US1697878A - Card mount or package - Google Patents

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Jan. 8, 1929.

W. P. MILLS CARD MOUNT OR PACKAGE Filed March 14, 1927 J A i a F W1 4. 5? 1 l L'Ilny'i'? b Indenior:

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Patented Jan. 8, 1929.

UNETE STATES WILLIAM PERCY MILLS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MOORE PUSH-TEEN COMPANY, PENNSYLVANIA.

0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF CARD MOUNT OR PACKAGE.

Application filed Mei-ch14, 1927. Serial No. 175,132.

My invention relates to card mounts of a type desi ned to support vendible units and to provide as a whole a vendib-le article or package. 7

Specifically, my invention comprises a card mount or package which may be of suitable material, such as light pasteboard,cardboard and the like, sheet metal, or any similar or suitable material, from which tabs may be struck up so as to project from the face of the card such tabs providing supports for small articles having insertible fastening means, and in the present instance I have shown these tabs as providing supports for screw hooks.

A further object of my invention is to provide these tabs with slits to facilitate the insertion of a portion of the objects to be supported, and when such projecting portions are threaded the material adjacent to the slits will be bent down upon insertion of the threaded members and by engaging the threads will serve to retain the screw hooks or any similarly threaded article against accidental displacement.

The integral tabs may be formed by making cuts in the card of the shape, semi-circular or otherwise, that the tabs are to have. In pressing up these tabs from the card, apertures are provided which serve a purpose hereinafter described.

These and other features of my invention are more fully described hereinafter; reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective View of a card showing the manner of preparing the same to provide the desired tabs, and showing the latter engaged by the articles to be supported by the card.

Fig. 2, is a sectional view of the card taken on the line II-II, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is an end view of a portion of the card showing an article supported thereby, and

Fig. 4, is a sectional elevation of a portion of the card takenthrough one of the tabs and showing an article in position.

p In the drawings, 1 represents a card of suitable material, cardboard, tough pasteboard, metal, or the like,which card may be provided with a series of cuts as indicated at 2, which may be substantially semi-circular in contour or outline, or of any other suitable shape. The cuts so formed provide tabs or projections 1 which may be pressed up from the body of the card, and stand out sub stantially at right angles thereto, as indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. I

Simultaneously with the formation of the cuts 2, or subsequently ifdesired, other cuts or slits are formed in that portion of the car providing the tabs directly adjacent to or substantially in that portion of the same which will constitute the fold, indicated at a, when said tabs are bent over; such slits being indicated at 3. In some instances additional slits 3 inay be formed in the'tabs at right angles to the slits 3. I

The presence of the slits3, with or: without the additional slits 3, facilitates the insertion of the articles to be supported by the tabs of the card. In the present instance these articles comprise so-called screw hooks,

consisting of a hook portion A, a screw portion a, and a so-called cup 6, which serves as a finish for such screw hooks when the same are 1n use.

It will be noted, therefore, that when the screw portion is pushed through'the slitted part of the tab, portions of the body of the same adjacent to the slits 8, will be pressed to one side, as indicated at 1, Figs. 1 and 3, and will form projections adapted to be engaged by the threadsfof the screw portions of the hooks; thereby preventing accidental displacement or removal of the same. The position of the slit 3, with respect to the surface of the card, is such that the hooks will lie in close engagement therewith, while portions of the cups 6 of said hooks will accom modate themselves in the apertures 2 which are produced when the tabs are pressed up from the card.

Ir. practice, the tabs 1' are pressed up to the position indicated in the several views of the drawing, and then the operator takes the screw hooks andafter applying the pointed end of the screw portions a, to the slitted portion, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, presses the same through the slit 3 of the tab until the cup portion 6 is in engagement with the tab.

The action of pushingthe screw portion through the slit presses the edges or walls of the same to one side and forms projections 1 which lie in threaded engagement with the screw portion of the hook; providing ample frictional engagement to prevent accidental removal from the card, yet not preventing removal when it is desired to use one ofsaid screw hooks. When the tabs 1 are pressed up from the card, apertures 2 are provided which accommodate portions of the cups 7) of the screw hooks, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and these tabs are of such size relatively to the cups, that when the hooks lie against the face of the card, that portion of the cups exposedon the face of the card will lie within the margin of said tabs.

' The card package for screw hooks which I have devised is neat and compact and makes.

a highly'satisfactory article of merchandise which can be readily marketed. The hooks may be applied in the factory or other point of'assembly and the card package as a whole shipped to distributors. Cards of a single type may be employed for hooks to different sizes; all o'fthose on one card being or" the same size, or hooks of different sizes may beapplied to a single card. While the tabs are shown in rows, spaced substantially equidistant, any arrangement of the tabs which may be of any suitablesize relatively to the card, is within the scope ofmy invention.

I claim:

1. In a card package, the combination of a card having a plurality of integral tabs projecting from the face of the same; said, tabs having a plurality of slits some of which are at an angle to the folded connections of said tabs with the card adapted to receive screw members inserted through the slits of said tabs; the-opposite sides of certain slitted por said tabs having'a plurality of slits substantially paralleling and at an angle to their folded connections with the card adapted to receive screw members inserted through the intersection of the slits of said tabs; the opposite sides of the slitted portions lying in threaded engagement with the screwmembers when assembled.

In witness whereof I have signed this specificati on.

WM. PERCY MILLS.

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