Portable equipment stand

• US 4,222,546 A
• Filed: 12/19/1978
• Issued: 09/16/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanders B. Walker Jr
• Original Assignee: Sanders B. Walker Jr
• Inventors: Walker, Sanders B. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, James C.
• Application Number:
  US05/971,837
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 248/158, 248/357, 248/415, 248/507, 248/508, 248/676, 248/639
• US Class Current: 248/676
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/22 with approximately constant height, e.g. with constant length of column or of legs F16M11/42 takes precedence

Abstract

A portable workstand primarily designed to support a plurality of different types of reloading presses and related equipment to allow a variety of operations to be performed on metallic cartridge and shotshell cases without the necessity of changing presses. The workstand includes a base which is universally mountable to the hub portion of tires to varying sizes and a top plate that is provided with a plurality of particularly shaped slots and a variety of mounting hole patterns which together cooperate to allow substantially all conventional reloading press equipment to be mounted thereon with up to about four reloading tools or combinations of presses and tools being simultaneously mountable.

Claims

1. A portable reloading press stand comprising a top and base member respectively connected to the opposite ends of a support pipe, said base member having first means defining a single hole on one side of said support pipe and second means defining a pair of spaced apart holes on the opposite side of said support pipe said first and second means cooperating together for providing mounting holes for properly supporting said press, said top member having means defining first and second slots positioned on opposite sides of said top member and extending inwardly from the exterior thereof, said first slot having a curved interior, said second slot having a substantially rectangular shape, said top and base members being secured to said support pipe so that said first slot is positioned directly above said single hole.

2. A portable press stand as in claim 1 wherein said second slot is defined by an interior edge and two side edges and includes at least one shaped interior corner comprising a portion extending outwardly from said interior edge and inwardly from one of said side edges, said portion having an angled interiorly facing edge.

3. A portable press stand as in claim 2 wherein said angled edge has an angle of about 45°

.

4. A portable press stand as in claim 1 wherein said top member further includes means defining a plurality of groups of holes for mounting tools thereon.

5. A portable press stand as in claim 4 wherein one group is comprised of 1/2 inch holes and another group is comprised of 9/32 inch holes.

6. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 4 wherein at least two different groups of said holes are arranged in separate substantially rectangular patterns about the center of said top member.

7. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 4 wherein at least one group of said holes is arranged in a V-shaped pattern extending along one side of said top member so that the pattern lies substantially between the interior boundary of said first and second slots.

8. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 4 wherein at least one group of said holes is arranged in a trapezoidal pattern about the interior end of said first slot.

9. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 1 wherein said first slot is about 2.5 inches wide and about 3.5 inches long and said second slot is about 6 inches wide and about 3 inches deep.

10. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 1 wherein said base member is mounted to the hub portion of an automobile wheel.

11. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 1 wherein each hole in the pair of holes comprising said second hole means is circumferentially spaced from the single hole a distance ranging between about 140°

to about 150°

.

12. A portable reloading press stand as in claim 11 wherein the pair of holes comprise elongated slots having front and rear portions positioned so that the rear portion of the slots is angled circumferentially inwardly of the radial on which the front portion of the slot is positioned.