Multi-shelf display stand

Claim 1

A multi-shelf, vertical display stand, formed of a unitary tube of foldable paperboard, comprising: (a) a rear wall having a primary panel and a relatively narrow panel adapted to be secured to said primary panel in overlapping relation to form a unitary tube; (b) a pair of opposed side walls foldably joined at their rear edges to opposed side edges of said rear wall and extending forwardly therefrom; (c) each of said side walls presenting a plurality of sloping edges; (d) a plurality of shelf panels extending normally between said side walls, said shelf-panels having a depth substantially equal to the width of said side walls, each of said shelf panels having a rearwardly extending projection adapted to be received within respective slots disposed in said rear wall; (e) gusset means foldably joining opposed ends of each of said shelf panels to adjacent sloping edges of respective side walls; (f) each of said gusset means including a pair of generally triangular gusset elements foldably joined to each other along a common fold line and being adapted to fold inwardly therealong to lie in the plane of said side walls with: (i) one of said gusset elements being foldably joined along a first diagonal fold line to an adjacent sloping edge of a related side wall and disposed in face to face relation therewith; (ii) the other of said gusset elements being formed from material of a related shelf panel and being foldably joined thereto along a second diagonal fold line to accommodate the erection of said display stand from said tube.