US1641709A

US1641709A - Combination packing and display box

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Publication number: US1641709A
Application number: US134386A
Authority: US
Inventors: William D Tam
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-09-09
Filing date: 1926-09-09
Publication date: 1927-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1944-09-06

Description

' 7 1,641,709 Sept. 6, 1927. D. TAM

COMBINATION PACKING AND DISPLAY BOX Filed Sept. 9. 1926 Fig. I

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Patented Sept. 6, 1927.

barren stares ranges WILLIAIVIVID. TAM, on JACKSON, CALIFORNIA.

' oo linixerron PACKING AND nrsrLnY Box.

Application filed September 9, 1926. Serial No. 134,386.

This invention relates to improvements in box construction, my principal object being to providea box in which the goods may be both'packed for shipment and storage and subsequently displayed without removing the goods or the cover from the box.

T have particularly in mind to provide a box for packing and displaying mens shirts and the like, a number of which of different designs are customarily packed in superimposed order in cardboard boxes. With the type of box usually employed it is necessary when showing the shirts to a prospective customer, to take the lid off the box and remove the shirts one by one or fold them back individually so that all the shirt designs can be seen. This of course not only consumes time but renders the shirts liable to become soiled or otherwise damaged by the unavoidable handling thereof.

My improved box eliminates the above 0bjectionable features as will be evident from an inspection of the drawings and a perusal of the following specification.

A further object of my invention is to provide a box for the purpose in which the display feature may be incorporated in a box of the ordinary construction without necessitating any radical changes being made in such construction.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a perspective elevation of my improved box. 7

Fig. 2 is a. cross section of the boxlook ing toward the window end thereof.

Referring now more particularly'to the characters of reference on the drawings, the box, of suitable rectangular form and size for its purpose, has side and

end walls

1 and 2 respectively. The box is covered by a removable lid 3 which has flanges 4 overlapping the sides and ends of the box. One end wall of the box is out out for the major portion of its area to form a window 5, which is covered by a 'pane6 of substantial celluloid or similar transparent material. In shirt boxes the lid flanges are usually somewhat deep, and I therefore cut away a portion of an end flange of the lid, as at'7, so that said flange will not overhang and partly cover the window. This, however, is

of course not necessary if the lid flanges are initially made shallow. l/Vhen packing shirts in such boxes it is customary to fold the shirts transversely intermediate their ends and insert them in the box in superimposed order with the fold adjacent one endwall as indicated at 9. lVith my improved box the shirts are placed in this order and so that the fold faces the window. In this manner the designof the shirt goods is visible through the window, the depthof which is sufiicient to enable all shirts to be seen from outside the box, as indicated in Fig.

1. It will therefore be seen that removing and handling of the shirts, in order to give the prospective customer an idea of the designs or patterns of the shirt goods, is unnecessary with my improved box.

There are various ways in which the cellu- 1':- loid pane may be mounted in place. I prefer, however, to make use of certain stand ard features of box construction for holding and locating this pane.- In such boxes as ordinarily constructed the sides and bottom pieces of the box have flaps 8 at their ends, which are turned into receive the end wall 2 of the box thereagainst. This end wall is a separate piece and is glued to the flaps. I cut the window throughsaid end wall so that its edges practically aline with the inner edges of the flaps. I then utilize a portion of the space between the flaps and are readily discernible, The goods can therefore be gone over for any purpose, selected or readily inventoried without the necessity of taking down and'opening the boxes.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

WVhile this specification, setsforth in de tail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A combination shipping and display box comprising side, bottom and end members, the side and bottom members having inturned flaps to which the ends are secured, one end being cut out to form a window, the edges of the window substantially alining with the inner edges of the flaps, and a transparent pane interposed and secured between the'fiaps and the edges of the cut-out end.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM D. TAM.