Plastic display box including an easel panel and foldable blank

A fold up literature display box comprising:

• a continuous array of injection molded planar plastic panels, said array including:
• a bottom panel, a back panel hingedly connected to the back edge of said bottom panel along a first fold line, a front panel hingedly connected to the front edge of said bottom panel along a second fold line, side panels hingedly connected to the sides of said front panel and including distal edge portions, means to secure said distal edge portions of said side panels to the edges of said back panel when the box is folded and assembled, and a hinged easel panel comprising a proximal portion which in a first position is in the plane of said back panel and which in a second position extends at an angle rearwardly of said back panel and can be locked in position to support said box in an upright position, said proximal portion being hinged at its top to said back panel and at its bottom along a third fold line to a distal portion of said easel panel, said distal portion comprising a removable portion of said bottom panel which in a first position is in the plane of said bottom panel and which can be removed from said bottom panel and in a second position can be locked to the bottom of said back panel to form a triangular support holding said box in an upright position, locking means for locking said distal portion to the bottom of said back panel, said locking means including a pair of oppositely opening notches formed in said distal portion and a cooperating pair of notches opening toward each other formed in the back panel wherein said distal portion includes oppositely tapered edges engageable in the notches of the back panel to guide the notches in the distal portion into engagement with the notches in the back panel wherein said third fold line is colinear with said first fold line in said first position of said proximal panel and in said second position of said proximal panel is so located in relation to said first and second fold lines as to allow all of said first, second and third fold lines to rest on an associated support surface to provide the display box with substantial stability.

A blank which is foldable into a literature display box comprising a continuous array of injection molded planar plastic panels each connected along miter lines comprising a bottom panel joined along a first transverse fold line to a back panel and along a second transverse fold line to a front panel, the front panel being joined to a pair of opposing side panels along third and fourth fold lines, said side panels having distal edges, fastener means for securing said distal edges of said side panels to the back panel, and an easel panel connected with the back panel along a fifth fold line parallel to the first fold line, the easel panel spanning the first fold line and wherein the easel panel has a proximal portion and a distal portion remote from the fifth fold line and connecting means for connecting the distal end portion of the easel panel with the back panel proximate the first fold line, wherein the easel panel includes a sixth fold line defining proximal and distal portions of the easel panel, and the fifth and sixth fold lines and the connecting means are positioned and proportioned so that when the blank is assembled into a box and the distal end portion of the easel panel is connected with the back panel proximate the first fold line, the distal portion of the easel panel is substantially coplanar with the bottom panel, wherein said distal portion has tapered side edges which taper towards said proximal portion, and wherein said distal portion needs to be arched in order to allow said connecting means to secure said distal portion to said back panel, and wherein the back panel is generally planar and has opposing planar faces.