Foldable camp shelter

Claim 1

A foldable camping shelter, comprising: a rigid-walled container body including an upright rectangular end wall joined about its respective edges to a bottom wall, a pair of transversely spaced side walls and a top wall, each having open outer edges and jointly defining an open container recess together with the end wall; a rigid rectangular container cover pivotally connected to the container body along a transverse axis at the outer edge of the top wall, for completely enclosing the container recess; said cover being pivotally movable relative to the container body between a downward closed position enclosing the container recess and an opened roof position wherein the cover extends upwardly and outwardly from its connection to the top wall; a foldable floor comprising a first rigid panel pivotally mounted along a first transverse edge thereof across the bottom wall within the container recess, said first panel being pivotally connected along a second transverse edge thereof to a first transverse edge of a second rigid panel having a second transverse edge, said foldable floor being movable between a storage position wherein the panels are folded upon one another parallel to the end wall within the container recess and a floor position wherein they are extended coplanar to one another and parallel to the bottom wall; a pair of foldable braces extending between the rigid cover and the second floor panel with one end of each brace being pivotally connected to the cover and the other end of each brace being pivotally connected to the second floor panel to pivotally interconnect the floor and the rigid cover so that when the cover is pivoted from the closed position to the opened roof position the braces are automatically unfolded to an extended condition to support the rigid cover in the opened roof position as the foldable floor is movable between the storage position and the floor position and so that when the cover is pivoted from the open roof position to the closed position the braces are automatically folded to a contracted condition within the container body; locking means for selectively locking the braces in the extended condition; and flexible shelter walls extending between the cover, the side walls and floor panels, the shelter walls being storable entirely within the container recess when the floor is in its storage position and the cover is in its closed position.