US2179376A

US2179376A - Candy package

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Publication number: US2179376A
Application number: US226795A
Authority: US
Inventors: William J Mcdonald
Original assignee: PECHEUR LOZENGE Co Inc
Current assignee: PECHEUR LOZENGE Co Inc; PECHEUR LOZENGE COMPANY Inc
Priority date: 1938-08-25
Filing date: 1938-08-25
Publication date: 1939-11-07
Anticipated expiration: 1956-11-07

Description

Nov, 7, 1939. w. J. McDoNALD CANDY PACKAGE Filed Aug. 25, 1958 ...MHA

Patented Nov. 7, 1939 STATES PATET PFE CANDY PACKAGE Application August 25,

` 4 Claims. 'Ihis invention relates to packages and has for l its principal object the provision of a simple and eliicient package, which can cheaply and conveniently be assembled to present a pleasing appearance.

A second object of this invention is to provide a candy `package in which the tray holding the candies or other material is made in three parts, not scored as usual, but perforated so as to provide a clean line oi cleavage, whereby the central panel may contain a picture of a set and the purchaser may collect sets as in other arrangements, such for example, as the pictures of actresses which were formerly packed with cigarettes.

In the drawing:

Figure l is an end View of my package.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan View.

Figure 3 is a top plan View.

In the embodiment illustrated the material to be packaged is represented as four candy pieces l0, such for example as hard sugar cigarettes. These white cigarettes are the length of the package but the total width of the cigarettes is appreciably less than the width of the package in order to present a more pleasing appearance and also better to protect the article. The cigarettes may be perfectly plain but I prefer to stipple the ends i l with edible red coloring material to represent the burning end of a tobacco cigarette.

The tray consists of three panels, a central panel it andtwo side panels I5. Instead of being scored where bent the tray is characterized by the provision of a series of close perforations I6 so that while the three panels of the tray may hold together firmly in transit, it will be possible after the package has been opened to break from the tray the two end panels l5 which may be discarded and the central panel It is saved to form a set. The length of the panel I4 is the same as the length of the cigarettes but its width is greater than the combined Width of all the cigarettes so that in packaging the goods the two end panels i5 when engaging the sides of the cigarettes, as at il', will form an acute angle as at i8 with the bottom or main panel of the tray.

In order to make the main panel of the tray attractive and add to the sales of the candy, each main panel carries an illustration forming one of ra series and leaving only a small space I9 for the advertisement. The entire sides of the end panels l5, however, carry advertising and these are readily visible when the candy package is on display. In the form illustrated in, Figure 2, the main panel carries a picture bearing a letter 2t which is one of the series and is for 1938, Serial- No. 226,795 (Cl. 99-180) example the initial of the animal illustrated as at il. As shown in Figure l, the transparent covering holds the side panels of the tray in contact with the hard candy cylinders, protects the candy contents, and keeps the picture on the bottom of the main panel clean without affecting its visibility. It is my preference to form the tray of fairly stiff material such as a good grade of cardboard and to use a fairly heavy surface so as to take a nice lithographic impression. The invention, however, is not limited to any details other than as called for in the claims.

What I claim is:

l. A candy package comprising a plurality of elongated hard candy cylinders placed parallel with their axes lying in a single plane, a threepanel cardboard tray supporting said cylinders, having a main panel of the length of the cylinders and having a width slightly greater than the width of the assembled parallel cylinders so that the side panels of the tray when engaging the cylinders shall form an acute angle with the main portion of the tray, and a transparent covering for the tray and contents, said transparent covering holding the` side panels of the tray in Contact with the hard candy cylinders.

2. The device of claim 1 in which the vertex of the acute angle at each side of the main panel is perforated to facilitate a clean separation of the three panels when the package is opened for use, whereby the side panels may be discarded and the central panel saved for other purposes, as for example, to form an illustrated card of a series of cards.

3. A candy package for candy of unyielding type such as candy cigarettes, comprising a sheet of cardboard having on one face a surface to take a lithographie impression, and having two parallel lines of perforations dividing the sheet into a main body and two relatively narrow side panels, said perforations facilitating the ready discarding of the side panels when the candy contents are removed from the package, a plurality of hard cylindrical candies on the main body of less total width than the body, and a transparent covering extending smoothing over the top and the bottom of the package to protect both the candy and the lithographie impression and also to hold the side panels against the candies.

4. A candy container comprising a tray of a body and two side panels, a plurality of hard candies extending from side to side of the body or main panel but short of the width thereof so that the side panels will approach one another at their free edges and means for holding said side panels against the candies.

WILLIAM J. MCDONALD.