Folding rack

Claim 1

A SUPPORTING STAND COMPRISING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR TWO-PART SUPPORTING PLATFORM HINGED FOR FOLDING ALONG A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING CENTRAL LINE OF DIVISION BETWEEN SAID TWO PARTS AND HAVING LATERALLY OPPOSITE ENDS AND LATERALLY OPPOSITE ANGUALARLY INCLINED SIDE PORTIONS EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID LINE OF DIVISION, MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING SAID TWO PARTS TOGETHER AND PERMITTING FOLDING IN ONE DIRECTION ONLY FROM A FLAT POSITION WITH SAID TWO PARTS GENERALLY LYING IN A SINGLE PLANE AND SAID ANGULARLY RELATED SIDE PORTIONS INCLINED AWAY FROM THE GENERALLY PLANE OF SAID PLATFORM IN A DIRECTION OPPOSITE SAID ONE DIRECTION OF FOLDING TO A FOLDED POSITION WITH SAID TWO PLATFORM PARTS ANGULARLY RELATED AND FOLDED ABOUT SAID LINE OF DIVISION THEREBETWEEN IN SAI ONE DIRECTION AND SAID ANGULARLY INCLINED SDE PORTIONS EXTENDING FROM SAID FOLDED PARTS IN GENERALLY OPPOSED DIRECTIONS, FOUR LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING LEGS FOR SUPPORTING SAID PLATFORM, EACH ONE OF SAID FOUR LEGS BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE ITS LENGTH TO AN END OF ONE OF SAID PLATFORM PARTS AT A POINT THEREALONG BETWEEN SAID LINE OF DIVISION AND SAID ANGULARLY INCLINED SIDE PORTIONS SO THAT SAID INCLINED SIDE PORTIONS LIE OUTWARDLY AND AWAY FROM LINE OF DIVISION, MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING TOGETHER ONE END OF EACH OF SAID LEGS CONNECTED TO THE SAME END OF SAID PLATFORM AT POINTS ALONG THEIR LENGTHS SPACED IN SAID OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE POINTS OF CONNECTION WITH SAID PLATFORM,. A LONGITUDINAL RUNNER-LIKE MEMBER EXTENDING BETWEEN AND CONNECTING THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID LEGS CONNECTED TO LATERALLY OPPOSITE ENDS OF EACH OF SAD PLATFORM PARTS, WHEREBY WHEN SAID PLATFORM IS UNFOLDED AND FLAT IT STANDS SUPPORTED ON SAID LEGS, SAID OPPOSITE ENDS OF WHICH AND SAID RUNNER-LIKE MEMBERS ATTACHED THERETO ARE WIDESPREAD AND SAID PIVOTALLY CONNECTED-TOGETHER ENDS OF WHICH EXTEND ABOVE SAID PLATFORM ALONG ITS END TO FORM A RAILING AND A HANDLE FOR SAID PLATFORM, AND WITH SAID ANGULARLY INCLINED SIDE PORTIONS EXTENDING ABOVE SAID PLATFORM TO FORM A RAILING ALONG ITS SIDES AND WHEREBY WHEN SAID PLATFORM IS FOLDED IN SAID ONE DIRECTION SAID STAND AND SAID OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID LEGS AND THE RUNNER-LIKE ELEMENTS CONNECTING PAIRS OF THEM ARE DRAWN TOGETHER SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCING THE SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE STAND AND SAID ANGULARLY INCLINED SIDE PORTIONS EXTEND IN SUBSTANTIALLY OPPOSED DIRECTIONS AWAY FROM THE FOLDED STAND TO A POSITION FOR COOPERATING STACKING INTERENGAGEMENT WITH A SIMILAR AND FOLDED STAND.