ATTACHING DISPLAY CARDS TO BOXES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Thomas Hughes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th February 1877. A communica-
tion from abroad by Henry Hull Snow, of New Haven, and State of Connec-
ticut, United States of America, Confectioner.
EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London. "ATTACHING DISPLAY CARDS TO BOXES AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Henry Hull Snow, of New Haven,
and State of Connecticut, United States of America, Confectioner.
The first part of this Invention relates to an improvement in display cards for
boxes of manufactured articles, such as confectionary and the like, the object being
to combine with the box and as practically a part of it a card which may be turned
into position above the box, so as to be exposed for the purpose of indicating tho
contents or the price thereon, or for other purposes, the usual method being to make
the desired marks upon a card, and insert it among the contents, or lay it on the
surface, from whence it is liable to be removed, and frequently cause confusion; and
the second part relates to a device for a removable attachment for the card, and
which is applicable to other purposes.
The first part of the Invention consists in pivoting or hinging to the box a card
of any suitable material, which when not required for use may be turned down
upon and within the space of the side of the box to which it is attached, or turned
up in the same plane above the box when desired to be exposed; and the second
part consists in a plate or clamp for attachment to the box, combined with a card
clasp hinged thereto, all as more fully herein-after described.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective view, with the card
attached to the box; Fig. 2, a perspective view, with the card attached to the cover;
Fig. 3, a perspective view; and in Fig. 4 is shown a sectional side view of a
detachable device for attaching the card.
A represents a box, which may be of any known construction or size, according to
the nature of the articles of merchandise to be enclosed. At some convenient point
on the box, here represented as at one side, a card B is pivoted, as at a, preferably
by means of an eyelet. This may be at one corner of the card or at other con-
venient place, but so that when the display is not required the card may be turned
down upon the surface of the side to which it is attached, either inside or out, as
indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1

page_text: When thus turned down it in no way interferes with transportation, but is ever
ready to be turned up when desired, and on the card may be printed the name or
title of the contents, the price, or other desirable mark; thus, the manufacturer is
enabled to furnish to his customer, with each box of his manufactures, the display
card desirable for such box.
The card may be attached to a cover, as indicated in Fig. 2, if desired, but
generally the display card is required only when the cover is removed from the
box, and in that case it is desirable that it be pivoted directly to the box; but in
specifying boxes I wish to be understood to include the pivoting to the cover.
This completes the first part of the Invention.
In the second part of the Invention C is the plate or base usually provided with
the spring tongue D cut from the plate, and bent so as to clasp over the edge of the
box, as seen in Fig. 4, but this plate may be otherwise secured to the box. To the
upper edge of the plate C the card clasp E is hinged; this clasp E is best mado
form a piece of wire coiled at the center into two or more convolutions, the ends
turned to the right and left, and attached to the plate by bending the ears F around
the ends, as seen in Fig. 3, but may be otherwise formed, it only being essential
that there be a hinged clasp. The parts of the coil at the centre form a clamp,
between which the card is inserted, as seen in Fig. 4; thus arranged the card will
be turned to or from the box, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 4, without danger of 1
displacing the card from its proper box.
It will be understood that the clasp may be applied to the box and the plate
attached to the card without departing from the principles of this Invention.
This device is applicable to other uses than the attachment of cards to boxes, as
above described, and while claimed as a card holder I wish to be understood as
embracing all uses to which the device may be applied.