Foldable horse

Claim 1

A COLLAPSIBLE HORSE FOR SUPPORTING PLANKS AND THE LIKE, OF THE TYPE COMPRISING A STRINGER AND LATERALLY OPPOSITE DOWNWARDLY DIVERGENT LEGS CONNECTED WITH EACH END PORTION OF THE STRINGER, SAID HORSE BEING CHARACTERIZED BY: (A) COAXIAL END PORTIONS ON THE STRINGER; (B) MEANS CONNECTING EACH OF THE LEGS AT ONE SIDE OF HORSE WITH THE STRINGER, COMPRISING (1) A TRANSVERSE MEMBER SECURED MEDIALLY OF ITS ENDS TO THE UPPER END OF THE LEG, AND (2) A PAIR OF SLEEVES SECURED TO THE END PORTIONS OF THE TRANSVERSE MEMBER IN COAXIAL AXIALLY SPACED APART RELATIONSHIP SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIDISTANT FROM THE LEG AND EMBRACING AN END PORTION OF THE STRINGER; (C) MEANS CONNECTING EACH OF THE LEGS AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HORSE WITH THE STRINGER COMPRISING A SLEEVE SECURED MEDIALLY OF ITS ENDS TO THE UPPER END OF THE LEG AND EMBRACING AN END PORTION OF THE STRINGER BETWEEN THE TWO SLEEVES ON THE ADJACENT LEG, SO THAT THE TWO LEGS AT EACH END OF THE STRINGER ARE OPPOSITE ONE ANOTHER AND LIE IN A COMMON PLANE TRANSVERSE TO THE STRINGER; (D) THE AXES OF ALL OF THE LEGS BEING OUTWARDLY OFFSET WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF THE STRINGER SO THAT THE LEGS AT ONE SIDE OF THE HORSE MAY BE BROUGHT INTO CLOSE JUXTAPOSITION TO THE LEGS AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HORSE, WITH ALL OF THE LEGS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER WHEREBY TO MINIMIZE THE STORAGE SPACE REQUIRED BY THE HORSE WHEN COLLAPSED; (E) ELONGATED BRACES EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE STRINGER, EACH OF SAID BRACES HAVING ITS OPPOSITE ENDS CONNECTED WITH THE LEGS AT ONE SIDE OF THE HORSE TO BRACE THE SAME AND HOLD THEM IN COPLANAR RELATIONSHIP, THE SEVERAL BRACES BEING SPACED DIFFERENT DISTANCES FROM THE STRINGER TO COOPERATE THEREWITH IN PROVIDING FOR THE SUPPORT OF PLANKS AND THE LIKE AT ANY OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; (F) THE SLEEVES THAT ARE FIXED WITH RESPECT TO THE LEGS AT ONE SIDE OF THE HORSE BEING FREELY ROTATABLE ON THE STRINGER PORTIONS THEY EMBRACE; AND (G) MEANS ANCHORING ONE OF THE SLEEVES TO THE STRINGER, WHEREBY ALL OF THE SLEEVES ARE HELD AGAINST AXIAL DISPLACEMENT RELATIVE TO THE STRINGER.