Fold away service tray

Abstract

To pairs of elongated legs for supporting a tray and shiftable from a deployed position orienting the tray in a horizontal working orientation and including one or more connector lengths connecting the tray and legs for shifting to a vertical position when the legs are collapsed together to a self-supporting position.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to stand up trays for use by stylists in styling the hair of customers. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART [0002] Hair stylists often times share salon space and typically have personal stations where they store their working tools, hair coloring and treatment products. In the efficient rendering of their service menus it is important that the stylists have ready access to their hair treatment products for repetitive applications to different selected areas of the customer's hair. Mobile stands nave long been utilized by stylists, typically supported on castors for rolling about with the stylists as he or she maneuvers about the customers' chair to perform the styling tasks. A problem arises with storage of these stands when not in use, often leading to collection of a number of such stands at one end or corner of the salon thus detracting from the aesthetics and frequently invading the space of a stylists occupying the stat...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

"The fold away service tray is a collapsible frame and tray that can be easily stored when not in use. It is designed with crossed legs and a pivotally connected tray that allows for easy folding. The technical effect of this invention is a compact and convenient storage solution for service trays."

Problems solved by technology

A problem arises with storage of these stands when not in use, often leading to collection of a number of such stands at one end or corner of the salon thus detracting from the aesthetics and frequently invading the space of a stylists occupying the station where stored.

Such serving stands are relatively expensive to manufacture and require some degree of care in maintaining the latch and keeping it clear.

Furthermore, the requirement that the tray be removed for storage renders such a stand inconvenient to use in a styling salon in that the separation of the tray for collapsing would create a temptation for the stylists to store the tray separate from the stand so that, when the stand is to be subsequently erected, the tray must be retrieved and the stand manipulated about with two hands to deploy to its standing position for mounting of the tray thereon.

This task would be time consuming and would tend to discourage the stylists from using the stand itself.

Such a device suffers the shortcoming that deployment of the furniture piece requires some degree of dexterity for manipulation thereof and for locking the tray in its selected orientation.

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