Stand for supporting phonograph records

Claim 1

A stand for supporting flat plate-like articles, particularly phonograph records in their jackets, consisting of a body open along two adjacent sides, said body comprising a rectangular base arranged to extend substantially horizontally, a rectangular back disposed substantially perpendicularly to said base and arranged to extend upwardly from said base, a pair of laterally spaced Lshaped side walls secured to said base and back and extending from the same sides of said base and back, wherein the improvement comprises that said body is free-standing and is formed unitarily of a synthetic plastic material and said base and back each have the same dimensions and can be used interchangeably as said base or back, each said L-shaped side wall having a pair of webs, one of sAid webs extending along and for the length of an edge of said base and the other said web extending along and for the length of an edge of said back, the dimension upwardly from said base of one of said webs extending along said base and the dimension extending outwardly from said back of the other said web is the same and is considerably less than the length dimension of said webs, at least one L-shaped partition formed integrally with and extending upwardly from said base and outwardly from said back, said L-shaped partition being disposed in laterally spaced substantially parallel relationship with and between said L-shaped side walls, said partition extending from the common edge of said base and back and including a pair of webs with each web having a length less than the length of said webs of said side walls so that the free ends of said webs of said L-shaped partition are recessed inwardly from the plane containing the free ends of said webs of said side walls, said partition dividing the space between said side walls to form individual storage spaces each capable of holding a plurality of the records in their jackets, and the intersection of the edges of said webs of said side walls and of said webs of said partition spaced outwardly from said base and back are rounded off to prevent damage to articles positioned in the stand.