Portable post support

Claim 1

A post support stand for cartridge rebuilding, reconditioning and like bench-type tool apparatus, this stand having folding legs for selected collapse, storage, transport and the like, said stand having legs which are retained at one end by a common base member, said support stand including: (a) a support column; (b) a base member adapted to engage and retain the lower end of said column in an attitude substantially normal to the plane of the base member; (c) an apparatus tool holder rotatably mounted on the upper end of the support column; (d) means for locking the apparatus tool holder in a selected orientation on the column including a threaded end on the support column with the tool holder carried on this threaded end and a thrust plate positioned between the end of the column and the tool holder, and there is a jam screw carried in a threaded aperture in the tool holder, this jam screw turned into engagement with the thrust plate to cause the tool holder to be locked in the desired orientation on the column; (e) four legs retaining slots having a selected size and orientation formed in the base member; (f) two front legs and two rear legs slidably and pivotally and removably mounted in the retaining slots in the base member and in mounted and extended condition the legs form an X-type configuration, said front legs being the longer pair of legs; (g) a retaining pivot pin carried in each slot and extending at least substantially therethrough, this pin providing a means for pivotally retaining one end of a leg when mounted in the leg retaining slot; (h) a mounting end formed on one end of each leg, this mounting end slidable in an appropriately sized slot in the base member and in this end is formed a pin engaging slot, this slot sized for an easy sliding fit on the retaining pivot pin, said engaging slot extending inwardly from one longitudinal edge and terminating intermediate the longitudinal edges whereat the slot turns for a short distance substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the leg and toward the end of the leg to be retained in the slot, this extension of the slot providing a pivot retention portion when and as it engages the pivot pin, and (i) cooperative means provided on the leg and base member to limit the rotative motion of each leg around the pivot pin when and after the leg has been slidably mounted on the pin, this limiting movement causing the outer ends of each of the legs to engage the support surface before the support column and the base member engage the support surface when in an erected condition.