Patent ID: 7461752

Claim:
A foldable article support rack, comprising: a shelf-board; a plurality of bearing legs joined to the shelf-board at spaced locations to support the shelf-board steadily; the shelf-board comprising at least two daughter boards that are interconnected in a manner to be foldable along a line; a plurality of telescopic link mechanisms connected to the daughter boards and the bearing legs, the telescopic link mechanisms are operable to selectively fold or stretch the daughter boards and the bearing legs; each telescopic link mechanism including a tubular shaft, connection rods, a slidable fastener, and a fastener cap, the daughter boards pivotally connect to a top end of the tubular shaft, the fastener cap is fixed to the tubular shaft, the slidable fastener is slidably disposed on the tubular shaft and is slidable between a first position where the slidable fastener latches with the fastener cap to latch the rack in the stretched state and a second position where the slidable fastener is free to keep the rack in the folded state, each connection rod has one end pivotally connected to the slidable fastener and the other end pivotally connected to one of the bearing legs, the slidable fastener having a latching block projected from an outer surface thereof, the fastener cap having a latching recess recessed in an inner surface thereof for latching with the latching block, the fastener cap further having a button which is operable to release the latching block.