Portable hunting blind

Claim 1

A portable hunting blind and shelter including, a housing of flexible sheet material, and a frame disposed interiorly of said housing to distend and support said housing for occupancy, said frame including a plurality of spaced apart, vertically elongated members having lower end portions and upper end portions, a plurality of top members, mutually, inwardly inclined toward a common center and consisting of inner and outer telescopically engaged end sections, means terminally, mutually, pivotally interconnecting the inner end sections of said top members and pivot means interconnecting the outer end sections of said top members with the upper end portions of said vertical members to afford collapsing said frame to a compact state, spring means reacting between said inner and outer telescopically engaged end sections to urge said outer section into engagement with said housing, to hold said housing tautly distended for occupancy, a base for said frame including front and rear peripheral members, a plurality of sockets secured to said peripheral members to respectively receive the respective lower end portions of said vertical frame members, a seat, having a front edge, a plurality of legs elevating said seat above said peripheral members, and means interconnecting the front edge of said seat and said front peripheral member whereby the weight of an occupant of said seat resists movement of the assembled device.