US2886233A - Dispenser package - Google Patents

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May 12, 1959 H. KEssLER 2,886,233

" DISPENSERl PACKAGE l Filed sept. 27, 1955 United StateswPatent O DISPENSER PACKAGE Hilda Kessler, New York, N.Y. Application September 27, 1955, Serial No. 536,871

2 Claims. (Cl. 229-17) The invention relates to cartons or packages for retaining and dispensing readily, as through an associated spout member, objects-specifically, cigarettes-or material 1n powder, granular or ake form.

I am aware that cartons of this general type have heretofore been proposed; but these containers possess certain constructional objections which (it is the purpose of my invention to overcome. It is an object of my invention, therefore, to provide from a single stamping of suitable material, such as a relatively stiif stock of paper or other material, a blank which is readily formable into the finished article.

A further object of the invention is to provide the carton with a captive closure means which is an integral part of the carton and may be conveniently manipulated when it is desired to eect a withdrawal from the carton.

Another object of the invention is so to associate a spout, as a closure means, with the remainder of the carton structure that the latter will present a smooth, finished appearance in that the spout ts substantially ush with and becomes a closure portion of the carton.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a construction whereby the spout remains at all times held to the container proper yet has its travel limited.

The invention has for an object, also, to provide a container which will admit of removal of contents therefrom with a minimum exposure of the remaining contents to the ambient atmosphere.

Another object of the invention is to provide a container of minimum bulk and weight to enable it to fit and be carried readily within, for example, a ladys purse, yet remaining properly sealed.

In carrying out the invention, the novel carton is constructed of a single piece of suitable stock in providing therefrom a blank from which the carton is formed in conventional manner with enclosing side walls, bottom wall and end walls. The top, however, is interrupted and comprises a pair of overlapping aps which are extensions of the corresponding side walls but of lesser width than the same in order to provide at one end of the carton a discharge opening in the top. To close this opening, normally, a tongue member extends from the end wall opposite said opening and is of a length to overlap the entire top including the discharge opening. It is secured in part to the overlapping flaps extending as a spout beyond the same over the entire opening. This extending portion is provided with lateral wing portions designed to t over the corresponding side walls and through respective slits provided therein. The said wing portions are specially designed to insure their retention when the spout is elevated to expose the opening and contents.

The nature of the invention, however, will best be understood when described in connection with the accom panying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in isometric projection `illustrating the novel dispenser package with spout member elevated.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

2,886,233 Patented May -12, 1959l Fig. 3 illustrates, in isometric projection, the package tilted for removal of a cigarette therefrom.

Figs. 4 and 5 are fragmentary, side elevational views showing in detail the operation of the spout member; and particularly, in the case of Fig. 5, such operation with reference to the retention of the spout against undue elevation.

Fig. 6 illustrates the die-cut blank from which the onepiece dispenser package is formed.

Referring to the drawings, the novel carton, Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, comprises side walls 10, 11, end walls 12, 13 and a bottom wall 14-a1l of stiff stock of suitable material such as lightweight fiberboard, and are formed from a single stamping (Fig. 6) as hereinafter more fully set forth. A top wall 15 is provided but the same is not continuous, being interrupted, as shown, from the top of end wall 12 to afford a discharge opening 16 for the contents, for example cigarettes 17. The contents may readily be ejected or, in the case of flowable material, poured by tilting the carton as is indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, after rst having cleared the opening 16 by elevating a closure member as the spout 18 provided thereover.

This spout member is integral with a tongue member 15' as a continuation of end wall portion 13 and is secured in part to the top wall flap portions 151, 151', the unattached portion being provided with lateral wings 19, 20 of novel construction. These wings are designed to eX- tend over the corresponding side walls 10, 11 and then to pass into the carton through respective inclined slits 21, 22 provided therein. The outer edges of these wing elements are arcuate substantially up to the point of entrance into a slit when the spout is in its maximum elevation, as is indicated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive. However, the wing elements are continued, in reduced size, as angular tooth-like, linear- edge terminations 23, 24 to check disengagement of the wings from the carton side walls (Fig. 5). It will be understood that if the tongue member 15' be creased at or slightly behind the end of the underlying top wall portion (as is indicated at 18'), it may hinge thereat to permit elevating the spout manually for dispensing the carton contents. By depressing the same, the carton is closed against the side walls and top (Fig. 4) so that the contents are adequately retained and protected against exposure to external conditions.

The container, moreover, is readily constructed of a single piece of stock material cut to the form illustrated in Fig. 6 and folded along the dash lines. Thus, the two sides 10 and 11 may be folded inwardly about lines 10', 11', and the front end 12 by the overlapped flaps 12', 12 folded about lines 121, 121' and secured suitably to each other. The bottom 14 is provided by turning in tabs 141, 141' and folding thereover the bottom aps 14', 14" about the fold lines 241, 241'.

The end wall 13, as hereinbefore noted, is continued at 15', the top wall 15 being p-rovided therewith by folding the flap portions 151, 151' at the lines 152, 152 and securing the same to each other. Since these infolded portions are shorter than the corresponding side walls, the discharge opening 16 will be provided at the one end of the top wall, as shown. Tongue member 15' is likewise to be 'secured to this top portion substantially to the discharge opening where it is creased transversely, for example, to hinge the spout portion of the tongue member thereat. This will permit it to be manipulated over said discharge opening, as aforesaid, with the Wings 19, 20 sliding in the respective slits 2l, 22 to open and to close the carton, undue opening being checked by the respective toothed elements 23, 24.

This novel arrangement results in a container of substantial construction and one which is readily manufactured andwith minimum waste. It occupies, also, less assess volume than conventional cartons, and its substantially ush exterior admits of simple stacking of a plurality of these cartons.

I claim:

l. In a one-piece carton having enclosing side, end and bottom Walls: an interrupted top Wall comprising two overlapping aps as continuations at one end of the carton of the corresponding side walls, the same extending from the tops thereof and being of lesser Width than the respective side Walls to afford at the top end of the carton a minimum discharge opening kextending to the correspending end Wall; and a tongue `member as a continuation of the end Wall opposite said discharge opening having a portion secured to the top-wallforming portions and a hinged portion, when elevated, being adapted to expose the said minimum discharge opening, said tongue member terminating in a pair of laterally hinged Wing 4 portions, extending from the closure portion to afford a spout directed over the corresponding side walls and to t through respective slits therein.

2. A carton according to claim 1, wherein the tongue member is set back from the juxtaposed end of the discharge openinU a slight distance to retard advance of contents located behind the discharge opening.

References Cited in the ile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,847,028 Townsend Feb. 23, 1932 2,177,495 McGuire Oct. 24, 1939 2,202,279 Wilson May 28, 1940 2,330,466 Bergstein Sept. 28, 1943 2,340,976 Nevins Feb. 8, 1944 2,368,864 Molet Feb. 6, 1945

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