Tent

A tent is a temporary building, which can be easily dismantled and portable. Tents serve the living by nomadic or as accommodation on trips and expeditions. For major events, marquees come as a temporary event halls to use, the circus tent is the traditional venue of a circus. Tents are also used by companies at trade fairs and exhibitions or special sales as a temporary retail space. There is usually a tent from the " tent skin " and a light, internal support structure ( scaffold ).

History

After the wind screen, the tent is perhaps the oldest form of human Schutzbaues against the ravages of nature. As early as the Upper Paleolithic simple, small, easy to transport summer tents and massive winter tents or spacious and robust carcass ( frame tents) are occupied. Of the latter, the cover was taken at best, the scaffold could optionally be used again in the next season. For a tent of patrons village about 40 horse skins were calculated with a total weight of 240 kg as a cover by Dietrich Evers. The houses seem to have been hardly moved in the absence of pack animals and means of transport over long distances. The tents were made of a framework of wooden poles on the cover as animal skins with the fur side were laid out, so that rain water could drain out properly. The edge of the tent was fastened with mounds of sand, earth and stones. Probably cords secured the shelter against the wind.

The tent lost in the Mesolithic important. As the jungles localized light huts were built arisen.

With their different uses tents in many cultures come before but still. Among other things, in the North African and Asiatic nomads and North American Indians who lived partly exclusively in tents. From the Romans tents were used extensively in the military. They are still used as a medical tent, crew accommodation or mobile workshops and location centers, but they are increasingly being replaced by container. Today is the use in camping holiday in the center, next to the commercial use as fixed, event and circus tent.

Technical Development

The tent skin consists nowadays of impregnated fabric sheets or plastic films, as supporting structure are rods of metal, plastic or wood used. Previously, animal skins, leather skins, leaves and the like were used as tent fabric and bamboo, twigs or branches as a supporting structure. In rarer cases, rope constructions are used, which are tensioned between existing objects.

For trekking and camping tents there for years, a trend towards ever lighter tents, which - such as igloo tents - can also easily build.

A special design are pneumatic structures whose skin tent is supported by a positive pressure inside or filled with compressed air hoses.

Tents are increasingly on artificial ground on Unterlegplanen or plates on tent platforms on pontoons and vehicles.

Leisure Tent

Categories

The tents used in the leisure as holiday accommodation can be divided into the following categories (see also List of types of tent ):

Tent trailer while driving

Tent trailer of 3DOG camping

Material

Most are fabric made ​​of nylon or polyester, rarely also heavier cotton fabrics for the outer tent used. With a coating of PU, silicone or PVC tent skin is waterproof. Silicone-coated tents are considered essential tear-resistant, UV-resistant and more durable. The tarps are sewn together or glued and additionally sealed with adhesive tape and seam tape or silicone sealant and sealed. When sewing both cotton and nylon are used. The swelling of cotton with moisture seals the seams from addition.

The water resistance of the tent is expressed in millimeters of water column. From 1500 millimeters of water a tent is considered waterproof according to DIN. The floor has a higher density (up to 10,000 mm ) in order to be waterproof even with a point load.

Expedition tent

An expedition tent is a very stable tent that is used in the expedition mountaineering. It must be so constructed that it can withstand very high wind and snow loads. Geodätenzelte have been found here to be particularly stable. This is to dome tents that use four or six crossed tent poles. The tents are usually constructed so that a double tent poles can be used for stabilization. About The tents usually have UV-opaque window.

Traditional tents

Traditional tents are in many regions in different versions and for various purposes in use. Known traditional tents are the Central Asian / Mongolian yurts, the black tent of the nomads or the Moroccan Caidal tents.

Commercial Applications

  • Medical tent (military, civil protection )
  • Marquee
  • Circus Tent
  • Party Tent
  • Racing tent
  • Mess tent

Known manufacturers

Flooring Pontoon (boat) Aluminium Kohte Shelter-half Covered wagon
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