Patent ID: 7219871

Claim:
An easel for holding flat display objects such as cards, placards, photos and other like flat objects, said easel comprising: a square-shaped body formed from flexible material; a plurality of fold lines drawn on said body wherein each of said fold lines defines an axis of rotation, said fold lines including solid fold lines and dotted fold lines respectively marked on said body; a plurality of surface weaknesses scored on said body, wherein said surface weakness are scored along a top surface of said body for said solid fold lines, said surface weakness being scored along an underside surface of said body for said dotted fold lines; and said body being folded in a first direction about said solid fold lines and further being folded in a second direction about said dotted fold lines, wherein said solid fold lines create convex relationships among adjacent top surface planes of said body and said dotted fold lines create concave relationships among the adjacent top surface planes of said body; wherein said body is adapted from a two dimensional arrangement to a three dimensional arrangement when a user applies downward pressure to selected portions of said body; wherein said body further comprises a plurality of contiguous planes constructed on said body by folding selected ones of said fold lines; a plurality of bases constructed on said body by folding other ones of said fold lines; two perpendicular ones of said solid fold lines that intersect at a center of said body, each of said perpendicular solid fold lines bisecting at opposing sides of said body; and a first plurality of said dotted fold lines extending across said body from one of said body sides to another one of said body sides, said first plurality of dotted fold lines being positioned a first distance measured from selected ones of said bisections of said perpendicular solid fold lines, said first distance being equal to a product of .0625 and a length of a side of said body.