Patent ID: 6161808
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
A knockdown support stand comprising:a top having an upper surface, a periphery, and a substantially planar bottom surface;a plurality of support members releasably attached to and depending from said bottom surface; each support member including first and second legs each having a longitudinal centerline and which are joined at their bottom ends and extend upwardly from said joined bottom ends independently of one another, each leg terminating at its upper end in the form of a bent end, each of said legs being resiliently bendable and twistable about their respective centerline;a plurality of pairs of tubular receivers secured to said bottom surface of said top, each receiver including a longitudinal centerline, said centerline of each receiver of a pair of receivers being oriented with the extensions of their respective longitudinal centerlines intersecting at a right angle at a location inwardly of said perimeter and inwardly of said pair of receivers, said plurality of pairs of receivers being spaced at intervals along said perimeter of said support top, one of said receivers of each pair of receivers being adapted to receive therein one of said upper bent ends of said legs of a support member when the longitudinal centerline of each of said bent ends is manipulated by resiliently flexing each leg to space the legs of a support member apart from one another and by resiliently twisting each leg to rotate its respective bent end to thereby align the longitudinal centerlines of said bent end with the longitudinal centerlines of respective ones of a pair of said receiver tubes;whereby upon insertion of said bent ends of each leg of a support member into respective ones of said pair of receiver tubes and release of the manipulative forces on said legs, said legs tend to return to a relaxed state causing said bent ends to frictionally engage the inner walls of their respective receivers and secure said bent ends against withdrawal of said bent ends from their respective receivers.