US1662899A - Combined container and toy stage - Google Patents

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' March 20, 1928.

A. O. RIDGWAY ET AL COMBINED CONTAINER AND TOY STAGE Filed May 10, 1926 WW ww Fom A LM/ Y0K F N T A. m

A T'I'ORMT Y 35 the pictorial representation of the Patented Mar. 20, 1 928.

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED O. BIDGWAY LAND ALLAN FRALICK, OFLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

comma!) CONTAINER am) T OY STAGE.

Application filed May 10,

and a wall is out along indicated lines the empty container will forma miniature theatrical'stage adapted foramusement purposes.

- Briefly, the invention here shown consists in employing a paper box designed to hold dry food products such as cereals, the interior surface of one of the side walls being 1 provided with a ictorial representation of a scene from a p ay or motion picture, its oppositely disposed side wall being cut away along certain indicated linesto form the representation off); stage proscenium and the remaining portion. of said wall containing pictorial representations of the actors designed to be out out for placement'upon the floor of the miniature stage formed from the food container.

In an embodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of. a paper container in a sealed form.

Fig. '2 is a similar view showing the container formed into a miniature toy stage. I Fig. 3 is a partial cross'sectionalview of 'the container showinga cut-away wall and actors of the has been formed designed to be cut therefrom.-

Fig. 4 isa partial front elevation contai'ner'after the same into a toy stage.

4 Referring now more specifically to the accompanying drawing 5 designates a rec tangular pasteboard container consistingof apluralityof walls 7, 8, 9, 10,11, and 12, secured together inthe usual manner. Wall ?.11 on its exterior surface adjacent three of its edges is provided with dotted guide lines -13 to indicate the manner in which the cuts are made to form the "miniature stage out of the container when emptied.- When the 9 wall has been out along the guide lines 13, Y

the long narrow strips 14, 15, 16,. are turned at substantially ri htangles to the walls 7, 8, and 9 'to formt e proscenium of the-toy half of the 'play advertised but the 'manu 1926. serial no. 107,859.

stage, the vertical strips 14 and 16 being suitably engraved to form stage curtains drawn .apart, while the horizontally dis posed strip 15 is also engraved to represent hanging curtains. The larger portion 17 of wall 11 has printed or engraved upon its interior surface a number of figures 18 representing the actors in the play, said figures adapted to be cut out and the bases 19 bent along the dotted indicating line 20, to form supports for the figures when mounted on the stage floor 10.

. On the interior surface of wall '12 of the container is printed the pictorial representation of a scene from a motion picture play, or stage production, while the mterior surface ofthe wall 10 which is intended to represent the floor of'the stage may be tinted or printed in a color similar tothe ground shown in the scene. Y

Further, the illustration on the wall may represent an actual scene from a'motion pic-- ture production not yet released, and the figures depicted on the wall 11 ma be actual photographic reproductions of the players in the represented production .in costume. Also in order to increase interest the bases 19 of the figures maybe suitably inscribedwith the name of the player as 'well as the production on'the paneled space directly. above the players, a short synopsis of the production as represented by the pictorial '3 scene andplayers may beprinted. r

' The containers, as; heretofore noted," are especially adapted for -holdin dry food ,7 products, such as corn flakes, ca es, candies, dried'frui'ts, in factjany commodity that 90 will not injure the interior surface of the. container.

From the above description it will be apparent that wehave provided a toy-that will furnish considerable amusement to Q5 small children at practically no cost; Further, by depicting scenes from popular motion picture plays, its valueas an advertising medium will be obvious, not only on befacturers' of the commodity contained in the box.

What we claim is: In a toy stage, a rectangular container tor commodities formed from a flexible matemal. 105 having on one of its lnter or wallsa phetographic orengraved reproduction from the mounting upon, the wall forming the stage scene of atheatrical play, its oppositely dis- -floor. V

.posedvwall adapted to be cut away along in- In witness that we claim the foregoing we 19 dicated lines on its'outer surface to disclose have hereuntosubscribedour names this 8th 5 the scene and form a miniature stage, said day of April, 1926.

last named wall being provided with printed 4 ALFRED O. RIDGWAY. figures adapted -to he out therefrom for ALLAN FRALICK.

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