US2119300A - Article of manufacture - Google Patents

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May 31, 1938. A. N. sPANEL ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE Filed June 25, i934 INVENTOR /VSjuzz 7 i,

TORNEY Patented May 31, 1938 i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

My present invention relates to the packaging of goods for merchandising purposes and more particularly to the packaging of small articles that are displayed in trays, boxes or racks in comparative abundance and in attractive style, and it has for its general object to provide such a package for bathing caps and similar light flexible articles, which package will be pleasing to the eye, compact, simple to prepare and will serve to protect the contents. ends, the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations-of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a bathing cap package, complete, constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bathing cap flattened out before it is shaped into a ball and showing an edge turned back at the head opening;

Fig. 3 is a, vertical section through the package taken centrally through the body thereof;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal or transverse section therethrough taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a perspective View illustrative of the manner in which the cap is folded and rolled;

Fig. 6 is a greatly reduced plan of the casing v sheet.

Fig. '7 is a perspective view illustrating a different way of manipulating the cap prior to rolling or folding it; and

Figs. 8 and 9 are side elevations of slightly modified packages.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, as above stated, a bathing cap I suitable for packaging in accordance with my invention is shown in Fig. 2 and comprises a thin rubber protective covering for the head and hair, the head opening being indicated at 2 and the crown at 3. In practice, I first fold the sides of the cap inwardly toward a median line extending from the crown to the head opening into a multiplicity of layers until ithas the form of a relatively narrow strip composed of superposed double folds, the said median line being indicated by the dot and dash line in Fig. 2. The width of this built up strip, as shown in Fig. 5, determines the height of the body of the package. The crown portion 3 is at one end of the strip and the head opening por- To these and other,

(Cl. 20G-46) tion 2 at the other. I next roll the strip thus formed into a tight ball beginning the roll as indicated in Fig. 5 at the crown end so that, as the rolling proceeds toward the opposite open end, all contained air will be expelled. The re- 5 sulting full roll thus resembles a ball because its length and its diameter are about equal. Instead of rolling, the strip may be folded transversely upon itself a plurality of times.

In this condition, the case or wrapper is ap- 10 plied. This preferably consists of a sheet 4, as shown in Fig. 6, of transparent flexible air-proof material such as regenerated cellulose. The ball is placed in the center of this and the edges brought up around it and pinched together at one end to constitute the puckered portion 5 which is preferably at the side adjacent to the head opening 2 so that only folded edges of the crown will be visible on the opposite side. A cord, rubber band or similar constricting element 6 is nally bound tightly around the puckered portion and the sealing of the goods is complete but their color or pattern is still discernible.

In addition to the foregoing, I prefer to supply a further element that is both useful and adds to the pleasing appearance of the article. When the rolling or folding of the folded strip is started, I insert and anchor in the axial center thereof one end of a narrow flexible strip of material 1, which may also be composed of Vcolored regenerated cellulose, and the other end of which ultimately projects through the puckered portion 5 and its constricting member, beyond the edges of the wrapper. I'his provides a convenient means of picking a selected package out of a tray or group and may be contrastingly colored merely for ornamental purposes or to indicate a characteristic of the contents of the package.

Instead of folding the cap into a strip prior to rolling, as indicated in Fig. 5, the cap may be 40 twisted, beginning at the crown 3, into a strip of generally cylindrical form shown in Fig. 7. By twisting the cap into cylindrical form in this manner, the entrapped air is expelled therefrom. Thereafter the cap, thus twisted, is rolled or folded beginning with the crown, into a balllike body which can be encased in the wrapper 4 as previously described.

In Fig. 8 there is illustrated a different Way of attaching the handling strip 1 to the package. 50 In this modification the lower end of the strip is inserted between the outside of the wrapper 4 and the constricting element 6. Otherwise the package is the same as that shown in Fig. 1.

If desired the constricting element 6 may be 55 omitted as shown in Fig. 9, and instead the lower end of the handling element 'I is tied tightly around the puckered portion 5 of the package. Except for this dierence the package is the same as that described above.

A merchandising article constructed in accordance with my invention as above described may be made, as to its body portion, about the size of a walnut and many of them can be packed together in a small space with each in plain View and subject to instant and convenient inspection while the wrapper protects the rubber article therein from becoming soiled.

What I claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a bathing cap package embodying, in combination, a cap made of waterproof material folded laterally in multiple into a narrow strip and rolled longitudinally from the crown portion toward the head opening into the approximation of a ball, a exible case enclosing the latter and formed of a sheet having its free edges puckered, and a constricting element encircling the puckered portion.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bathing cap package embodying, in combination, a cap made of Waterproof material folded laterally in multiple into a narrow strip and formed longitudinally from the crown portion toward the head opening into the approximation of a ball, a flexible transparent case enclosing the latter and formed of a sheet having its free edges puckered, a constricting element encircling the puckered portion and a flexible manipulating strip having its inner end anchored in the ball and the other end projecting through the puckered portion and beyond the constrcting element, whereby the package presents an attractive over-all eiect.

ABRAHAM N. SPANEL.

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