US1033550A - Box-cover. - Google Patents

Description

A. H. GRANKSHAW.

BOX GOVELL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6, 1911.

Patented July 23, 1912.

sides of the-boxes toexpose the labels past- "To all whom it may concern} NiTED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

'iLiIiED H. enanxsmw, of Union TOWNSHIP, BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, .1,ASSIGN'OR '20 H.3RIDGMAN SMITH COMPANY, 0E BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A con.-

" 9012411 1011 0]? NEW YORK.

' Be itknown that I, ALFRED H. CRANK:

"SHAW, si -citizen oftheUnited States,residing in the township of Union, in the county of Bergen and State-of New'Jersey, have -'nvented new and useful Improvements in ox-Covers, of which the following is a specification. 1 I

This invention relates "generally to a sample box, and more particularly to the cover therefor, and has for its object/to so adapt the coyer thatitmay be employed as a. display card or advertisement without interfering with its use as a box closure.

' It isthe custom at. present-to inclose with the contents of a box an expensive advertising card or label to be attached to the end or side of the boxin an upright position when thelatter is exposed fordisplay, calling attention to the article orarticles in the box, the cover being almost invariably thrown away. To .avoid the ,expense of separateadvertising cards or labels, and always have the cover at hand to. protect the goods in the boxes, said'coyers are provided with means for holding them upright on the ed or printed on-the outside thereof, and when the boxes are to be covered the box tops are disengaged from the side and placed on the boxes to close-them.

To more clearly set. forth the invention and the features of novelty therein, reference is directed to the following detailed description andclaimand the accompanying drawing in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a box with its top attached in display position on the end of the box. Fig. 2 is ,a perspective view of the inside of the box top as it appears when first removed from the box. Fig. 3 -is a similar view of the lower portion of the inside of a box top ready to be attached to the side of a box. 'Fig. 4 is a similar View of the lower portion of the exterior of a box top differing slightly from that shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspecti e view of a box with its top in place thereon after the latter has been used as a label to protect the contents of the box from dust,

sunlight, and other deleterious conditions.

In the drawing, the numeral 10 designates 1i box which; may be made of paper-board,

Box-CO ER.

- Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d J l 23, 19 2. Application filed December a, 1911. Serial No. 66,158.

ing sides 12 which overlap the sides of the box when the top is in place, in the usual manner. On the top or outside of the cover 12 is pasted, printed, embossed or otherwise applied a label 13 which maybe an advertisement, a picture, or any other ornamental or useful subject. The inner or under side of the top 11 has at one end or side indicating'marks 14 extending from an angle 15 between the top 11 and its side 12 inwardly toward the center'of the top. These indicating lines may be parallel, as

shown in the drawing, angnlarly disposed or curved as desired, their use being to show where the box top is to be cut through to form a tongue 16. Near each line the words Cut here are preferably printed to indicate the purpose of the line. Projecting diagonally from the corners of the box top on the same edge with the. lines 14 are, di-

agonal lines 17 extending inwardly a short'.

distance toward the lines 14, and have printed near them the work Breakf while the words Break off are printed on the side 12 to which the lines 14 and 17 run. The object of the words Break and Break ofi'" indicate that the side 12 when the box top is to be used as a label is to be broken oil". i

Box tops of the character hereinabove described are placed 6n the boxes after the latter have been filled with goods, being usually wrapped separately and sent to the trade. Merchants upon receiving the boxes if they desire to expose them in their windows, show cases or on their counters take the covers of such boxes as are to be displayed, break off the side 12 of theitop, and

right position and exposing to full view the label 13 on the box cover. If it be desired at any time to close the box it will be necessary only to slip the top from its connection with the side of the box and place the top over the box, as indicated in Fig. 5. sired the side 12 may not be broken off but instead a cut may be made between the index If de- A nes 14 at the angle of the top 11 and the side 12, thus forming the 'tongue 16 as -.previously described. When the tongue 16 is formed in this way there is less mutllation 5 of thetop' and the feur sides 12 areintact,

securely over the box, as

A top for a box having a pair of index nes impre's'seden undersurface at one my hand in nesses. v

side showing where cuts are to-be made to form atongue by meaiis of which 'ssid cover may be attached in upright pesitio z" to'one side of the box. 7 1

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ALFRED H; CRANKSH AW. Witnesses: I

E. A. MARscHALK,

F. KRUEGER.

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