Gary H Schaefer

US Patent:

62731149, Aug 14, 2001

Filed:

Sep 1, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/388177

Inventors:

Gary Schaefer - Belgrade MT

International Classification:

E04H 1536

US Classification:

135128

Abstract:

A modular tent system that supports a number of detachable, weatherproof, self-supporting living quarter or storage pods. In a wall tent configuration, a primary tent is supported from a tubular framework. Each pod mounts to a covered access port of the primary tent. Each pod includes a separate support framework, side walls, floor and roof. Fasteners bordering the peripheral edges of the pod door flap and access port flap interconnect and secure the pod to the walls of the primary tent. Separate fasteners at the pod door flap and access port flap independently control access to the living space of the primary tent.

US Patent:

55843115, Dec 17, 1996

Filed:

Sep 25, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/495214

Inventors:

Gary Schaefer - Belgrade MT

International Classification:

F16C 1100
E04H 1532

US Classification:

135128

Abstract:

An internal, self-supporting, tent suppot framework. The collapsible framework includes a number of side and ridge support poles which mount to radially adjustable pole couplers. The couplers retain the support poles at preferred angular orientations in multiple wall planes as a support skeleton for an overlying fabric cover. Each coupler includes a pair of cast sleeves wherein a body piece includes a longitudinal bore, a projecting wing arm and a pair of hinge arms having transverse bores. A horizontal pole couples the hinge arms together in one plane, as a pair of other poles are supported to the longitudinal bores in a second plane at a splay angle established by the wing arms. The wing arms overlap and are retained with a fastener fitted between the arms.

US Patent:

20150252586, Sep 10, 2015

Filed:

Mar 5, 2014

Appl. No.:

13/999505

Inventors:

Gary Schaefer - Belgrade MT, US

International Classification:

E04H 15/34

Abstract:

A collapsible, modularly constructed, self-supporting tent support framework. The framework includes a number of support poles that interconnect at hinge, clevis/saddle and T/collar couplers. The couplers retain the pole sections at preferred angular orientations in multiple planes to support an overlying fabric cove. Each hinged coupler includes a pair of hinge pieces having a tubular sleeve body, an end collar that interleaves with the other hinge piece at a transecting pivot pole and a serrated, arcuately projecting wing arm having transverse bores that overlap and fasten together to define a desired splay angle. Each clevis/saddle coupler includes a tubular sleeve body and a depending clevis or saddle to pivotally secure a pole section. Each T/collar coupler includes a tubular sleeve body and end collars to pivotally mount to a transecting pole section. The pole pieces couple to the sleeve bodies, collared ends, and clevis/saddles of the framework couplers.