Portable sports equipment rack

A portable equipment rack, for supporting and organizing equipment, particularly sports equipment, comprising:

• first and second equipment supporting sections, each equipment supporting section including a top wall, a bottom wall vertically spaced from the top wall, a rear wall extending between the top and bottom walls and connected to rear edges of the top and bottom walls, and two end walls extending between the top and bottom walls and along the edges of the rear wall and connected to respective end edges of the top and bottom walls;
• at least one bottom wall of the first and second equipment supporting sections having at least one handle receiving structure disposed along a front edge region thereof, the at least one bottom wall further having an equipment receiving surface disposed between the handle receiving structure, and the rear edge of the at least one bottom wall;
• a hinge, mounted to adjacent end edge regions of the respective bottom walls of the first and second equipment supporting sections, so that an end wall of each equipment supporting section is disposed proximate the hinge and the other end wall of each supporting section is disposed distal to the hinge,
• the hinge further having an axis of pivoting that extends parallel to adjacent end edges of the respective bottom walls of the first and second equipment supporting sections, for enabling the first and second equipment supporting sections to be pivoted between a deployed configuration, in which the first and second equipment supporting sections are disposed end-to-end, and a stowed configuration, in which the first and second equipment supporting sections are pivoted such that the respective bottom walls are juxtaposed parallel and adjacent one another,
• the positioning of the hinge being such that when the equipment rack is supported by its ends in the deployed configuration, the weight of the respective first and second equipment supporting sections will tend to prompt the first and second equipment supporting sections toward pivoting upwardly relative to one another, prompting end edge regions of the top walls toward one another, to maintain the equipment rack in its deployed configuration.