US897608A - Carton or display device. - Google Patents

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- PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

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APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1905.

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CARTON OR DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1905.

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APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 22. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK C. ELY, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FLORENCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

CARTON OR DISPLAY DEVICE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. ELY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Northampton, county of Hampshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Carton or Display Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Many small articles, such for example as tooth brushes, toilet articles and the like, are packed for delivery to the consumer in individual boxes. These boxes are attractively designed, colored and ornamented, and the display of them in show cases or in shop windows is an eflicient method of calling the attention of customers to the articles which are contained within the package as well as to their quality, merits, etc. In shipping the articles to the jobber or retailer, the manufacturer commonly places a dozen or some other desired number of the individual boxes in a carton which serves as a convenient package for a given number of the small boxes and to protect them in shipment. When, however the individual boxes are received by the retailer, the retailer takes them from the carton in order that they may be properly displayed and ordinarily the carton is laid aside or destroyed. If the carton is put aside the individual boxes are left wit iout protection and become defaced,

soiled, or impaired in appearance.

My invention affords a convenient carton or package which fully protects the individual boxes during shipment and while being stored, and which in the hands of the retailer serves to display the individual boxes to prospective purchasers in the most effective manner. My combined carton and display device also affords the individual boxes while being displayed protection from injury or defacement to which the goods Would be subj ected if the individual boxes were displayed loosely.

In the drawings, I have shown the invention applied to a series of long boxes such as are used for holding tooth brushes, but it will be apparent that the device may be varied according to the size, sha e and number of the individual packages w ich it is de sired to receive.

My invention will be fully understood Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 22, 1905.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Serial No. 275,291.

from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features thereof are pointed out and clearly defined in the claims at the close of this specification.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the package opened. Fig. 2 shows a package bent into a substantially circular shape to display the goods. Fig. 3 shows a package in form for mailing. Fig. 4 is a view of a box such as is used in connection with my improved mailing package. Fig. 5 shows a mailing package embodying my invention in a modified form, the said package being folded. for mailing. Fig. 6 shows this package opened for the reception of the small boxes.

Referring first to Fig. 1 there is there shown a. form of combined mailing package and display device adapted to hold a dozen individual boxes C. At A is indicated the main body portion of a sheet of card board or other suitable material from which my improved carton or display device is constructed. This sheet of card board A may be creased or scored at various places to facilitate bending where desired. Six of the twelve boxes which the carton is adapted to contain are placed on one side, and six on the other side of a space K, which is left at approximately the middle of the sheet of card board A. This space K is substantially twice the thickness of the boxes C and permits the two halves of the carton and the boxes placed on the said two halves to be folded over onto each other into the position shown in Fig. 3 without the boxes interfering with each other. When in its folded position the cor responding boxes in the two spaces on each side of the space K are in registration with each other and the portion K of the backing forms the end of the carton. At one end of the sheet of card board A is left a projecting flap which when the device is in its closed condition lies against the end of the boxes on both rows. At the other end of the sheet of card board A is formed another flap H which is made long enough to fold around the edge of the package and is provided with a tongue I adapted to be inserted in the slit J as shown in- Fig. 3, and to hold the whole firmly together sothat the carton may be-readily handled. The flap G just referred to serves also to stiffen the mailing package while the flap H secures the whole together, and also has a further use which will be described later.

The various individual boxes C are attached by any convenient means to the sheet of card board orbacking A when in use. For the purpose of securing the boxes to the sheet of card board A, I find it convenient to form tongues or tucks B on each side of the said sheet of card board A. These tongues or tucks are slightly tapering to facilitate their use. When in use the tongues B, B, are folded over the ends of the boxes C and tucked under the upper wall D of the box, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The construction of one of these boxes 0 is seen in Fig. 4.. If desirable, the tongues B B may be scored to facilitate their bending about the box as shown at E and F. It is apparent that the size and shape of the tongues will vary according to the size of the boxes for which the carton is designed. Other means of attaching the individual boxes to the backing composing the body of the carton may be employed if desired.

When the device is used to display the contents thereof, it may be hung u on a nail by the tongue I so that the indivic ual boxes are displayed to the public, the parts being then in substantially the position shown in Fig. 1.

It is customary to print upon the boxes C advertising matter descriptive of.thc nature of the goods contained in the boxes. As heretofore stated, I find it convenient to print also upon each space occupied by a box O on the card A the same matter as is printed upon the corresponding face of the box, so that when a box is sold from the mailing package or display card the printing on the card A comes into view and the package still appears to be full. Of course other advertising matter may be placed upon the card if desired.

If desired to display the package on the counter, it is only necessary to bend the mailing package in the opposite direction to that shown in Fig. 3 and to tuck the flap G into the crevice between the end box B and the card board sheet A. It then assumes a somewhat cylindrical form, as shown in Fig. 2, and rests firmly upon the base formed by the ends of the box and the edge of the card board sheet A. The boxes may be easily removed from the holder when in this form.

When it is desired to, provide a carton for a less number of individual boxes than. a dozen, I form the carton and display device after the manner shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In this form the boxes are attached to a card L by tongues M M as in the previously described form of my invention. At one end of the card L I provide a flap N of the width equal to the thickness of one box and at the other end a covering portion 0- long enough to fold over all the boxes. At theother end of this portion 0 is a flap P and tongue Q for insertion in a slit R, in the manner already described. This package containing six boxes may be hung up for display by the tongue Q and may be rinted with advertising matter behind the Boxes as previously described. The portion 0 affords an additional place for advertising matter.

It is to be noted that when the package is in its closed condition it forms substantially a box and the contents of the same are wholly protected. The display package may also be made up in other shapes to contain a greater or less number of boxes if desired.

What I claim is;

1. 'The combined carton and display device for individual boxes comprising a sheet of cardboard upon the main portion of which the boxes are to be disposed. in groups, the space between the said groups being substantially equal to the combined thickness of as many of said boxes as there are groups, the said sheet being provided with a plurality of tongues on each side equal in number to the number of boxes which the display device is adapted to hold, and of greater length than the thickness of said individual boxes so as to overlap the end of the box and enter a pocket in the box, a flap at one end of the sheet adapted to be folded over the thickness of the boxes when the several groups are folded together and means whereby when the sheet is folded and the several groups of boxes are folded together, the said flap may be engaged with the opposite end of the sheet.

2. The combined carton and display device for individual boxes comprising a sheet of cardboard upon the main ortion of which the boxes are to. be disposed in groups, the space between said groups being substantially e ual to the combined thickness of as many 0 said boxes as there are grou s, a crease in said cardboard at each side 0 said space between the groups, the said sheet be- 1 ed there will be no side projections, a fiap on one end of the body of the card adapted to be folded up against the sides of the boxes when the display device is folded and contains boxes, and a. flap at the opposite end of the sheet having a transverse crease along the line of the box next that end whereby said sheet may be folded over the side of the group of boxes and means whereby said flap may be engaged with the overlapping flap at the other end of thesheet.

3. A combined carton and display device for individual boxes comprising a sheet of cardboard upon the main portion of which the boxes are to be disposed in groups, the

space between said groups being substantially equal to the combined thickness of as many of said boxes as there are groups, the said sheet being provided with a plurality of tongues on each side equal in number to the number of boxes which the display device is adapted to hold, in combination with a plurality of individual boxes disposed transversely of the sheet which forms the display device, said boxes bein equal in length to the width of the body of the sheet, each box being in alinement with two of said oppositely disposed tongues and secured to the body of the sheet by the tongues being tucked into the ends of the boxes.

4. A combined carton and display device for individual boxes comprising a sheet of cardboard upon the main portion of which the boxes are to be disposed in groups, the space between said groups being substantially equal to the combined thickness of as many of said boxes as there are groups, the I said sheet being provided with a plurality of tongues on each side equal in number to the number of boxes which the display device is adapted to hold, in combination with a plurality of individual boxes disposed transversely of the sheet which forms the dis lay device, said boxes bein equal in lengt to the'width of the body 0 the sheet, each box being in alinement with two of said oppositely disposed tongues and secured to the body of the sheet by the tongues being tucked into the ends of the boxes, said sheet being provided with a flap at one end and means whereby when the sheet is folded and the several groups of boxes are folded together, the said flap may be engaged with the opposite end of the sheet.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

FREDERICK O. ELY.

Witnesses MABEL A. YEATMAN, W, CORDES.

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