US2063607A - Tubular article - Google Patents

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Dec. 8, 1.936 B. B. KENDIG TUBULAR ARTICLE Fil ed Oct. 19, 1955 NTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Pl II Patented Dec. 8, 1936 TUBULAR ARTICLE Benton B. Kendig, Philadelphia,

Wescott Products Corp., Brooklyn,

Pa., assignor to N. Y., a

corporation of New York Application October 19, 1935, Serial No. 45,739

9 Claims.

This invention relates to devices such as tubular articles, and to methods of making the same.

One object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described which shall require a minimum of material.

Another object is the provision of an improved device as set forth which is adapted to be quickly and inexpensively manufactured, as by continuous automatic operations of machines which can be relatively inexpensive, or which are generally stock machines for making devices of this character.

Another object is to furnish an improved device for the combined display and holding of articles of different types, sizes and shapes.

Another object is to provide an improved method for effecting certain objects set forth, wherein different steps can be practised manually or automatically, and in different orders of the steps, with certain steps adapted to be omitted or replaced by other steps, as may be required or de sired.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a front or top plan view of a device embodying the invention.

' Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views taken on the respective lines 2-2 and 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a rear or bottom plan view ofthe dev1ce.

Fig. 5 is a front or top plan view of a modified device embodying the invention, with certain parts removed.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Fig. '7 is a front or top plan view of another modification of the invention.

Fig. 8 is a plan view of a blank showing a step in the process of manufacture.

Fig. 9 is a similar view showing thefnext step in the method of manufacture, and also adapted toexemplify a still further modification of the invention.

Fig. 10 is a sectional view taken on the line ill-40 of Fig. 9.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, ill denotes a device embodying the invention. The same may be or is adapted to be wholly or partially of tubular form, and may be normally fiat or expanded as desired. Thus the device l0 may have one or more fold lines such as H, the number of fold lines being increased according to the desired expansion of the device. The device may be wholly or partially open or closed at one or both ends thereof, and in this instance, may be wholly open ended.

Regardless of specific details of construction according to varied possible uses of the device, as for receiving laundered shirt envelopes or such envelopes as have been newly manufactured (for which latter purpose, the device is sufficiently cheap), or for receiving cloths, toys and other varied articles, or for use primarily as a window display, with the reception of an article as a secondary consideration, the device affords certain advantages which may be obtained jointly or severally, as the saving of approximately 40 percent inmaterial, and the further advantage that the devicecan be made of a single piece of material, and the still further advantage that it can be produced by novel continuous simplified methods. Heretofore articles of this character, for instance, shirt envelopes, have been made with front and rear. walls continuous, whereas in this invention band portions are used to build up the front and rear walls, and with this feature there may ,be associated the novel characteristic of article receiving or guiding tracks l2 to facilitate insertion of an article without catching on the band portions. According to another aspect of theinvention, sections cut out from a wall are usedto form or build up a companion wall for the tubular device. Thus a substantial saving in material can be obtained and an envelope-produced which is superior in ruggedness to the devices having stiff rear walls and thin pliable light weight material front walls which have been attemptedto conserve material. Certain of these advantages will be more fully understood on considering the method hereinafter described, and wherein the additional feature of connecting the cut out section in register with the resulting opening, to thus form the tubular structure by a particularly simple process, will be described.

Referring again in detail to the drawing, the track or guide portions I2 may have front and rear flange portions I3, I 4 respectively, defined by the line or fold line II. The rear flanges I4 may be of greater width than the front flanges. Interconnecting the front flanges are one or more band portions I5, it which are desirably integral with said flanges I3. The band portions may define a top opening or cut off I! and an intermediate opening I8. The said openings are both indicated by the section shown in Fig. 2.

In register with the openings I I, I8 are the band portions I9, 25 respectively, both connected to the rear flanges I4 as at those faces thereof that are nearest to the front wall structure of the device. Consistent with the width of the flanges I3 as being narrower than the flanges I4, the said openings II, I8 overlap the rear flanges I4. Hence the band portions I9, 20 overlap the rear flanges I4 to facilitate connection thereto.

The different band portions may have any desired conformation. Thus the lower edge of the opening II, that is, the top edge of the band I5, may be shaped at IIa to engage under and support the shirt collar ZI shown in dotted lines, in a well known manner. The band I 9 will naturally have a corresponding curved lower edge conformation. The lower edge of the band I6 may have a decorative conformation 22, and the upper edge of the band I9 may have a precisely similar conformation 23 to facilitate the manufacture of the envelope from a continuous strip of material without any waste. The different registering conformations throughout avoid the necessity of waste ejecting devices to prevent clogging of a machine by cut out discard parts.

Along the common edge between the bands I5 and 20 I may provide an opening or cut out 24 to facilitate separation of these bands for insertion of an article into the device.

It will be noted that the rear wall of the device as shown in Fig. 4 provides a bottom opening 25, and an intermediate opening 26 between the bands I9 and 20, these openings 25, 26 being in respective register with the bands I6 and I5.

To insert an article such as a shirt, the operator opens the device III so that the bands I5, I6 form a front wall, and the bands I9, 20 form a rear wall, and thereupon inserts an article such as a shirt between said walls with the collar receiving and engaging the points or supporting portions at Ila of the band I5. The band I9 affords a rear support to maintain the article in engagement with the support IIa, and also protects the collar. The band 20 is of sufficient extent lengthwise of the device I0 to afford ample support under the article or shirt.

It will be observed that the opening I8 affords a large display window for observation of the front of the shirt or other article. Likewise the collar is exposed, and the rear of the shirt may be observed through the openings 25, 26. Thus the article or shirt can be rapidly inspected and checked after being packed in its final form.

It will be noted that in packing the devices III, the same may assume extremely compact form with the different bands I5, I6 interfitting with the relatively staggered bands I9, 20; or being received in their registering openings 26, 25 and I1,

I8. That is, there will be only two thicknesses of material.

Due to the substantial width of the flanges I4, ample support is afforded for the edge portions of the article or shirt at the rear openings 25, 26. Further, these flanges i4 afford an ample guide to facilitate rapid insertion of the article without causing the same to catch on the band 20.

The device II] can of course be made of cardboard or any other flexible, pliable or stiff material. The securement of bands I9, 20 to the flanges may be by means of adhesive, or other fastenings.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown a modification of the invention including a device 3 3 which differs from the device I0 primarily in having a front wall of two bands 3|, 32 and a rear wall of three bands 33, 34, 35 for fuller support of the article.

In Fig. 7 is shown a modification 36 which differs from the device III primarily in having its front wall consisting of a single band 3'! in conjunction with the wider front flanges 38 which correspond to the rear flanges I4. The rear wall consists of bands 39, 40.

In Figs. 8 to 10 are shown features embodying steps of the method of making any of the foregoing devices. A blank li out from a strip taken from a roll of material, with upper and lower edges adapted to register with each other, may be formed with slits 42, 43, extending lengthwise of the blank, and having transverse slits 44, 45 respectively extending toward each other. The slits are spaced from the side edges 45 of the blank and the general arrangement is adapted to produce the device II]. If desired, score or fold lines 41 may be simultaneously formed intermediate of the slits and the side edges to correspond to the fold lines I I. In any case, the folds or flanges I4 are now formed, as shown in Fig. 9, to overlap the slits 42, 43 and the slits 44, 45 at least partially.

The flanges I l or parts to be connected thereto may have been initially coated with adhesive, as at 48a, 4911., or may be so coated after slitting and before folding, and in any event, the flanges I4 are now secured to the narrow portions 48, 49 defined by the slits and located between comp1ementary slits to produce a structure clearly shown in Fig. 10. Thereafter, the slits are continued or interconnected as may be desired, or as indicated by the dotted lines 58, 5! to complete the article ID. These slits 58, 5I may, of course, be made without cutting the flanges I4. This method prevents accidental loss, or misalinement of parts in course of securement since the sections at 48, 49 are reliably integrally held during the operation of securing and moving the device to device of Figs. 9 and 10 may represent a completed device adapted to hold an article that may be engaged or inserted into certain of the slits 42, 43.

I claim:

1. A tubular sheet material structure comprising a wall having a panel section, and marginal flanges therefor folded toward each other, said panel section having an opening, and a connecting section of material cut out in forming said opening, said connecting section being connected with said flanges and being otherwise wholly separate of the panel section to provide a panel to complete the tubular formation of said structure, and the connections between the flanges and the connecting section being in alinement with certain edges of said opening so that said connections are directly accessible through said opening to permit the flanges and connecting section to be interconnected.

2. A tubular article of sheet material having a wall comprising a panel and flanges folded toward each other upon said panel, said panel having a continuous opening overlapping said flanges, a section of material adapted to fit in said opening, said section being adhesively secured to said flanges separately of the first named panel to form a companion panel for the first named panel.

3. A tubular article adapted to be constructed from a single piece of sheet material, including a wall having a front section, opposite marginal flanges for said section and connected integrally thereto, said section having an opening, and a sheet of material adapted to be completely out out in cutting said opening, said sheet of material be ing separate of the said section and being connected to said flanges to lie in register with said opening, and the connections being within the confines of the adjacent opening of the front section.

4. A tubular structure having side walls offset with respect to each other along the plane of said walls, and track elements extending marginally along the side walls and interconnecting the same to guide an article into the structure between said walls, said track elements each having a pair of flanges lying substantially in the planes of the respective walls, and one of said flanges of an element being wider than the other flange thereof, the narrow and wide flanges being integral and non integral with the respective walls connected thereto.

5. A device including a wall having fold lines deflning marginal flanges, said flanges extending toward each other and lying along one side of said wall, said wall having a continuous opening transverse to the direction of said flanges, said opening having each of its ends at a point intermediate of a fold linev and the free edge of an adjacent flange, and a piece of material adapted to be removed from said wall in cutting said opening, said piece of material being separate of said wall and being connected to said flanges at the free edges thereof in register with said opening, and said piece of material overlapping the flanges at that side thereof which faces said wall and lying wholly along the plane of said flanges.

6. A shirt envelope consisting of a single piece of stock having a flat front wall and spaced marginal flanges folded flatwise thereunder, a section cut from said wall to provide an opening overlapping adjacent free edges of said flanges, the latter being adapted to lie against said wall, said section being adhesively united, in register with said opening, with the edge portions of the flanges exposed at said opening, at those faces of said edge portions that are disposed toward said wall, whereby said section can be adhesively connected to said flanges while being held by said wall.

'7. A blank for a shirt envelope, including a single sheet of material providing a wall having longitudinal spaced fold lines defining marginal flanges bent under said wall, the latter having initially formed slits spaced from the fold lines and extending along and directly overlying said flanges, the ends of said slits being inward with respect to the free edges of the flanges, the slits defining therebetween a section adapted to be secured to the flanges and to be separated from said wall by cuts intercommunicating the corresponding ends of the slits.

8. A blank for a shirt envelope including a single sheet of material providing a wall having longitudinal spaced fold lines defining marginal flanges bent under said wall, the latter having initially formed slits spaced from the fold lines and extending along and directly overlying said flanges, the ends of said slits being inward with respect to the free edges of the flanges, the slits defining therebetween a section adapted to be secured to the flanges and to be separated from said wall by cuts intercommunicating the corresponding ends of the slits, and marginal portions of said section along the slits and overlying the flanges being adhesively united to said flanges.

9. A shirt envelope blank consisting of a sheet of material having parallel edges and fold lines spaced from said edges, said blank having slits correspondingly arranged in the section between the fold lines and being in spaced parallel relation thereto, the spacing between the slits and the fold lines being less than that between the fold lines and the free edges of the blank, and the slits having closed ends extending toward the center of the blank.

BENTON B. KENDIG.

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