FOLDABLE AND SELF-ERECTING DISPLAY STAND AND EASEL

摘要

A foldable and self-erecting display stand (10) has an easel(11) mounted at the rear surface of a large planar board (12). The planar board and the easel are together foldable along a plurality of horizontal fold lines(18, 19, 20) to a compact collapsed state. The easel has a U-shaped horizontal cross section and two mutually parallel triangular side walls(15, 16). A plurality of pivotable cross braces(21, 22, 23) extend in a canti-lever manner from a body board (24) of the easel. A plurality of elastic cords (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33) are mounted between the cross braces and the side walls of the easel. The side walls of the easel are foldable to a collapsed position juxtaposed to the planar board against the elastic force of the elastic cords for folding the display stand to the collapsed state. The elastic cords are in a stretched condition when the display stand in the collapsed state, and the cross braces cooperate with the stretched elastic cords to self-erecting the display stand from the collapsed state to the erected state.