Patent ID: 7552966

Claim:
A portable collapsible platform having at least three outwardly-inclined legs and a platform supported thereby, said platform being comprised of dimensionally-stable foldable sections, said legs each having multiple connectable sections, an uppermost portion of each of said legs being adapted to be removably attached at a centrally-positioned location at the underside of said platform, whereby said legs extend from said centrally-positioned location outwardly therefrom in a supporting relationship to said platform, wherein said uppermost sections of said legs supportingly engage posts extending outwardly at said centrally-positioned location, said legs being maintained in biased relationship to said posts at the underside of said platform and the sections of said legs in biased relationship to each other by an elastic cord or cable which extends between said underside of said platform and a lowermost section of said legs, with said elastic cord or cable extending through each said respective sections of said legs and fixed to said lowermost section of each of said at least three outwardly-inclined legs, said elastic cord or cable being tensioned such that said sections of said legs while in assembled position being biased toward the underside of said platform and maintained in supporting relationship to each other, and said legs stored in a non-supporting position by separating said sections of each leg from one another by extension of said elastic cord or cable, and said separated sections of each leg placed onto an uppermost surface of said platform.