Portable musical instrument stand

Claim 1

A portable and foldable stand for musical instruments, comprising: a pair of spaced apart parallel tubular main legs; a pair of brace legs each having one end pivotally attached to each of said main legs; a pair of brace arms each releasably coupled to each of said main legs and said brace legs adjacent their opposite end for maintaining said brace legs in an open position with respect to said main legs; latch means for releseably attaching each of said brace arms to each of said main legs; pivot means joined to the end of each of said main legs; at least one cross member for receiving and supporting said musical instruments, releasable clamping means disposed on each end of said at least one cross member comprising a split ring collar having two jaws, one of which includes a threaded shank and the other having a wing screw engaged into said threaded shank for releasably clamping said cross member to each main leg, said clamping means releasably clampable and slidable on each of said main legs, thereby linking said pair of main legs so that the stand may be placed into the erected position by attaching each of said brace arms to each of main legs with said latch means and by positioning and securing each clamping means at each end of of said at least one cross member on each main leg or over said pivot means thereby providing a rigid connection between said parallel main legs to create a stable stand; a tubular upper leg segment joined to each of said pivot means and having a diameter substiantially similar to each of said tubular main leg and a length at least the length of said split ring collar, so that the stand may be folded by detaching said brace arms from said main legs, releasing said clamping means on said cross member, sliding said clamping means of said cross member off of each of said main legs and said pivot means onto said upper leg segment, and folding said main leg of each support toward said cross member.