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Title: Package for carded merchandise
Description: Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Attention is directed to copending application Ser. No. 457,587, filed Apr. 3, 1974, and now abandoned, the present case being an improvement thereon. The background of the present invention is substantially the same as that described in the identified application but in the present case the box is improved because it is easier to apply the price detail, etc., to the cards while in the box, and the side of the box which exposes the portions of the cards to which the price information is to be applied is made stronger and the construction is such as to allow the price to be applied easier and faster. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A box is provided which has a bottom, side walls, front and rear walls, and a hinged lid for closing the open top thereof. Merchandise cards with hanger holes are arranged in the box and the hanger holes are aligned to receive the hanger while the cards are in the box and the lid is closed by reason of the fact that the front and rear walls of the box are provided with relatively large openings that intersect the top edges of the walls and the adjacent side wall. The lid comprises a portion of the side wall adjacent to the openings in the walls, and the openings take up more than a half of the width of the walls in which they are located. A portion of the lid comprises also a portion of the side wall and is pivoted at the bottom areas of the wall openings being then folded over to form the lid per se, whereby the side wall adjacent to the wall openings is strengthened by the presence of the lid, and also by reason of the fact that the fixed portion of the side wall is shorter than the opposite side wall so that when the price information is affixed to the cards one after the other with the lip open, the side wall upon which the lid is mounted is considerably stronger and does not tend to sag outwardly. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the package open; and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the package closed, with the hanger in place. PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION A box of any suitable material is provided with front wall 10, rear wall 12, side wall 14, and an opposite side wall 16. This box also has a closed bottom. Side wall 14 is provided along a line 18 with a hinge which may be simply a fold in the side wall 14, and this hinge carries a side wall member 20 which is provided in turn with a hinge 22 carrying a lid portion 24 having an end flap 26. Fold 18 is parallel to the top and bottom of the box. The front and rear walls 10 and 12 are each provided with a relatively large opening along a preferably curved line which is indicated at 28, and this opening is open to the top of each of the front and rear walls leaving solid portions 30, 30 at each end thereof together with a folded in tab 32, 32. The openings bounded by the curved line 28 also intersect side wall 14 and in effect side wall 14 actually includes the part indicated at 20, the top edge 22 of which is on a level with the top of side wall 16. These openings in the walls 10 and 12 extend from wall 14 past the centers of the walls 10 and 12 and a comparable distance or approximately so downwardly from the edge 22, see FIG. 2, when the box is closed. There are a plurality of cards in the package and each of them is provided with a hanger hole 36 for the reception of the hanger 38 by which the entire package as shown in FIG. 2 can be mounted on a perforated board as will be clear to those skilled in the art. Whether the package is mounted on the perforated board or not, the lid comprising members 20, 24, and 26 is easily opened to the FIG. 1 position, whereupon all of the cards may be imprinted as in the exposed areas 40 for any information as price, etc., which can be applied to each card even though the cards are in place within the box. The box may then be closed and it is now ready for sale of the contents if mounted on a perforated board, but if the pricing information etc., was applied as on a bench or table before mounting on a perforated board, the package comprising the container plus merchandise is now ready to be mounted on the board with the cover closed as shown in FIG. 2. Other info: Inventors: Consiglio, Jr., Peter A. Application Number: 524496 Filing Date: 1974-11-18 Publication_date: 1976-04-27 Assignee: Primary Class(es): 206/526 206/806, 229/146 Other Classes: US Patent Ref:
Other Refs: Primary Examiner: Lowrance, George E. Assistant Examiner: Attorney: Fay; Charles R. |
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