which crosses a second collar 17 at an angle thereto the pole then extends to a second crossing generally designated 19 of the same structure the pole 11 can be thought of as a continuous pole extending from one terminal edge of the tent to the other but actually is made up of short rod segments wherein the collar members such as the collar 15 serve to couple two adjacent sections of the rod together thus pole 11 actually consists of the short rod segments 11a 11b 11c 11d and 11e coupled together by the collars to form a long tent pole at the bottom of the tent separate collars can be used for each rod as shown at 13a and 13b or a double collar can be used as shown at 14 the collars employed on the body of the tent are later described in detail at the crossings it is advantageous to use a clip such as that shown in my co pending u s pat application ser no 825 410 filed aug 17 1977 the method of using such a clip as well as a typical collar crossing structure is shown in fig1 4 and particularly in fig3 and 4 the clip is generally designated 21 and consists of three main parts namely a ring 23 which lies on the outer surface of the tent fabric a disc 25 which lies under the surface of the.