US2075309A - Christmas tree stand - Google Patents

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March 30, 1937. G K WTH I v 2,075,309

CHRI STMAS TREE STAND Filed Feb. 4, 1956 y fmidr Patented Mar. 30, 1937 NITED STATES 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to a stand believed to have its best application for supporting Christmas trees, or the like, but intended for any use to which it may be adapted.

A purpose of the invention is to provide a stand of the character indicated adapted to easy and inexpensive manufacture and well suited to the needs of service.

A further purpose is to make a novel pressed metal stand for Christmas trees adapted to easy and effective use year after year on successive trees and between times to easy compact storage with the tree ornaments.

A further purpose is to form duplicate pressed metal legs and duplicate pressed metal braces for easy assembly with a tree into a stand for the tree.

Further purposes will appear in the specification and in the claims.

I have elected to show one form only of my invention, showing a form however that is practical and efficient in operation and which well illustrates the principles involved.

Figure l is a perspective View illustrating my stand in position of use.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan of a brace member, before assembly.

Figures 4 and 5 are sections of Figure 3 taken respectively upon the lines 44 and 55 thereof.

Figure 6 is a plan of a leg member before assembly.

Figures '7 and 8 are sections of Figure 6 taken respectively upon the lines 'l! and 88 thereof.

Like numerals refer to like parts in all figures.

Describing in illustration and not in limitation and referring to the drawing:

In the embodiment shown in the drawing the stand comprises four preferably duplicate legs m, H, l2 and i3 and two preferably duplicate braces 14 and I5, to cross and transversely nest together under the supported tree trunk I6 and with end tongues ll through transversely elongated perforations l8 of the legs.

The legs and braces are preferably of pressed metal and for greater strength and better nesting together or stacking upon each other, when not in use are of generally curved or channel sections. 7

The legs are ribbed longitudinally at l8, both above and below the perforations l8, to stiffen them there.

The legs at their ends are pierced at 19 for screws or nails and outwardly bent at 20 for better connection at their upper ends to the tree trunk and their lower ends to the floor, table or other support for the stand.

The elongated perforations E8 of the legs are at an intermediate portion thereof but preferably are nearer to one end of the leg than the other.

More usually the legs are placed so that the ends thereof nearer to their elongated perforations l8 and therefore nearer to the braces are toward the floor but when a relatively low stand is de sired this arrangement is reversed and the legs are placed so that the ends thereof nearer their elongated perforations l8 are presented tothe tree.

The cross braces at their central portions are pierced at 2| for an upward nail or screw 22 into the tree trunk and are formed at 23 with a fiattening out of the channel section in order that the braces may fit better together in their set up position of Figure 1.

In assembly the crossing braces are fastened to the bottom of the tree trunk, suitably by a screw 22 through the perforations 2!, the legs are then placed so that their elongated perforations [8 receive the tongues ll of the braces, the upper ends of the legs are then fastened by suitable screws to the tree, and optionally the tongues I! of the braces are turned down upon the outside of the legs.

When disassembled the legs nest together and the braces nest together taking up a minimum of space and adapted to easy storage with the usual tree ornaments for re-use in succeeding years.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art, to obtain part or all of the benefits of my invention without copying the structure shown, and I, therefore, claim all such in so far as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a stand for a tree or the like, four duplicate pressed metal legs of channel section and each leg having a transversely elongated perforation intermediate its length and its ends flattened and pierced for fastening respectively to the tree and floor and two duplicate pressed metal braces of channel section each brace centrally flattened transversely nesting the other brace and pierced for fastening to the tree and having tongue extensions at the ends to register in the intermediate perforation of the legs.

2. A Christmas tree stand comprisingtransbination with channeled legs slotted to receive verse braces channeled at each end and terminatthe tongue portions and terminating respectively ing t each e d of ea brace n flo d to g in flanged ends adapted for floor and tree engageand at the middle flattenedand pierced in regisment,

5 try one with the other to pass a. nail for fastening the braces together and to the tree, in com- GEORGE K. SMITH.

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