US2137398A - Package - Google Patents

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PACKAGE Filed July 23, 1934 @fray/vnf Patented Nov. 22, 1938 PATENT oFFlcE PACKAGE Eva Jo Helber, St. Louis, Mo., assigner to Brooks Paper Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application July 23, 1934, Serial N0. `736,467

` 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in packages and has for its chief object the provision of a package comprising a compactly and securely wrapped and enclosed pile of individual sections, the package being readily and inexpensively constructed and the wrapper of the package including a portion for partial severance for enabling the convenient successive removal or withdrawal of the contained sections Without disruption of the package.

And with the above and other objects in view,

my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim. e

In the accompanying draWing,-

Figure 1` is a perspective View of a package embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar View of the package as in opened condition for the successive removal or Withdrawal of the contained sections; and

Figure 3 is a plan View of the blank or sheet employed as the `wrapper in the construction of the package.

Referringnow more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, the package includes a wrapper or outer-member A, which is constructed preferably of anysuitable flexible or bendable material, such as paper of proper weight and thickness, and which preferably is in the form of a rectangular section of desired dimensions.

B designates the contents of the present package, which comprises any desired number of individual sections or sheets of Cellophane, or other flexible paper, cloth, fabric, or the like, each also of rectangular formation, but smaller in dimensions than the wrapper A. r

In the formation of the package, the sections B are disposed inpile relation and, in such relation, placed in properly centered position in the fiatwise disposed wrapper A, which then along the `transverse lines l, 2, 3, and 4, is first folded to 5 embrace the pile of sections B. The opposite end portions of the wrapper A are then folded downwardly, then inwardly, and then upwardly along the respective lines 5, 6, and 1, and the sections B thereby completely enclosed by and within the so-folded Wrapper A. A section of suitable sealing-tape 8 is then affixed to and upon the ends and on the under side of the package, as shown, for both permanently securing the wrapper A in enclosing sealed relation about the sections B, and the sections B in compact, pile relation.

The wrapper A, however, is initially provided suitably Within its area with what might be described as a U-shaped line of perforations 9,

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(Cl. 20G-57) which forms a zone of weakness extending crosswise of the upper wall and also partially upon an adjacent side of ythe packageyas best seen in Figure l. Upon severance along such line of perforations or weakness, the released portion of the wrapper A provides an integrally joined ap I0, which may be readily folded to open position, as shown in Figure 2, convenient access to the contained sheets or sections B being thereby afforded for the facile removal or Withdrawal thereof in succession.

The package is simple in structure, may be inexpensively manufactured, and serves efficiently in the performance of its intended functions, and it is to be understood that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the package may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

A package comprising, with a plurality of substantially rectangular sheets assembled in stacked relation to thus present a substantially rectangular prismatic pile formation, and a Wrapper formed of a single substantially rectangular sheet wrapped around the sides and interfolded and secured at the ends of the pile formation to thus present a wrapped package, preserving the substantial prismatic rectangular shape of the pile formation, said wrapper having the body thereof in its middle portion weakened for severance within a substantially U-shaped formation with the side lines of the area severance extending substantially across a flat side of the sheets of the pile formation adjacent to the interfolded ends to terminate at their ends at one side edge of the package and having the bight of the line of severance extending well down over an angularly disposed face of the package to present the cross-line of the U-shaped form adjacent to a side edge of the package substantiallydiagonally opposite the edge to which the ends of the U- shaped line terminate, the line of severance being thus presented entirely within themiddle portion of the Wrapper sheet and being of such form and location and area as to permit severance and folding back of the defined portion of the Wrapper to thus present the piled sheets to be withdrawn singly from the top while at the same time the unbroken portions at the ends of the package hold the sheets in place and the area within the bight of the U-shaped line presents an opening through which the edges of the individual sheets of the pile can be grasped for withdrawal through the top opening.

EVA JO HELBER.

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