Patent ID: 7878345

Claim:
A folding rack for receiving and transporting objects to be placed in webs suspended in the rack, said rack being free standing in an open position in the absence of exterior support or angle braces and having side frame parts, cross struts and a rigid, non-folding, generally horizontal base part defining a bottom plane, said base part comprising four non-folding base corner posts rigidly connected to and extending perpendicularly to said bottom plane and, each side part comprising two rigidly connected corner posts, said side parts connected articulatedly at a lower end region to the corner posts of the base part and being pivotable at least about 90° in relation to the base part, from a position substantially parallel to the bottom plane in a closed position to a position perpendicular to the bottom plane in an open position, said side parts being lockable to said corner posts of the base part in the open upright position; said cross struts being articulated to an upper end region of each of the side frame parts, said struts being pivotable toward one another parallel to the bottom plane in an open position, and in said open position, free ends thereof being connectable to one another in a substantially rigid manner so that in the open position the upper ends of the side parts are held by the cross struts, at a minimum spacing defined by the cross struts, wherein in a mutually connected condition the free ends of the cross struts engage with one another in a connection region and are held together in substantially rigid manner by a clamp reaching over the connection region, and in that in an folded condition the cross struts fold substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel to the bottom plane so that similar racks can be stacked on top of one another with side parts parallel with one another, said folding rack requiring only connection of the cross struts for securing the rack in the open position, said folding rack being foldable from the open position to the closed position so that the entire folded rack is contained within an area defined by the corner posts of the rigid base part.