US 12,285,098 B2
Collapsible support frame for a hammock
Max Kitzberger, Neufelden (AT)
Appl. No. 18/023,591
Filed by Max Kitzberger, Neufelden (AT)
PCT Filed Aug. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/AT2021/060296
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 27, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/047512, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 50171/2020 (AT), filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0301419 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. A45F 3/24 (2006.01)
CPC A45F 3/24 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A collapsible support frame for a hammock, said support frame comprising:
a frame body formed from a longitudinal member having two opposite ends; and
three struts provided at each of the two ends of the longitudinal member;
two of said struts serving as foot struts and a third strut serving as a supporting arm with an attachment point for the hammock;
wherein the three struts at the two ends of the longitudinal member are connected to each other by tension structures engaging strut ends of each of the struts, and the foot struts at the opposite ends of the longitudinal member are connected to one another by tension structures engaging the strut ends thereof;
wherein the struts are supported to be folded out from an idle position, in which the struts are folded in against the longitudinal member, into a working position in which the struts are splayed out from the longitudinal member; and
wherein the respective attachment point for the hammock on each of the two supporting arms is on one arm of a respective double-armed pivot lever, with the tension structures for the two foot struts engaging the other arm of said double-armed pivot lever;
said double-armed pivot lever being supported on the associated supporting arm for pivoting movement about a transverse axis, wherein, during said pivoting movement, the attachment point on the one arm of the double-armed pivot lever moves toward or away from the other of the support arms.