Display strip with non-hanging product attachment

Abstract

A point of purchase display strip formed from a single sheet has unitary product attachment features that support the products from their undersides as well as wrap around edges of the products to retain them to the display strip without suspending them. The attachment features may include arch shaped flaps that are arranged in sets to capture the top and bottom edges of a product or two or more corners of a product. The attachment features may also include a single ledge near the bottom of the strip that supports stacked products retained at their side edges by vertically extending straight or bent flaps. The attachment features can be arranged to support and retain products at both front and back faces of the display strip.

1 . A product display strip comprising a single elongated sheet extending from a top end to a bottom end and having a plurality of slits defining at least one product rest for supporting at least one product from an underside and defining at least one non-hanging product retainer for contacting without suspending the at least one product at a portion other than its underside so as to resist separation of the at least one product from the sheet.  
   
   
       2 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the product retainer contacts a top side of the at least one product.  
   
   
       3 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the product retainer contacts a side edge extending between the underside and a top side of the at least one product.  
   
   
       4 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the display strip has a front face and a back face and wherein there is at least one product rest and at least one product retainer at each of the front and back faces.  
   
   
       5 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the slits define matched sets of product rests and product retainers.  
   
   
       6 . The display strip of  claim 5 , wherein the sets are spaced apart along the strip in the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet.  
   
   
       7 . The display strip of  claim 5 , wherein each of the sets includes one product rest and one product retainer located on the sheet closer to the top end than the product rest.  
   
   
       8 . The display strip of  claim 7 , wherein the product rest and the product retainer of each set pivot away from a same face of the sheet in opposite directions.  
   
   
       9 . The display strip of  claim 8 , wherein each product rest and product retainer is arch shaped.  
   
   
       10 . The display strip of  claim 8 , wherein each product rest is hinged to the sheet essentially parallel with each product retainer.  
   
   
       11 . The display strip of  claim 10 , wherein each product rest is oriented essentially perpendicular to the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet.  
   
   
       12 . The display strip of  claim 11 , wherein each product rest is oriented at an oblique angle to the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet.  
   
   
       13 . The display strip of  claim 1 , having a single product rest proximate the bottom end of the sheet and multiple of the product retainers spaced between the rest and the top end of the sheet such that multiple of the products can be stacked one on top of another and supported by the product rest and retained by the product retainers.  
   
   
       14 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one product rest and the at least one product retainer are each hinged to the sheet along at least one edge so that they can be pivoted with respect to the sheet.  
   
   
       15 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one product rest and the at least one product retainer are the same shape.  
   
   
       16 . The display strip of  claim 15 , wherein the at least one product rest and the at least one product retainer are arch shaped.  
   
   
       17 . The display strip of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one product rest is oriented essentially perpendicular to the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet.  
   
   
       18 . The display strip of  claim 17 , wherein the at least one product retainer is oriented to extend essentially in the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet.  
   
   
       19 . The display strip of  claim 18 , wherein the at least one product retainer includes two flaps spaced apart in the direction perpendicular to the direction between the top and bottom ends of the sheet  
   
   
       20 . The display strip of  claim 19 , wherein the spaced apart flaps are bent to define two inwardly opening channels receiving the at least one product therebetween.