Display stand

Claim 1

A display stand including integral base and header members formed from a unitary blank of foldable sheet material such as paperboard, comprising: (a) a header member including a vertically disposed display panel having a pair of support flanges foldably joined to opposite side edges thereof and disposed to extend rearwardly from said panel for support thereof; (b) said panel presenting, adjacent a lower end thereof a retaining slot extending therethrough; (c) a base member including a rear wall, a top wall, and a front wall foldably joined to form a box-like structure; (d) said base member rear wall being foldably joined at a lower edge to a lower edge of said display panel and folded to lie in face-to-face engagement with a front surface of said display panel; (e) said base member rear wall including a retaining flap cut from material thereof, folded thereto at an upper edge thereof, and disposed to extend through said display panel retaining slot to provide interlocking engagement therebetween; (f) said base member rear wall having foldably joined to opposite ends thereof a pair of intermediate end flaps; (g) said base member front wall having foldably joined to opposite ends thereof a pair of outer end flaps; (h) each of said outer end flaps having foldably joined to a lower edge thereof an inner end flap; (i) each of said base member intermediate end flaps being sandwiched between a related pair of inner and outer end flaps.