Support platform for mobile display stand

A pre-assembled support platform for enabling a display stand to be moved, the platform comprising:

• a) a generally planar support panel having upper and lower surfaces;
• b) a pair of elongated side lifts at the lower surface of the support panel, each side lift extending along a depthwise direction, the side lifts being spaced apart along a transverse direction generally perpendicular to the depthwise direction, each side lift having a generally planar, bottom wall generally parallel to the support panel, each side lift further having a pair of riser walls extending vertically along a longitudinal direction generally perpendicular to the depthwise and transverse directions, the riser walls of the side lifts bounding with the lower surface of the support panel an open passage extending along the depthwise direction entirely underneath the support panel;
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• c) a pair of side wheel assemblies journaled on the platform in respective alignment with the side lifts, and spaced apart of each other along the transverse direction, the side wheel assemblies being located remote from the open passage.

A mobile display stand for supporting articles, comprising:

• a) a rear panel extending along a longitudinal direction;
• b) a first, generally planar, base panel hingedly connected to the rear panel;
• c) a second, generally planar, base panel hingedly connected to, and overlapping, the first base panel to bound a space with the first base panel;
• d) a shelf elevated relative to the base panels and extending away from the rear panel for supporting the articles to be displayed;
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• e) a pre-assembled support platform attachable as a unit on, and removable as a unit from, the stand, the support platform including a generally planar, support panel located in the space and sandwiched by and between the base panels, and a pair of side lifts located exteriorly of the space and mounted on the support panel in a spaced-apart relationship as considered along a transverse direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the side lifts extending along the longitudinal direction away from the shelf and the base panels for supporting the base panels above a floor, the support platform including a pair of side wheel assemblies located exteriorly of the space and journaled on the support platform adjacent the side lifts in a spaced-apart relationship along the transverse direction for rolling the stand from one place to another.