Abstract: A lightweight collapsible stand for books and the like includes a strip of substantially rigid material defining a front major panel, a back major panel secured to the front major panel by a foldline, a bottom panel secured to the front major panel by a foldline, and a securing flap secured to the back major panel by a foldline. The strip is movable between use and storage orientations, in the use orientation the major panels defining the sides of a triangle and the bottom panel and the securing flap cooperatively defining the base of the triangle, and in the storage orientation the major panels being parallel and the bottom panel overlying the back major panel. The stand also includes releasable fasteners disposed on the securing flap and the bottom panel for cooperatively securing them together in the use orientation, and releasable fasteners disposed on the bottom panel and the back major panel for cooperatively securing them together in the storage orientation.

Abstract: A device for providing support for drawing media is provided. The device has a first support member, a second support member and one panel having a drawing face. The panel is supported by the first support member and the second support member. The panel has a drawing face oriented upwardly at an angle to the horizontal. The device can include a supply tray for storing drawing supplies. The device can also include a second panel having a drawing face.

Abstract: This invention aims to provide a portable and retractable book-reading stand which is easily carried, does not require spacious installing space, and is providable at low cost.This invention is characterized in having a case having a bottom plate and a covering body rotatably connected to the bottom plate which holds the bottom plate at a specified inclined angle by rotating the covering body, and a supporting assembly for holding a document which is expandable along the inclined bottom plate in expanded condition, and retractable up to the size being housed in the case in retracted position, and a clip installed on the upper portion of the supporting assembly.

Abstract: An inclined book holder comprises a crenelated metal strip having an inclined support bar and a roughly S shaped clamping portion adjoined therewith, a pair of lateral members selectively positionable along the support bar, and a cross member also adjustably positionable therealong. The S shaped clamping portion defines a pair of opposed clamps carrying a pair of thumbscrews engaged through respective upper and lower plates thereof. A plurality of holes are formed along the support member for the positioning of the lateral members and cross member. The pivot ends of each lateral member is releasably securable to a selected hole on the support member using a nut and bolt. The cross member can likewise be positioned on the support member with an adjustable orientation therewith.

Abstract: A collapsible stand for use in supporting a guitar or another object. The stand includes a top main member, a central leg which is pivotable forwardly and rearwardly of the main member. In the forward position, the central leg is in a supporting position. Right and left side legs are provided to the right and left of the central leg and the side legs are pivotable outwardly away from the central leg and inwardly toward the central leg. The left and right side legs each include a supporting part thereon, e.g., for supporting a guitar. In particular, the left and right side legs are L shaped, and their bottom forwardly projecting parts would support a guitar. The extent of opening apart of the left and right side legs and the extent of rearward movement of the central leg when the legs are opened apart is restricted by the shape of the main member which the legs engage.

Abstract: This invention relates to a portable expandable desk comprising a first substantially rigid flat surface member; a second substantially rigid flat surface member; a means for hingedly attaching the first surface member to the second surface member so that the first and second surface members are capable of folding together; and a means for bracing the first surface member and the second surface member in an unfold position wherein the bracing means comprises a gripping means to prevent the bracing means from inadvertently disengaging from the first or second surface member.

Abstract: A lightweight structure for oil and acrylic painting that converts to a self-contained backpack, capable of transporting a canvas, paint supplies and the like. The structure is composed of three legs (31L, 31R, 31B) joined at the top, braced by a detachable pack frame (175) suspended between the legs near the middle, with each adjacent pair of legs crossbraced by flexible non-resilient cords (71L, 71R, 71B) between the bottom of each leg and the approximate junction between each adjacent leg and the pack frame. The system is comprehensive, including pallet (267), solvent jar (268) and brush racks (191, 193), all suspended from the pack frame exterior. All paint supplies are securely held, readily accessible from the painting position in front. The canvas is rapidly moved up and down by pivoting canvas supports (300) on the legs, and a canvas support rig (376) sliding on a mast (37) above the legs. Canvas upper corners can be stabilized with a canvas stabilizer rig.

Abstract: A novel and improved drawing desk is provided which can be folded between a storage position and a drawing position. The desk has a center leg which raises from a first end located on the floor to a second end which is pivotally attached to an end leg. By pivotally attaching the center and end legs, the longitudinal axes of the center leg and end leg can be positioned so that they are substantially parallel in the storage position and substantially transverse in the drawing position. An easel is pivotally attached to the center leg for receiving a removable drawing board. A seat assembly, pivotally attached to the center leg, has a protruding seat arm adapted to engage a seat slot disposed in the center leg and a device for adjusting the position of the seat in order to accommodate users of different sizes. In the preferred embodiment, the adjusting device comprises the seat leg having a bottom end which is adapted to engage a plurality of openings disposed along the center leg.

Abstract: A removeable reading rack for mounting on the front face of an instrument console of an exercise machine. The rack is made of two spaced apart upwardly extending frame members each having an upper hook portion for engaging the top edge of the exercise console and an up-turned lower hook portion for engaging and supporting the lower edge of a book or other reading material. The lower hook portions of the spaced apart members are both pivotally connected to a horizontal frame member so that the rack can be folded compactly for transporting or storage when not in use.

Abstract: A table having three major components, top, shelf and base, all constructed of light-weight wood or other light-weight materials and constructed so that the table is easily and quickly assembled and disassembled without the need for tools. All three parts simply fit together and have a handle or a hand-hole for carrying. Such a table provides art and drafting students an economical and light-weight drafting table which can be easily carried and set up. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the folding portable drafting table includes a folding, three panel base, a shelf adapted to be received between the panels of the base, and a removable top adapted to be placed over the base and having depending rails which form grooves therebetween adapted to receive the upper ends of the side panels of the base. The table is easily disassembled by lifting the top off the base, pulling the shelf out, and folding the side panels against the center panel of the base.

Abstract: An adjustable and adaptable artist's easel for holding a canvas includes an upper stand. The upper stand includes a planar frame having opposed sides, a front, a back, a top, and a bottom. This upper stand also includes a canvas support on the front of the frame, a top clamp, and a clamp adjusting device for adjustably mounting the top clamp on the front of the frame for movement toward and away from the canvas support and for locking the top clamp in an adjusted position relative to the canvas support with the canvas clamped therebetween and on the front. This upper stand further includes a pair back legs having a free end, a back leg pivot for pivotally mounting the back legs to the frame, and a back leg locking device for adjustably locking the back legs with the free ends spaced from the planar frame such that the upper stand is capable of standing in an upright position and hence for being used on a table top or the like.

Abstract: An electronic blackboard apparatus, which reads a writing on a writing sheet fitted on a blackboard framework and which electronically copies the writing onto a recording medium. The apparatus includes a blackboard framework foldable together with the writing sheet, and a stand supporting the blackboard framework and a copying device. The stand is reducible in size while supporting the blackboard framework and the writing sheet in their folded position and the copying device. The length of the stand is reducible after the blackboard framework and the writing sheet have been folded to reduce their lengths. The blackboard framework and the writing sheet which have been folded are overturned into a space between opposite legs of the stand and the legs are then closed.

Abstract: A swing clamp detachably clamped onto the frame of a vertical artist's canvas structure. A hand bridge releasably mounted on the clamp, and movable relative to the art surface, for resting the hand thereon, and also for detachably holding a pallet. The hand bridge can also be used, independently, in placing it above a horizontal art surface, for resting the hand. A pallet can be detachably mounted on the hand bridge and slid therealong and also rotated thereon. The pallet can also be used independently for holding by the hand, by means of a handle entirely under the pallet board.

Abstract: A pair of boards are hinged together to form a double sided easel. The boards can be moved to a coplanar position to form a child's bed. The easel has a pair of easel trays that become legs for the bed. Side boards on the outer sides of the boards become side rails on the bed. End boards on the boards support the easel on a supporting surface and become a head board and a foot board for the bed.

Abstract: An easel cart has wheels and shelves which are open on two sides. Opposed U-shaped channels extend vertically on each open side and are adapted to receive collapsed easel doors. An easel door is folded into each set of easel door guides when the unit is not being used and in storage. Each easel door has two easel boards connected by a flexible hinge. The easel doors prevent access to the cart interior when stored in the channels and may be removed from the cart to serve as portable easels. Two easel positioning blocks with inclined grooves steady the easels and dispose the easel boards at a desired vertically inclined angle.

Abstract: An adjustable artist's easel, that includes a base, an upwardly extending pedestal, a picture frame support panel, and an articulated arm structure, extending between the pedestal and the panel. The frame support panel can be tilted around its point of connection to the articulated arm structure. Additionally, the frame support panel can be raised or lowered to various different positions, such that an artist can use the adjustable easel, in either a standing position, or a seated position. As an optional embodiment, the easel can be readily equipped with a painting materials tray, in the space below the picture frame support panel.

Abstract: A portable craftwork device having a rectangular frame for supporting and tensioning sheet materials is provided. The frame has parallel ends and parallel sides, wherein each parallel end comprises a frame and plate, an upright leg, a leg end plate and a leg support. Each leg end plate is hingedly attached to a leg support and the upright leg is rotatably attached to the leg end plate. Each upright leg is further rigidly affixed to a foot. The rectangular frame may be rotated upon the frame leg end plate through an angle of up to 60.degree. for working upon or displaying an artist's or craftspersons craftworks. The legs of the device may be collapsed inwardly and retained against the underside of the rectangular frame for storing of the portable device.

Abstract: An artist's easel comprising a framework adapted to receive and hold a canvas; one or more wheels mounted on the framework and enabling the easel to be wheeled to and from a place of use; means for maintaining the frame in its normally intended attitude of use; and means which, in use, engage the ground on which the easel stands to resist any tendency of the easel to move along the ground, characterised by the feature that the easel, as well as being height-adjustable by moving at least a portion of the frame, can also swivel about the frame axis.

Abstract: A presentation rail assembly is secured to a wall to provide a surface for supporting items in a near-vertical position. The assembly includes a lower rail element secured to the wall, and an upper rail element with preferably a snap-in interengagement with the lower element concealing the wall fastenings. A facing strip extends along the front of the upper element, and provides an abutment confining the lower edges of supported items. Fastenings securing the facing strip to the upper rail element are entered from the rear, when the upper rail element is separtated from the assembly.

Abstract: A bookholder with a base member having a longitudinally extending base portion forward from a U-shaped rod defining a first planar surface; a support member having a longitudinally extending support portion formed from another U-shaped rod defining a second planar surface; a book carrier mounted on the support member having book-supporting ledges; and a transverse coupling member with pairs of holes arranged to receive and hold both the base portion rod and the support portion rod so the first and second planar surfaces intersect at a preselected included angle. The book carrier is movable along the support member to adjust the height of the book carrier with respect to the coupling member. The base member rod is movable with respect to the coupling member between a first "suspending mode" position when the selected included angle is approximately between 90.degree. and 130.degree., into a second "table supporting mode" position when the selected included angle is between 90.degree. and 50.degree..

Abstract: A portable work station provides support for an article to be used by a person occupying available funiture. The work station has a base adapted to fit beneath the person. Preferably, the base has an axis of rotation and extends laterally therefrom. The base can rotate from an upwardly facing position on one side of the axis to an inverted position on the opposite side. An adjustable arm has a common axis of rotation with the base and extends laterally therefrom to a remote end. The base and the adjustable arm can rotate independently of each other or can be interlocked in a fixed relationship relative to each other so that the base and the arm extend in perpendicular planes. An article supporting portion is connected to the remote end of the adjustable arm. The article supporting portion can be positioned for holding the article and the portable work station can be positioned for either right or left handed applications.

Abstract: A stand for reading material or sheet material comprising a back support, and a pair of side supports hinged to said back support. A reading material support member is provided between said first and second side supports. First means comprising pins are provided on said support member for attaching said rear end of said support member to said first and second side supports. Second means are also provided on said support member for attaching said front end of said support member to said first and second side supports, said second means comprising pins mounted on a movable bar. A track is provided to guide the pins mounted on the movable bar so that the distance between the pins of said first means and the pins of said second means can be varied to change the angular orientation of the support member with respect to the back support. The reading material support can also be removed so that the stand can be collapsed.

Abstract: A portable auxiliary desk top article is constructed for temporary positioning onto a work surface arm of a student desk to enlarge the desk's work surface area. The article comprises a first substantially rigid flat surface member and a second substantially rigid flat surface member hingeably attached together. A pocket structure is attached to an underside of one of the flat surface members. The pocket structure is open-sided on two sides and is intended to fit over the work surface arm of the student desk to hold the article in place. When folded out, the flat surface members present an enlarged work surface area for the student, significantly larger than that provided by the work surface arm of the desk.

Abstract: A foldable easel structure for attachment to the cover of a book that folds with the book, keeping the easel readily available when needed. The attached spring page holders are coated to slide on the page when the book is closing, maintain place in the book and allow easy turning of pages by the disabled or young person. The adhesive back of the easel structure also provides the means of attachment to student or business folders and copy boards to allow display of material in an inclined position or for purposes of comfort in copying the material or inputting a computer. A telescopic line guide for the copy page is supported by insertion of the exposed end of the spring page holder into the open lower end of the guide line stem. The guide line bar may be a magnifying means.

Abstract: The subject invention provides an apparatus for steadying one's arm at an easel which comprises a rod like support member two ends covered by plastic caps. A hook is provided at one end of the support member for attaching the apparatus to an easel. The hook is attached to an eyelet located on top of the easel so that the apparatus, when the other end of the support member is supported by one of an artist's hands, steadies the other of said artist's hands which rests upon the support member.

Abstract: A collapsible music stand composed of a plurality of foldable panels which are mounted on a tripod base. Sheet music is to be located against the foldable panels. Foldable panels include a center panel with one side panel mounted to the right edge of the center panel and another side panel mounted to the left edge of the center panel. The side panels have bottom edges which are slightly misaligned from the bottom edge of the center panel so that the side panels can be pivoted to rest against the front side of the center panel with the bottom edges of the side panels not interfering with the lower edge of the center panel. The side panels are capable of assuming a substantially aligned position with the center panel with the side panels being slightly inclined so that relative to the front side of the center panel there is formed a slightly concave configuration. Pivotal shelf members are mounted to the bottom edges of the side panel and to the lower edge of the center panel.

Abstract: A support stand including three upright, cylindrical lower support legs, each leg having a foot extending perpendicularly of the lower end of the leg. The stand further includes two vertically spaced connecting blocks having aligned linearly arranged apertures for receiving the legs, with the upper block mounted over the upper ends of the legs. The two outer legs are rotatably mounted in the blocks to permit the outer legs to be rotated to move the respective feet between a storage position, with the feet substantially aligned and extending perpendicularly of the blocks, and the support position with the feet splayed apart. An upright, cylindrical upper support leg is provided for mounting a support for a book, or piece of equipment such as a microphone and is telescopicaly received within the center leg.

Abstract: A portable book holder which is comprised of two interlocking portions which fold into a flat configuration for easy storage and carrying. The portable book holder may include supports to keep the reading material from sliding off the holder. The portable book holder maintains the book or other reading material at a convenient angle tipped up from the horizontal for easy reading and permits the open pages to lay at a wide angle to permit ready visual excess to both left and right hand pages.

Abstract: A device for supporting drawing media which includes an easel for permitting simultaneous use by more than one person and having at least three side panels. Each side panel has a substantially planar front face and rear face, a bottom edge, and two side edges, the edges forming at least a portion of the periphery of the panel. The panels has disposed proximate to one side edge thereof, means for removably interlocking with mating interlocking means disposed proximate a second side edge of another panel. When interlocked, the panels form a hollow polygon with an open bottom, each facet of the polygon constituting a surface for supporting media to be drawn upon. Alternatively, the panels can be directly drawn upon and erased.

Abstract: The holder comprises a base together with an upright central post. The post carries thereon at least one pair of pivot carriers which are separately movable up and down the central post and clamped thereto at selected positions. Each of the pivot carriers has pivoted thereto a pair of arms. The outer ends of the arms are attached to each other by a pivot-carrying clamp. The pivot axes are all parallel so that two triangles lying in the same plane are formed. Paper holders may be attached to the arms at any selected position to display a flat pattern. When two such sets are used together, the flat pattern can be held in a 3-dimensional display.

Abstract: A free-standing, portable support assembly for a hand-held powered saw or tool includes two angled hingedly interconnected support members. At least one of the two support members has a longitudinal tool support surface thereon which is disposed proximate to a saw blade or tool receiving element receiving opening. Adjustable stop means which has an upright force is also disposed proximate the opening and engages an edge of the saw or tool to retain it on the longitudinal support surface.

Abstract: The easel is a flat, generally diamond-shaped member formed of non-scratching stiff, resilient material, such as plastic. The member has a line of weakness extending thereacross between its opposed oblique angle points. The member can therefore easily be bent along the line of weakness to adopt a two-sided pyramidal form having rearwardly inclined, load-supporting edges and bottom edges. Means are provided along the load-supporting edges for disengageably supporting and frictionally interlocking with a picture frame or flat sheet to be displayed in spaced, non-scratching arrangement above a flat support surface, such as a table top. In the case of a channel-type picture frame, the means may comprise opposed L-shaped slots extending inwardly from each load-supporting edge a short distance above the bottom edge. The L-shaped slots form a T-shaped member. The T-shaped member can frictionally interlock with the base channel of a picture frame, to suspend the frame in a rearwardly inclined display position.

Abstract: A kit for constructing a collapsible podium which includes a laterally pliable yet longitudinally rigid panel such as tambour and a top plate with a circumferential channel into which one of the conformable edges of the panel is operably receivable by using a sloped guiding wall on the plate. The kit may also include a bottom plate with a circumferential channel into which the other conformable edge of the panel is operably receivable by using a sloped guiding wall.

Abstract: An artist's easel comprises a framework adapted to receive and hold a canvas, and one or more wheels mounted on the framework and enabling the easel to be wheeled to and from a place of use. The easel also includes means for maintaining the frame in its normally intended attitude of use, and means which, in use, engage the ground on which the easel stands to resist any tendency of the easel to move along the ground. The easel is characterised by two features. Firstly, that the said ground engaging means comprises one or more feet which project at a fixed angle from the lower portion of the frame; and secondly, that the or each wheel is mounted on the fram via a linkage which is so constructed that a user of the easel can move the wheel (or wheels) away from the foot (or feet) to stand the easel on the ground so that the wheels and the or each foot engage the ground in spaced-apart relationship to maintain the frame in its intended attitude of use.

Abstract: A collapsible swing-out extendible music stand capable of tilting and holding multiple sheets or books simultaneously on a vertical shaft and foldable tripod base. The upper section is a backrest consisting of plates connected by vertical hinges attached to folding shelf segments by horizontal hinges. The outermost plates may be used individually or in tandem being secured to the back of the primary plates by fastening devices, when not in use. A handle is mounted on the front of the center plate for carrying. A pivot device on the reverse side allows tilting of the backrest. A vertical shaft within a shaft and tensioning device permits height adjustment. In the second embodiment the outermost plates fold opposite toward the front, and are without attached shelves. The additional shelf panels are hinged to and folded beneath the main shelves, secured by fastening devices. When in use, the shelf panels are attached by locking device to the extended outermost plate.

Abstract: A reading stand designed to be collapsible and therefore portable and selectively unfolded into an operative position on a supporting surface for the support and retention of a book or like object to be read in an optimum position for viewing. A copy holder for supporting the book or like object may be selectively adjustable as to its angular orientation and/or height relative to the supporting surface on which the reading stand is positioned.

Abstract: A display stand has a base having a front and a rear, and a back support extending up from the rear of the base. Stops are provided at the front of the base. Means are provided for bracing the base and the back, in conjunction with an object, to form a stable triangulated structure. The bracing comprises a frictional finish on the stand for gripping an object and a horizontal support surface, with resilient stiffening elements between the base and the back and between the stops and the base.

Abstract: An upright frame or standard supports a canvas tray holder attached to a continuous endless V-belt stretched between two pulleys. A counterbalanced weight is attached to hold the canvas tray holder and workpiece in equilibrium, and is readily adjustable to any working height. The standard is mounted on a rectangular horizontal base frame with casters. It is supported vertically by an inclined cross brace assembly connected at pivot points to the standard and at holes on the horizontal base frame members for a vertical or an inclined position of the standard.

Abstract: A collapsible easel and a method for packing the easel in a box. The easel includes two leg pairs, located in a spaced parallel relationship by a planar member attached to one leg of each leg pair. The planar member has a writing surface for receiving ink from dry erase markers or the like. The legs of the easel have two members joined in collinear end-to-end abutting fashion. A tray for receiving writing instruments, erasers or the like is disposed between the leg pairs. The invention further includes a method for packaging the components of the easel in a box in a compact manner.

Abstract: A member of sheet material has cut out portions and fold lines, so that when it is folded up and central areas attached together to form a spine display areas are provided in different planes. The display area may be used to display a photograph or picture having with any one of a large range of sizes. The bottom edge of the member may have a V-shaped cut-out so that it leans back slightly when erected.

Abstract: A spaced definer supportable on a table top to define an activity area comprising a perimeter wall enclosing an activity surface area on three sides and a fourth open side toward the user adapted to be placed along an edge of a table top. The perimeter wall has a plurality of interlocking portions and a plurality of attachable components for connecting optional accessory devices, such as subdividing walls, open top containers, and a framework to span the working surface for holding books or writing surfaces.

Abstract: A foldable book holder having oppositely disposed pairs of pivoted arms extending from a base. The book holder is engageable adjacent the edge of a table or desk and provides both display and storage of large illustrated books.

Abstract: An artist's easel comprises a framework adapted to receive and hold a canvas, and one or more wheels mounted on the framework and enabling the easel to be wheeled to and from a place of use. The easel also includes means for maintaining the frame in its normally intended attitude of use, and means which, in use, engage the ground on which the easel stands to resist any tendency of the easel to move along the ground.

Abstract: A portable bookstand is formed from a sheet of rigid card with transverse hinge lines dividing the card into a number of panels to form a base panel, an upstanding front panel, a rearwardly inclined edge receiving panel, an upwardly inclined book face receiving panel and a rearward support structure. Hook and loop fasteners are provided toconnect the junction line between the inclined panels to the base panel and to adjustably position the support panel structure to provide different inclinations of the book receiving panel. The device can be folded flat by lifting the inclined panels away from the base panel to allow the support panel to fold in between. Separate arms are pivotally and swivally mounted on the front inclined surface so that they can project upwardly and rearwardly from outer edges thereof to outer edges of the book receiving panel to engage the outer edges of the book.

Abstract: A portable book stand for supporting an open book or other reading material includes a base member comprising a base panel and a front panel extending upwardly from one edge thereof at an acute angular relationship thereto. A support member includes a support panel and a bottom panel extending from one edge thereof an an oblique angular relationship thereto. A slot extends through the support panel of the support member directly adjacent to the bottom panel, the slot being dimensioned to receive the base panel of the base member therethrough in slidable fashion. Thusly assembled, the bottom panel and the base panel rest atop a supporting surface, and the front panel and support panel of the support panel are disposed generally parallel and spaced apart so that the lower edge of an open book may be retained on said base panel between the front panel and the support panel, the spine of the book inclined against and supported by the support panel.

Abstract: A stand for supporting a packet of fanned computer printout sheets which enables easy leafing forwardly and backwardly through the packet. A rear backer plate is provided with a forwardly and upwardly extending bottom ledge designed to hold the packet in a positionally-stable upright position, and a lower substantially horizontal plate with associated ledge supports those sheets which are turned down in the packet. The rear backing plate and the lower substantially horizontal backer plate are preferably hinged to each other to permit folding-up of the entire support into a compact configuration, and the ledge for the horizontal plate is preferably hinged so it can be swung upwardly and inwardly of the horizontal plate for use with packets of sheets of lesser height. An integral horizontal rear flange limits the rearward tilt of the rear backer plate to the desired angle.

Abstract: Expandable easel which can hold canvases and other work pieces having a wide variety of sizes and shapes in a number of different positions. The easel includes a frame having a pair of upstanding posts and at least one cross member extending between the posts, with a plurality of work piece holders mounted on the frame. The posts and the cross member each have a plurality of telescopically extensible sections, and the work piece holders are mounted on arms which can be mounted in different rotative positions on the frame to accommodate work piece of different sizes. The work piece holders can also be rotated on the arms which carry them to accommodate different work pieces. The frame can also be tilted back to support a work piece in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A reading material support stand is set forth wherein the same is formed of a collapsible interfoldable organization wherein a transparent foldable support surface is generally inclined at an acute angle of approximately 70 degrees to enable a reclining reader to avail himself of reading material positioned on the opposite side of said support surface. The support surface is secured to a foldable framework formed with telescoping legs at peripheral portions of the support surface framework wherein the telescoping legs further include foldable legs latchable into a predetermined orientation relative to the telescoping legs.

Abstract: A music stand that can be collapsed into an easily transportable configuration is disclosed. The stand includes a telescoping stem supported in an upright position by a collapsible base. A music rack is attached to the stem by a support arm, enabling the rack to be pivoted relative to the stem about two, spaced apart, generally horizontal pivot axes.