Collapsible crafting frame with storage compartment base
OwnerSandra L. Browninventor
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Abstract
A portable crafting frame includes carding strips to releasable support fabric while stretched across a window opening to allow access to opposite sides of the cloth. Front and back pairs of legs are pivotally supported by notches in upstanding walls in a hollow interior of the crafting frame at the underside and facing toward a base where the legs snap in notches formed in walls. The crafting frame is restrained against forward and aft movement by abutment walls in the frames and base that engage the legs in an operative positions. The legs can be released from the base pivoted against the bottom of the crafting frame to allow storage of the crafting frame in the base.
Claims19
A transportable crafting apparatus including the combination of:
- a base having a support surface opposite to a storage compartment;
- a crafting frame having a window opening defined by carrier bars including cloth holding carding strips releasably engaging the cloth spanning said window opening for allowing crafting operations on the cloth from opposite sides thereof;
- leg means for establishing a spaced apart operative position and a storage position for the crafting frame, the leg means in the operative position extending between the crafting frame and said base;
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- support means supporting said leg means for pivotal movement on one of said base and said crafting frame, said support means constraining said leg means to the other of said base and said crafting frame, said support means constraining said crafting frame against lateral movement relative to said storage compartment of the base while spaced therefrom in said operative position, said storage compartment of the base including means to prevent contact with said carding strips when said crafting frame is protectively supported in said storage compartment with said leg means in said storage position.
A crafting apparatus including the combination of:
- a crafting frame having a window opening defined by carrier bars including cloth holding means releasably engaging the cloth spanning said window opening sides thereof;
- a base having a load bearing support surface;
- leg means for establishing an operative position and an inoperative position for the crafting frame, the leg means in the operative position extending between said crafting frame and said base;
- releasable support means carried by one of said base and said crafting frame;
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- anchor means carried by the other of said base and said crafting frame, said releasable support and said anchor means being cooperatively abuttable with said leg means when extending between said base and said crafting frame for constraining the crafting frame against movement in any direction relative to said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.