Card display device

Claim 1

A one-piece, collapsible device for holding greeting cards to provide a tree-like display, comprising: a one-piece, self-supporting, hollow body portion having four triangularly-shaped sidewalls and no bottom wall, said sidewalls being joined to one another along their lateral margins to impart a pyramidal configuration to the body portion when it is in an upright, non-collapsed position, the base or lower margin of each of the sidewalls being adapted to rest on a supporting surface and to maintain the body portion in an upright, non-callapsed position, said body portion being collapsible into a non-card supporting condition along any opposed two of said lateral margins to bring the two sidewalls on each side of said two opposed margins into flattened, overlying relation with respect to one another, a plurality of spaced, inwardly and upwardly extending slots formed in the sidewalls along the lateral margins thereof, the slots in each of the sidewalls intersecting at their outermost end the slots formed in the next adjacent sidewalls to provide continuous slots extending from one sidewall to the next adjacent sidewall through the lateral margins thereof, and a transverse fold line formed in each sidewall between the base and the upper end or apex thereof, said transverse fold line being positioned at the same level in each sidewall and intersecting the inner end of two laterally opposed slots formed along the lateral margins of the same sidewall, the fold lines and the slots intersected thereby of any two adjacent sidewalls enabling the area of said two sidewalls above the fold lines to be folded into overlying relation with respect to area thereof below the fold lines when the body portion is in its collapsed, non-card supporting condition.