Patent GB-611514-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to display cartons or boxes
IPC: B65D5/52
Filed: 1945-08-31
Abstract: 611,514. Display boxes. CARTNER, J., and LUCE, R. C. Aug. 31, 1945, No. 22495. [Class 18] [Also in Group XVIII] A collapsable display box or carton has a display member hinged to the top of a side wall and scored transversely of its length, which exceeds the height of the side wall, to form display panels of which one externally overlies the side wall and another is held erect in display position above the box by engagement with one or more flaps forming part of the box. One of the display panels may be used as the lid of the box and another panel may be folded over the top to form an additional lid. In Fig. 3, a display member 26-28, formed from a blank shown in Fig. 2, is secured adjacent the fold line 29, by staples, adhesive, or otherwise, to a wall flap of a box formed by bending a scored blank into tubular form and closing the bottom by inwardly bent flaps held in position by tongue and slot connections. The panel 26, which also forms the lid, is scored and cut at 39, 40 so that it can be folded upon itself as shown in Fig. 3 and, at its free end, a flap 27 is provided to engage box flaps 23, 25 both in the open and closed positions. The panel 28 has hinged flaps 37, 38, that are movable out of the plane of the panel to accommodate an article for display, and terminates in a flap 30 which holds the panel away from the side wall. When the box is closed the panel 28 lies against the box wall 12 and the flap 30 is inserted between the overlapping interlocked flaps forming the box bottom. In a modified construction, Fig. 5 (not shown), the lid panel has a hinge line inwardly disposed from the side wall and is held in erect position, without folding, by vertically disposed flaps, such as 23, 25, having notches to engage recessed portions at the base of the lid. In a further modification, Fig. 7 (not shown), the lid portion, having the same configuration as that shown in Fig. 3, is integral with the box wall 12 and is provided with lateral flaps which engage notches in the flaps 23, 25 to hold the rearwardly folded lid erect. In this construction the flap 30 is folded on to the panel 28 and, with that panel, is inserted between the flaps 23, 25 and the box wall 14 when the lid is closed. Fig. 6 shows a tubular box with the ends closed by flaps 47, 48, 49 and the top provided with an opening 51 formed by the upward folding of a display panel 52. The display member, comprising panels 26b, 28b and flap 30b, is secured in folded position by staples 54 which also secure the lid panel to a flap projecting upwardly from the wall 12b and both the lid 26b and the panel 52 are held erect by a cut-out portion 58 from the latter being tucked into the back of the lid. When the box is closed the lid panel 26b overlies the panel 52 and is covered by the panel 286, whose flap 30b has locking members 60 for engagement with slots in the wall 14b. In a further modification, as applied to a box of the pullthrough type Fig. 10 (not shown), the display member is part of a blank Fig. 8 comprising box bottom and rear wall portions 62, 14d together with a panel 63, which is to reinforce the front wall, provided by panel 12d Fig. 9 of a separate blank from which the side walls 11d, 13d are also formed. The blanks shown in Figs. 8 and 9 are connected by staples which secure flaps 64, 65 to the walls 11d, 13d. When the box is set up, the display member 26d-28d, with flap 30d, is pulled through the box so that the panel 63 engages the inner surface of the wall 12d, the lid panel 26d being held in erected folded position by a tongue 66 Fig. 9 engaging a slit 67 at the junction of the panels 26d, 28d. When the box is closed, the panel 28d overlies the panel 26d and the top of the box and the flaps 30d and 66 engaging respectively with the flaps 23d, 25d and the slit 67. The display member may have any form of printed matter. The Provisional Specification also describes a box wherein the overlying display flap or panel has an opening to register with an opening provided in the adjoining wall.