Patent ID: 7688527

Claim:
A portable magnification stand apparatus, comprising: an upper planar lens unit that holds a lens for magnifying objects in an upper inner plane area surrounded by and held in place by an upper coplanar support material mounted near the front portion of the upper coplanar support material causing the magnification of an object to appear greater on portions of the object a further distance away from a user's view near the front portion of the upper planar lens unit compared with the portion of the object near the back portion of the upper planar lens unit due to the non-parallel position of the upper planar lens unit compared to an object being viewed by a user under the upper planar lens unit; and a pair of trapezoidal planar materials each having a pair of parallel sides and a pair of non-parallel sides and swingably attached along parallel lengths of the upper planar lens unit and capable of being positioned downwardly in a perpendicular position to the upper planar lens unit in order to increase a height of the front portion of the upper planar lens unit a greater amount compared with an increase in height of the back portion of the upper planar lens unit and the pair of trapezoidal planar materials each swingably attached along parallel lengths of the upper planar lens unit are further capable of being positioned upwardly in a coplanar position to the upper planar lens unit to reduce the overall profile of the apparatus compared when the attached pair of trapezoidal planar materials are positioned downward.