Foldable stand for holding musical instruments and blanks for forming same

A stand for holding muscial instruments and including a tray supported by spaced apart legs, said tray and legs formed of folded paperboard or similar material, said stand comprising:

• generally flat outer end panels forming first and second ends of the tray and at least a portion of said legs, said outer end panels formed by folding a unitary blank of paperboard or similar material;
• front and back panels connected to the outer end panels along fold lines and forming a front and back of the tray;
• inner end panels disposed within the tray and connected to said outer end panels at said first and second ends along fold lines, said inenr end panels including spaced apart hinge lines permitting a shelf to be formed in each of said inner end panels and placed in a generally horizontally extended position and wherein said hinge lines permit said shelf to be moved to a retracted position;
• a bottom panel connected to one of said front and back panels along a fold line and forming at least a portion of a bottom of the tray;
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• inner leg panels joined to the outer end panels and folded against a lower portion of the outer end panels along fold lines.

A unitary blank of paperboard or like material for folding to form a stand having a tray supported by spaced apart legs, said blank comprising:

• a first generally rectangular outer end panel having opposed side edges and opposed top and bottom edges, said outer end panel forming an end of said tray and a portion of one of said legs when said blank is folded to form said stand;
• a second generally rectangular outer end panel having opposed side edges and opposed top and bottom edges, said second outer end panel forming another end of said tray and a portion of the other of said legs when said blank is folded to form said stand;
• a front panel connected at one end thereof to a portion of one of said side edges of said first outer end panel along a first fold line, the other end of said front panel being connected to a portion of the one of said side edges of said second outer end panel along a second fold line;
• a rear panel connected at one end thereof to a portion of the other of said side edges of said first outer end panel along a third fold line, said rear panel being connectable at the other end thereof to a portion of said other side edge of said second outer end panel when said blank is folded to form said stand, wherein said front and rear panels form the front and rear sides of said tray;
• a first inner end panel connected to said top edge of the first outer end panel along a fourth fold line and foldable to form an inner end of said tray;
• a second inner end panel connected to said top edge of the second outer end panel along a fifth fold line and foldable to form another inner end of said tray, said first and second inner end panels including spaced apart higne lines for forming extendable and retractable shelves within said tray when the blank is folded to form said stand;
• inner leg panels joined at side edges thereof to another portion of side edges of said first and second outer end panels along fold lines;
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• leg brace panels connected to other side edges of said inner leg panels along other fold lines.