Patent ID: 7591444

Claim:
A foldable stand for standing on a reference surface, comprising: a base including an elongated main body and two buttresses, said main body having a bottom end, two opposite sides that are opposite to each other in a first direction, and two opposite end portions that are opposite to each other in a second direction transverse to said first direction, said buttresses extending downwardly from said bottom end of said main body, being disposed respectively at said end portions of said main body so as to cooperate with said main body to define a recess thereamong, and being adapted to stand on the reference surface, and further including two opposite pairs of pivot joints, each of which has a shaft portion that has two opposite ends, and first and second connecting portions that extend respectively from said ends of said shaft portion, said second connecting portions being rotatable relative to said shaft portions, respectively, said pivot joints being received in said recess, said first connecting portions of each of said pairs of said pivot joints being respectively secured to said ends of said main body, said second connecting portions of each of said pairs of said pivot joints being secured to said pivot part of a respective one of said wings, said pivot part of each of said wings being sleeved around said shaft portions of a respective one of said pairs of said pivot joints; and two opposite wings, each of which has a pivot part that extends into said recess and that is pivoted to said main body so as to permit said wings to be rotatable relative to said main body between a first position, in which said wings are respectively disposed at said sides of said main body in a state extending laterally and oppositely in said first direction from said main body so as to be adapted to stand on the reference surface together with said buttresses, and a second position, in which said wings are folded together and extend downwardly from said main body.