An Improved Box for Packing and Displaying Goods.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box for Packing and Displaying Goods.
I, VALENTINE ATKINSON WILLIAMS, of 8 Milk Street, in the City of London,
Factor and Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The object of this invention is to combine show cards and price tickets with
packing boxes, and boxes made in accordance with this invention are particularly
applicable for packing and displaying handkerchiefs hosiery ties scarves shirts
and other haberdashery.
Now according to this invention I attach to or form integral with one or more
ends or sides of the box one or more flaps of the same material as the box or the
said flap or flaps may be of any other suitable material.
On the flap or flaps may be written or printed any suitable device description or
price of the goods contained in the box or both.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which :-
Figure 1 represents plan view of a box constructed according to this invention
containing handkerchiefs with the lid removed.
Figure 2 is a similar view of the same box with the flap turned back shewing
price of contained handkerchiefs.
Fig. 3 is section of box empty.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.
a is the box, 6 the lid ca flap which may be of any size and shape hinged or
otherwise attached to the box in such a manner as to be capable of being turned
down inside the box as shewn at Figures 1 and 3 or turned back to shew the
underside as shewn at Figure 2 d the topmost handkerchief contained in the box.
The flap c is preferably made of the same material as the box but it may be of
any other suitable material and is attached to the end or side of the box by hinges
or otherwise.
For example a cardboard box as generally used for haberdashery goods may
have the flap or flaps (if more than one) attached to the box by paper or canvas
in the way commonly used by box makers to attach the lids to such boxes.
Metal boxes may have the flap or flaps attached thereto in the same manner as
the lids of such boxes are secured preferably by cutting the metal to form hinges
which will enable the flap or flaps to be turned back into the position shewn
at Figure 2.
Wooden boxes may have the flaps attached thereto by means of hinges paper
calico wires or other well known methods used for attaching lids.
Boxes such as the one shewn in the drawings are especially suitable for the
haberdashery trade as manufacturers warehousemen and other wholesale traders
would expose the goods for sale in the warehouses or showrooms with the flap or
flaps in the position shewn at Figure 1 the flap bearing thereon a description of
the goods in the box while the retailer would expose the same goods with the flap
turned back as shewn at Figure 2 and mark on the said flap his price for the same
as illustrated in the drawings.
Any suitable device trade mark or description of the goods may be written
painted printed or impressed on the flaps.

page_text: Although I have only shewn one flap attached to the box in the drawings I
wish it to be distinctly understood that I may attach as many flaps to a box as the
box has sides which flaps may be attached thereto by any of the usual methods
employed by box makers to attach the lids to boxes when such lids are made to
open and not to take off.
To adapt my invention to circular or elliptical boxes I may attach the flaps
thereto by means of hinges at each end of or at the centre of each flap or by other
suitable means, the said flaps being preferably segments of a circle or ellipse the
hinges for cardboard boxes being made of strips of calico or tape secured to the
box and flaps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A box for packing and displaying goods having one or more flaps hinged or
otherwise suitably attached thereto the said flaps being adapted to be used as show
cards or price tickets or both ali substantially as hereinbefore specified.
Dated this 8th day of January 1894.
T. E. HALFORD,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.