Display stand

Claim 1

A display stand having a completely finished outer surface and consisting of a plurality of components prepared from separate blanks of material such as paperboard that are folded, arranged and secured to one another to result in a single integral unit for shipment to the user, said display stand when set up having an open frontal portion formed by a back panel, a pair of side walls foldably attached thereto and arranged at right angles to said back panel, a plurality of shelf panels each secured to said back panel along one edge thereof, and a plurality of shelf support elements locked in position between the side walls and arranged to lie beneath each individual shelf panel, the improvement wherein: a. said back panel is of double wall construction and consists of a full sized inside back wall panel and a pair of left and right half-sized outside back wall panels which are adhered to the back of said inside back wall panel, each half-sized back wall panel including a pair of articulated inside side wall panels foldably attached along one edge thereof which are folded over about their articulated joint and adhered to onE another to form a pair of side wall core elements; b. said side walls are of quadruple wall construction and each consists of a pair of left and right two part outside side wall panels which are folded around and adhered to a side wall core element, said outside side wall panels further including abbreviated flaps at the upper and lower ends thereof which are folded inside and adhered to the side wall panels to form finished upper and lower edges for said side walls; c. said shelf panels are of multiple wall construction and consist individually of a two-piece core element adhered together and an outside shelf panel structure, said outside shelf panel structure including a pair of upper and lower shelf panels which are folded around and adhered to each core element, a riser panel foldably attached to said upper shelf panel and a flap member foldably attached to said riser panel, said multiple wall shelf panels each being attached to the front of said inside back panel only along said flap member; and, d. means is provided in said quadruple wall side walls for accepting and retaining the shelf support elements in different positions for adjusting the angularity of the multiple wall shelf panels while the lower shelf panel of each multiple wall shelf panel abuts against the inside back panel forcing the riser panel into its proper position when the angulation of the shelves is changed.