US2503379A

US2503379A - Article holding and display container

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Publication number: US2503379A
Application number: US102841A
Authority: US
Inventors: Stanley H Davis
Original assignee: S H DAVIS PAPER BOX CO
Current assignee: S H DAVIS PAPER BOX CO
Priority date: 1949-07-02
Filing date: 1949-07-02
Publication date: 1950-04-11
Anticipated expiration: 1967-04-11

Description

April 11, 1950 s. H. DAVIS ARTICLE HOLDING AND DISPLAY CONTAINER Filed July 2, 1949 INVENTOR Jfan/eg ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 11 1950 U STAT PATENT OFFICE 2.503379 g t Y V ARTICLE HOLDING AND nisPLA Y CONTAINER Stanley 1H. Dav-is, Toledo, Ohio, assignor to The S. H. Dav-is Paper soa Company, Toledo, Ohio,

a corporation of Ohio Application July 2, 1949, Serial 'No. 102,841

3 This invention relates particularly to containers for holding crayons and color car-d sets used by school children.

' "The primary object of the invention the provision of a container of this character the tion of the body member when the cover has been partially removed.

. Other objects and advantages of theinventien will be apparent from the following detailed description and from the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof and illustrating one embodiment of the invention, in which Fig: 1 is a perspective view of the container body and its cover with the latter entirely removed; Fig. 2 is a similar fragmentary view with the cover only partially removed and its top portion swung over to expose the upper open end of the body member; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; F g. 4 is a fragmentary section on the line 4 in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a plan of a blank from which the body member of the container is made.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the body member of the container and 2 the cover member which telescopes thereover. The body I is of rectangular form and thin from front to back with one edge, which is the top edge, when in vertical usable position, open and with its remaining end and bottom edges closed. The bottom member is divided by a partition 3 into a rear open-top compartment 4 for receiving color cards or the like, and a front compartment 5 for holding a row of crayons 6, as shown. A central top portion of the front side of the body member is open or cut away, as shown at l, to expose the upper end portion of the row of crayons, andthe compartment 5 may be conveniently made of a length to suit the number of crayons to be used, as hereinafter described. The open top edge of the body member is preferably formed on an upwardly and rearwardly extending incline, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

One feature of the invention consists in forming the body member I in a simple, efficient and economical manner from a single-piece blank.

.2 Claims. (Cl. '229-20) This blank is shown in flat form in Fig. 6 and includes the front panel H! and rear panel H connected at their inner or adjacent edges by an end section 12 along suitable fold lines IS. The rear panel H is connected at its opposite end to the partition panel M by an end section 1 5, which, in the present instance, is substantially one-half the width of the "opposite end section 42 and connects to the panel 15 by suitable fold lines #6. The front panel 10 has folding connection at its outer end with an end flap H which is substantiallythe width of the end section l2, while the partition panel l4 has fol-d line "connection with a flap l8 that is substantially onehalf the-width of flap PI. 'The rearpanel H is slightly greater "in depth or vertical height than the panels M and Ill and the upper ends or the end sections 42 and it and of the end naps f1 are inclined accordingly. A bottom section I! is attached by a fold line 20 to the lower edge of the back panel II, and to the outer edge of this section is attached a tuck-in flap 2|.

Tuckin flaps

22 and 23 are attached to the lower ends of the respective sections l2 and H.

The opening 1 in the top portion of the front panel In is formed by slitting the panel crosswise at 22 and removing a central portion above said slit short of both ends thereof, thus providing opposing end tongues 24 that are foldable inwardly within the container compartments 5 and outwardly along the partition 3 when the blank is folded. Each tongue 24 has an inner narrow section a of a width corresponding to the thickness of the compartment 5 and also has a free end section 2) corresponding in width to that of the space between the corresponding end of the compartment 5 and the adjacent end of the container. It is thus apparentthat the horizontal length of the crayon holding space 5 is dependent on the length of the slit 22 and the length of the section 12. Therefore, if it is desired to provide a container with a greater or less length of crayon-holding space 5, this can be easily done by varying the length of the slit 22 in the blank and also the length of the sections b of the tuckin flaps 24.

In forming the container body, it is preferable to first place the panel 14 over the back panel I I to be spaced therefrom by the end sections l5 and I8 folded at right angles thereto so as to form the compartment 4. After the flaps 24 have been folded inwardly, the front panel 10 is folded over the panel It in spaced parallel relation thereto with the section l2 serving as an end member against which the end flaps l8 flatwise abut, the sections b of the flaps 24 bearing fiat against the partition panel 3 and the end flap I'l lapping the end section l5 and sealed thereto by an adhesive 25 applied to the surface of flap IT. The

flaps

22 and 23 are then turned inwardly under the bottom edge of the container, and the flap i9 is turned under the lower open bottom of the body member with its flap 2| tucked in. It is apparent that the end sections I5 and I8 at the ends of the partition panel l4 serve to properly space such panel from the back :panel ll and that the sections a. of the turned-in flaps 24 serve to firmly space the front panel In from the partition panel 3 and also to define the horizontal width of the crayon receiving space 5.

The cover 2, which telescopes over the body member I of the container and is of substantially the same vertical depth as the body member, is divided substantially midway into upper and lower sections 0 and d thatare hinged together along a rear meeting edge thereof as at e. This permits the top section 0 to be swung back to claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, 18:

1. A container body for crayons and color cards or the like made from a single-piece blank comprising a back panel, a front panel and a partition panel at opposite ends of the back panel,

end sections foldably connecting the front and partition panels to the back panel with the partition panel connection one-half the width of the container body, end flaps on the free ends of said front and partition panels, with the partition panel flap one-half the width of the other and of the container body, said front and partition panels being folded over the back panel in spaced parallel relation to each other and to the back panel with the section and flap at the ends of the partition panel spacing it from the back panel and with the section and flap at the ends of the front panel spacing it from both the back and the partition panel, and with the flap of the front panel lapping the outer side of the end section of the partition panel and fixed thereto, and bottom tuck-in flaps for closing the lower ends of the container body.

2. An arrangement as called for in claim 1, together with the provision in the front panel of an opening extending downwardly from its top edge and having foldable side wall flaps turned rearwardly and outwardly in the space between the front and partition panels and along the latter to cooperate with the partition and front panels to form a crayon storage space.

STANLEY H. DAVIS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,996,232 Darragh Apr. 2, 1935 2,387,790 Williamson Oct. 30, 1945