Patent ID: 8651296

Claim:
A freestanding display rack for supporting and displaying product at a point of sale, the display rack comprising: a pair of spaced apart side panels each having an outer surface, and an inner surface facing an opposite side panel, wherein each of the side panels comprises multi-ply sheets of the fiber-based material laminated together, including an imperforate outer sheet, a second sheet adjacent the outer sheet and having a plurality of first slots extending into the sheet from a forward edge thereof, and third and fourth sheets having a plurality of second slots extending into the sheet from a forward edge thereof in positions so that upper edges of the second slots are in aligned registry with upper edges of the first slots, and the first slots have a greater width between top and bottom edges thereof than the width of the second slots, whereby the slots form the channels; a plurality of shelves extending between and supported at their opposite ends on the side panels by mechanical interlocking means engaged between the shelves and the side panels, the mechanical interlocking comprising channels formed in the inner surface of each the side panel, and depending flanges on opposite side edges of each the shelf engaged in a respective channel wherein the shelves are made of multi-ply sheets of recyclable fiber-based material laminated together; and a graphics header extending above the shelves and side panels.