What Is a Fast Pitch Tent, Hub Tent, Automatic and Quick Setup Tent Frame?

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The term fast pitch tent describes a construction in which the tubes in the frame are permanently interconnected creating a single piece. This means that you can never lose a pole segment, and this makes tent’s setup fast and easy.

But there are tents in which only one part of the frame can be described as fast pitch, so there are still separate poles.

In such a design there is typically one or more hub elements to which the poles converge and connect. For these reasons it is sometimes described as a hub frame and also as an automatic frame. There is also a term quick-setup tents which describes essentially the same deign.

But this all should not be mixed with instant tents or pop-up tents where the frame is permanently pre-attached to the tent. Instead, in a fast pitch design, the tent is separate from the frame.

Traditional modern tents typically also have poles with shock corded segments, but the poles are still separate from each other.