CONNECTING ELEMENT FOR A STRUCTURE BEARING A TENT-TYPE SHELTER, AND CORRESPONDING STRUCTURE AND SHELTER

摘要

The invention relates to a connecting element 1 to 6 for a modular, foldable structure 30 bearing a shelter such as a tent or the like, with fast assembly, particularly having an application in the field of tents suitable for emergency situations, and military use. The connecting element is intended for connecting at least two elongated parts 10 to 23 in order to form at least one portion of the structure, the structure being intended to support a fabric sheet. The connecting element comprises at least a first portion 40 and a second portion 42 suitable for being secured to one end of one of the two elongated parts and one end of the other of the two elongated parts, respectively, the first and second portions each being formed entirely from plastic material and arranged in such a way as to allow the at least partial rotation, in a first plane, of one of the two elongated parts relative to the other, in order to allow the passage of the assembly comprising the connecting element and the two elongated parts connected by the connecting element, from a folded position wherein the two elongated parts are arranged substantially parallel to each other, to an unfolded position wherein the two elongated parts form a non-zero vertex angle of the connecting element.