JPH11210267A - Blind for bird-watching - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To watch birds while taking care of the environment by covering the outside face of skeleton members with a fibrous tent and providing a main observation window on the front face and a sub-observation window at the other face and further providing openable windows in these windows. SOLUTION: A tent 13 is. spread by pulling a string 14 provided at the top frame 11 and retained in the spread condition by actuating an engaging never 15. Two oblong main observation windows of a lower observation window 16 and an upper observation window 17, positioned at the front face of the tent 13 and horizontally extended and totally three sub-observation windows 19 are formed at other faces except the front face. Birds and beasts are observed through the upper observation window 17 and the lower observation window 16. The sub-observation windows 19 formed at the side faces and the rear face are used for grasping the necessary environmental conditions. Covers of windows and a door which are not used, are kept close to reduce the number of observation windows opened at the same time and prevent excessive brightness in the inside. In this way, cautiousness of birds or beasts is lowered to observe natural conditions or take a picture.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a birds-eye blind used in a lake or a forest for observing birds and animals in order to hide the observer from the eyes of the birds and animals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Birds-and-eye blinds are used in observing places to hide observers from the eyes of birds and animals for the purpose of observing or photographing them without affecting the natural activities of the birds and animals to be observed. Installed and used. Therefore, bird-watching blinds are required to be able to be carried at the observation site, installed at the observation site, or removed quickly and easily. Conventionally, a bird's-eye blind prepared to achieve such an object is obtained by converting or modifying a simple tent for lodging as shown in FIG. A cover B is used, and an observation window C is opened on the cover B. That is, an observation window is set facing the observation target, and the observation window is inserted into the observation window and directly observed with the naked eye or a telescope, or photographing is performed using the camera D.

[0003]

However, since the tent for accommodation is of the type that is firmly fixed on the ground, it is not easy to install and remove the bird blind using the tent. Further, since there is only one observation window for observing birds and beasts, it is not possible to grasp the surrounding situation, and it is sometimes difficult to understand the behavior of the birds and beasts to be observed. In order to improve this point, the inventor provided observation windows in addition to the front observation window and side and rear side observation windows, and observed the observation window. However, there was a problem that the behavior of the observer could be detected from the bird and beast side.

[0004]

The above object is achieved by covering the outer surface of a foldable aggregate with a textile curtain cloth, and having a main observation window and the remaining surface in front of the curtain cloth. The problem is solved by providing a crab sub-observation window and providing an opening / closing lid in at least one of the two observation windows. Further, it is preferable that the opening / closing lid is provided with a locking means for locking at the open position. Further, it is preferable that the curtain cloth is provided with a door that can be freely opened and closed on a side surface without a main observation window.

[0005]

[Function] [Claim 1] In addition to the main observation, the curtain has a sub-observation window from which the observer's surroundings can be observed together. In addition, each observation window is provided with an opening / closing lid, and by closing the lid, the amount of light entering the birds-eye blind is adjusted. [Claim 2] Further, the opening / closing lid can be kept at the open position by the locking means. [Claim 3] Further, it is possible to enter and exit in a direction opposite to the observation target.

[0006]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. In FIGS. 1 to 3, reference numeral 10 denotes a bird's-eye blind used for observing birds and animals. A bird's-eye blind 10 is generally pivotally supported by a top frame 11 at the upper end, similar to a bone member of an infant mosquito net.
The umbrella bone 12 is supported by a supporting bone 12a, and the umbrella bone 12 is elastically held with a rigid metal at an open position, and a cloth cloth 13 is covered on the outer surface. In order to install the bird's-eye blind 10, the drawstring 14 provided on the top frame 11 is pulled and spread, and the locking lever 15 is operated to hold the blind state. The folding operation is performed in the opposite way.
To release the lock and fold as shown in FIG. 4 (b). The central part of the umbrella bone 12 is bent upward like a folding umbrella. In the state in which the birds-in-a-vis blind 10 is expanded, the planar shape is a substantially square with a side of 1.2 m, and the side shape is a quadrangular pyramid in which the lower portion is vertical and the upper portion expands outward like a mosquito net for children, A height of 1.5 m is obtained.

A brown camouflage color is used for the curtain cloth 13,
Two elongated main observation windows, a lower observation window 16 and an upper observation window 17, which are located on the front surface and extend in the horizontal direction, are formed. The vertical dimensions of the main observation windows 16 and 17 are set to about 150 mm so that at least the telephoto lens can be exposed. An opening / closing lid 20 is provided on the outer surface of the upper edge of each of the observation windows 16 and 17.
Are attached by means such as suturing or bonding. The opening / closing lid 20 is made about 2 cm larger than the opening edge of each of the observation windows 16 and 17, and a piece 21 of a magic fastener as a locking means is attached to the front and back especially at the lower edge.
In addition, the other piece 22 of the magic fastener is attached to each observation window 16, 1.
7 is provided at a lower edge portion and an upper portion slightly away from the upper edge portion. Therefore, the observation window can be held in the closed position by engaging the opening / closing lid 20 with the other piece 22 on the lower side of the magic fastener. Can be held in the open position indicated by.

[0008] On the surface other than the front surface of the curtain 13, a total of three of the two are arranged in the horizontal direction and one is arranged on the back surface.
A plurality of substantially square sub-observation windows 19 are formed. An opening / closing door 23 which is slightly larger than the edge of the window is provided at the edge of the sub-observation window 19 like the opening / closing lid 20. Reference numeral 24 denotes an opening / closing opening provided on the back surface of the curtain cloth 13, which is opened and opened in a substantially U-shape on the back surface of the curtain cloth 13 and a fastener is provided at the cut portion. Therefore, if you open the fastener,
Can be opened wide like a tongue, making it easy to get in and out.

Since this embodiment is configured as described above, it is packed in a bag as shown in FIG. 4 (a) and carried to the observation site, and as shown in FIG. The folded portion is stretched, and further, as shown in FIG.
7 is placed on the ground facing the object to be observed. It is optional whether or not to provide means for fixing to the ground surface.

[0010] The birds and beasts are observed by an upper observation window 17 and a lower observation window 16.
This is performed using In order to grasp the surrounding conditions necessary for observing birds and beasts, the side observation window 19 provided on the side or the back
, But keep the lids and doors of the windows that are not used closed.
By reducing the number of observation windows that are opened at the same time so that the inside does not become too bright, it is possible to relax the vigilance of birds and animals and observe and photograph natural conditions.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the curtain cloth is provided with a sub-observation window for observing the surroundings in addition to the main observation window for observing the observation object, so that the observer can reach the surrounding environment. Observe with care. That is, changes in the surrounding environment that affect the behavior of birds and beasts can be grasped. Claim 2
According to the invention, the opening / closing door can be kept in the open position by the locking means, so that the operation of observing the door while keeping it open by hand as in the related art is not required, and the operator can concentrate on the observation work. . According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to enter and exit the bird's-eye blind in a direction opposite to the observation target, and it hardly affects the natural ecology of birds and animals. And so on.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a birds-eye blind according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a skeleton.

FIGS. 3A and 3B are three views of FIG. 1, wherein FIG. 3A is a front view and FIG.
Is a side view, and (c) is a back view.

FIG. 4 shows a use state, in which (a) is a carrying state,
(B) shows a state during assembly, and (c) shows an assembled state.

FIG. 5 is an external view showing a conventional birds-eye blind.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ··· Bird blind 11 ··· Top frame 12 ··· Four umbrella bones 13 ··· Clothing cloth 14 ··· Drawing cord 15 ··· Locking lever 16 ··· · · · Lower observation window 17 · · · Upper observation window 19 · · · Sub observation window 20 · · · Opening and closing lid 21 · · · One piece of the magic fastener 22 · · · The other piece of the magic fastener 23 · · · ..Opening and closing doors 24.

[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] August 16, 1998

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0005

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[0005]

[Function] [Claim 1] The curtain cloth has a sub-observation window in addition to the main observation window , from which the surroundings of the observer can be observed together. In addition, each observation window is provided with an opening / closing lid, and by closing the lid, the amount of light entering the birds-eye blind is adjusted. [Claim 2] Further, the opening / closing lid can be kept at the open position by the locking means. [Claim 3] Further, it is possible to enter and exit in a direction opposite to the observation target.

Claims (3)

[Claims] An outer surface of a foldable aggregate is covered with a curtain made of fiber, and a main observation window is provided on a front surface of the curtain and a sub-observation window is provided on any of the remaining surfaces. A bird's-eye blind with an open / close lid on at least one of the observation windows. 2. A birds-eye blind according to claim 1, wherein said opening / closing lid is provided with locking means for locking said lid at an open position. 3. A bird's-eye blind according to claim 1, wherein said curtain cloth has an openable and closable entrance on a side face without a main observation window.