Patent ID: 11871742
Assignee: nan
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A portable, foldable and collapsible hunting stand comprising:
a rigid supporting frame adapted to be firmly coupled to a tree or other vertical support, the frame comprising a pair of rigid, spaced apart and parallel stanchions that are normally vertically oriented when the stand is deployed, and a transverse top and a spaced apart, lower, parallel transverse bottom, said transverse top and said transverse bottom extending between said parallel frame stanchions;
a selectively deployable platform adapted to be folded between a generally vertical transportation configuration and a generally horizontal, deployed configuration, the platform comprising:
a first retractable platform strut pivoted relative to said frame with a first hinge having a first axis of rotation forming a first acute angle relative to the frame;
a second retractable platform strut pivoted relative to said frame with a second hinge having a second axis of rotation forming a second acute angle relative to the frame, the second platform strut angled away from the first platform strut;
wherein said first hinge axis of rotation is neither parallel with nor colinear with said second hinge axis of rotation;

whereby the platform struts are disposed in generally parallel relation when the hunting stand assumes the transportation configuration, and the platform struts outwardly diverge from each other when the platform is disposed in said generally horizontal, deployed configuration, and;
a selectively deployable traversing strut adapted to extend between said first and second platform struts when the stand is deployed.