Patent ID: 6370816
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
In a tree stand having an inner well to contain water for sustaining a cut natural tree, an outer peripheral skirt for buttressing the well and supporting the stand, and a number of fastening assemblies for securing the tree to the stand, each said fastening assembly having a locating pin slidable through respective apertures in the stand for movement between a retracted configuration spaced from the tree and an extended configuration engaging the tree, each said pin having a manipulating knob at an outer end remote from the well, the improvement in which the peripheral skirt has a number of access openings each associated with a respective fastening assembly, the access openings extending longitudinally along a portion of the height of the peripheral skirt from a position adjacent to a respective said locating pin toward a perimetric edge of said skirt wherein the locating pins of underlying nested tree stands may be accommodated so that a plurality of stands may be vertically stacked.