 leading to the vessels hold during intervals of time when loading operations are temporarily suspended whereby to protect previously loaded cargo against adverse weather conditions. As reinforcing members for this class of tent, rope guys are used which, in conventional practice, are positioned on the ridge lines between the triangular tent sections and medially of each of these sections, these guy lines in general usage lying exteriorly of the fabric which composes the tent to allow the upper ends to be attached to an elevating line for raising the tent. This exterior location of the guy ropes has, by reason of exposure to the weather, required frequent replacement.

According to the present invention I apply the guy ropes interiorly of the tent and to accom modate an attachment of the same to the elevating line provide an opening in the peak of the tent through which interconnection as between posed end of the pintle is an eye-bolt I3 the shank of which extends through and makes swivel connection in a yoke I4, said yoke being attached to the elevating line denoted by l5.

An indicated, the spokes I2 desirably comprise two members extending diametrically of the ring at right angles to one another and received over each of the four separated ring sections are a pair of the eight rope guys, designated by I6, the spokes acting to position the terminally looped portions l6 of the guys against fouling. In forming the tent, the marginal edges of the peak opening are brought upwardly and wound about the shank of the pintle with cord I1, a protective covering being provided which consists in a downwardly flaring sheath l8 of leather or other suitable material having its narrow end fitting the shank of the pintle above the cord-wound tent margins and similarly bound with cord 20.

The invention is believed clear from the foregoing description taken with the drawing. In placing the tent over the hatch, short lengths of rope such as 2| which extend from the tent edges are secured to the deck rings of the vessel, following which the peak of the tent is elevated through the instrumentality of the apical fitting.

It is my intention that no limitations be implied other than as may appear in the course of the defined structure set forth in the appended claims.

What I claim, is:

1. In combination with a hatch tent of the pyramid type described having guys lying interiorly of the fabric and extending radially from the peak of the tent for re-inforcing the same, said tent being formed with .a peak opening, an apical fitting allowing interconnection as between the inner ends of the respective guys and the elevating line by which the peak of the tent is raised, said fitting comprising a swiveled eyebolt adapted to be attached to the elevating line, a vertical pintle extending through the peak opening of the tent and connected at its upper end to the eye-bolt, and guy-attaching means comprising a ring member suspended from the lower end of the pintle to lie in a horizontal plane within the tent, the interconnection as between said pintle and the ring member comprising an eye formed on the lower end of the pintle and diametrically extending spokes integral with the ring member passing through said pintle eye, said spokes lying at right angles to one another to provide separated guy-engaging fellies about the perimeter of the ring member.

2. The combination as defined in claim 1 and means consisting in a downwardly flared protective sheath carried by the exposed portion of the pintle shank to overlie the opening through which the pintle passes.

3. An apical tent fitting for attaching interiorly disposed re-inforcing guy lines in a hatch tent of the pyramid type described to the elevating line by means of which the peak of the tent is raised comprising a pintle adapted to extend through a vertical opening in the peak of the tent, swivel means connected to the upper exposed end of the pintle for attaching the pintle to the elevating line, and a ring member formed with a plurality of separated fellies to which the guy lines are adapted to be attached suspended to lie horizontally within the tent from the lower end of the pintle.

4. An apical tent fitting for attaching interiorly disposed re-inforcing guy lines of a pyramidtype hatch tent to the elevating line by means of which the peak of the tent is raised comprising a pintle adapted to extend through a ver tical opening in the peak of the tent, swivel means connected to the upper exposed end of the pintle for attaching the pintle to the elevating line, and means lying within the tent and suspended from the lower end of the pintle for attaching the guy lines.

5. In an apical tent fitting allowing attachment of interiorly disposed re-inforcing guy lines of a pyramid-type hatch tent to the elevating line by which the peak of the tent is raised, a pintle adapted to extend through a vertical opening in the peak of the tent to allow interconnection between the upper exposed end of the same and the elevating line, and means having hinge connection with the lower end of the pintle and supported thereby within the tent to accommodate attachment of the guy lines.

6. An apical fitting for a pyramid-type hatch tent of the character employing, as a frame-work for the tent, interior reinforcing ropes running to the peak of the tent, the fitting having means disposed within the tent permitting attachment of the upper ends of the ropes thereto and providing a vertical pintle operative to extend through an opening in the peak of the tent for attachment of an elevating line to the exposed end of the pintle.

THOMAS H. MACGEORGE.

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