Display assembly having a collapsible structural member

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION WITH A DISPLAY PANEL, OF A SUPPORT THEREFOR COMPRISING COLLAPSIBLE LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURAL MEMBER COMPRISING AN ELONGATED STRIP O MATERIAL HAVING A LONGITUDINAL FOLD LINE AND FACES AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID FOLD LINE WHICH ARE HINGEDLY MOVABLE UPON SAID FOLD LINE WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER BETWEEN COLLAPSED POSITIONS OF SUBSTANTIAL PARALLELISM AND ERECTED POSITIONS IN WHICH SAID FACES ARE AT AN ANGLE TO EACH OTHERM THE SAID FACES BEING RESPECTIVELY SUBDIVIDED BY ALIGNED TRANSVERSE FOLD LINES UPON WHICH THEY ARE FOLDABLE IN THEIR COLLAPSED POSITIONS OF PARALLELISM, BUT UPON WHICH THEY ARE NOT FOLDABLE WHEN ERECTED TO POSITIONS IN WHICH THEY ARE ANGULARLY RELATED TO EACH OTHER, AND MEANS CARRIED BY SAID STRIP FOR RENDERING SAID FACES SELF-ERECTING WHEN PORTIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE SAID FACES AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE RESPECTIVE FOLD LINES ARE ALIGNED, SAID MEANS COMPRISING A RUBBER BAND ENTIRELY EXTERNALLY ENCIRCILING SAID STRIP AND UNDER GREATER TENSION IN SAID COLLAPSED POSITION THAN IN SAID ERECTED POSITION FOR BIASING SAID FACES TOWARD THEIR ANGULARLY RELATED ERECTED POSITIONS, SAID MEANS BEING YIELDABLE TO ACCOMMODATE MOVEMENT OF SAID FACES TO THEIR COLLAPSED POSITIONS OF SUBSTANTIAL PARALLELISM, SAID FACES HAVING FLAPS, AND MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID FLAPS FOR MAINTAINING SAID FACES IN THE ANGULAR ERECTED POSITIONS TO WHICH THEY ARE BIASED BY SAID RUBBER BAND.