US1827029A

US1827029A - Wax paper package

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Publication number: US1827029A
Application number: US338143A
Authority: US
Inventors: Marcalus Nicholas
Original assignee: AUTOMATIC PAPER MACHINERY CO I
Current assignee: AUTOMATIC PAPER MACHINERY CO I; AUTOMATIC PAPER MACHINERY Co Inc
Priority date: 1929-02-07
Filing date: 1929-02-07
Publication date: 1931-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1948-10-13

Description

Oct. 13, 1931. N. MARcALUs w'Ax PAPER PAQKAGE Filed Feb. 7, 1929 lNvN oR ,u ATTORNEYS hama occ. 1s, A1931 UNITED sTATEsPATr-.NT OFFICE NIOHOLAS HABCALUS, Ol' LYNBBOOK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO AUTOMATIC IAPER MACHINERY CO., INC., A CORPORATION F NEW I'IILRSIEE` 'WAX PAPER PACKAGE application mea February 7, 1929. seria; no. 338,143.

This invention relates to boxes or dispensf ing packages for rolls of paper, and has for its object to make certain improvements in the box described in'my Patent No. 1,630,495; That box is a relatively long card-board container designed to enclose a roll of paper, the free edge ofthe front wall lbeing provided with a metal strip having a serrated cutting or tearing edge. The paper is drawn from the roll while the latter is held in the box, and

' torn along the serrated edge when the desired length has been unrolled. During this operation the top of the box is preferably closed with its iiap tucked behind the front wall, the latter with the flap forming a guideway for the paper. In order vto facilitate the unrolling of subsequent sheets the flap, the cover and the front wall below the metal strip .are provided with openings enabling the user to grasp the forward end of the paper with thumb and foreinger and thus start the unrolling operation.

In shipping such a box with its contained roll, the cover Hap is placed outside, and over the serrated edge for the purpose of protecting the latter, and then some sealing means employed. Thus, when the user,commonly a housewife, receives the package itv is not in readiness for use. She must break the seal, open the box, withdraw a short length .of paper and then insert the flap behind the paper which she has just withdrawn. This 1s a simple thing to do, it is true, but it would be preferable to sell the package with the paper in position for immediate withdrawal. In accordance with the resent invention the cover Hap is placed behind the front wall at the factory and the forward end of the paper placed between the two so that the purchaser perceives at once the manner in which the paper is to be withdrawn. As the package is thus shipped with the serrated metal edge exposed I place it for protection slightly below the plane of the cover when the latter is in closed position. The ends of the cover are extended a fraction of an inch so that they overlie the ends when the cover is closed and thus make it dilicult to depress the cover below the level of the serrated edge when the paper roll no longer iills the box. As a further protcctionfor the cuttin edge I prefer to fold the forward end of t e paper down over the metal.

, I have also invented improved means for holding the box closed during transportation Without the use of a seal. Instead of removing the card-board from the finger opening in the cover, I score in outline the part to be removed from the cover and provide the part to be removed from the Hap with two laterally extending tongues which are inserted through the opening in the front wall and thus hold the cover snugly in place. It is then a simple matter to open the box, tear out the tab or tuck piece and proceed to withdraw the paper.

When the box is in use it is necesasry that fthe cover remain closed with its 'lap behind the front wall of the box. After the removal of the tuck there is a tendency for the cover to spring open and remain so, making it necessary for the user to reinsert the flap behind the front wall whenever paper is to be withdrawn. In accordance with the present invention I therefore half cut the card-board along the back end of the cover to minimize the spring of the cover and lcause it to remain closed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of my in1 vention. In these drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box made in accordance with the present invention, showing the box filled with paper and closed and ready for shipment;

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional detail through the tuck taken along line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the empty box with the cover 1n hallc open position;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective of the box showing the tuck removed and the parts in position` for dispensing paper;

Figure 5 is a transverse section takenl along line 5--5 of Figure 4, and

Figure 6 is a sectional detail taken along line 6-6 of Figure 1 showing a projecting end of the cover.

The box illustrated is an elongated rectangular card-board box substantially square in cross-section and desi ed to hold a roll of paper, such as a roll o waxed paper, commonly used by housewives for wrapping f ood. The front wall l of thisv box 1s provided along its upper edge with a metallic strip 2 having a serrated cutting edge .3. The upper edge of the front wall l is sllghtly below the level of the top of the box and the serrated cutting edge 3 also terminates Just below the level of the cover 4, so that when the box is closed, as illustrated in Figures t and 6, the cutting edge does not pro'ect above the to of the box. When the ox holds a comp ete roll, the roll itself may prevent the cover from being pushed down below the cutting edge, but as the paper is unrolled this is no longer true, and l therefore extend the ends of the cover, as at 5, so that they project slightly beyond the ends of the box, as illustrated most clearly in Figure 6. These projecting ends normally keep the cover above the cutting edge and therefore protect it during shipment, and also make it unlikely that the user of the box shall be scratched by the metallic points of the cutting edge.

The cover is provided with a downwardly extending flap 6 designed to lie behind the front wall during use, the flap and the front wall constituting a guide for the paper 7. ln order that the package may be shipped with the parts in operative relation, l cut from the flap a tab, or tuck 8, provided with laterally extending tongues 9. 'llhe middle of the front wall of the box is provided, just below the metallic strip 2, with an opening 10 which serves the same function as the corresponding opening illustrated in the box of my Patent No. 1,630,495, namely to enable the user to initiate the withdrawal of the first sheet by inserting his thumb through this opening. A corresponding openin for the forefingerin the cover and flap is a so neces sary. rlhe hole in the flap, left bythe .cutting out of the tuck 8, can serve the purpose of the opening in the flap and the opening in the cover is obtained by scoring a section 11 immediately adjacent the tuck.

To prepare the package for shipment the roll is placed in the box in the position illustrated in Figures 2 and 5, and the forward edge drawn up and over the cutting edge and folded down, as illustrated in Figure l. rllhe cover is then closed with the flap inserted behind the front wall of the box. The two tongues 9 of the tuck are slipped through the opening 10, as illustrated in Figure l, and thus not only hold the box closed, but press and squeeze the forward end of the paper between the Hap and the front wall and thus make displacement of it practically impossible.

When the housewife receives this package it is immediately obvious to her how the paper is to be withdrawn and all that she has to do is to remove the tuck, tear out the scored section Laat/,oat

of card-board 11 in the cover'and withdraw from the roll any desired length of paper.

open thus necessitating its replacement before use. To overcome this objection I have cut the rear upper edge of the box, as illustrated at 12 thus weakenmg' the card-board and producing, in eifect, a fiexible hinge for the cover.

ll claim A. box for dispensing roll paper-comprising.

side walls and a cover, a cutting edge along the top of the .front wall, an opening in the front wall below the cutting e ge, a flap on the cover lyin behind the cutting edge and y forming with t e front wall a guide for paper to be dispensed, a tuck cut from the flap and hinged along the upper edge thereof, tongues on the tuck extending through the opening and behind the front wall to keep the box closed, and a section of the cover immediately adjacent the tuck and of substantially the size of the opening in the front wall defined by scoring so that after removal of the tuck and the scored section of the cover, paper can be drawn upward between thefront wall and the Hap.

ln testimony whereof ll affix my signature.

` NlCHOLAS MARCALTUS.

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