Container

Oct. 29, 1935.

2,018,707

A. O. DALLER

CONTAINER

Original Filed May 6, 1933

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Patented Oct. 29, 1935

2,018,707

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

2,018,707

CONTAINER

Afrian O. Daller, Dennisport, Mass., assignor to

Daller Carton Company, Inc., New York, N Y a corporation of New York ’’

Application May 6, 1933, Serial No. 669,663

Renewed March 22, 1935

Claims.

This invention relates to a container and more specifically to a container with a removable window.

In general, it is an object of the invention to 5 provide a device which will efficiently perform the purpose for which it is intended, which is simple and economical of construction, which can be expeditiously and conveniently manipulated, and which is readily manufactured and 10 assembled.

Another object of the invention is to provide a container having a window which may be broken away, which may have a removable guard thereon, and which may be opened by a motion 15 of the guard.

Another object is to provide a container having a removable window protected by a section which may be reassociated with the window aperture after the removal of the window.

Another object is to provide a container having a removable window protected by a section, a portion of said section being adapted to act as a tucking-in flap for the container.

Other objects of the invention will in part 25 be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described 30 and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in con35 nection with the accompanying drawing, in which: —

Fig. 1 is a plan' view of a blank from which a container may be constructed embodying one form of the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a container constructed from the blank shown in Fig. 1.

The numeral iC in the drawing denotes a blank. The general arrangement of parts may be as desired. That shown comprises a front 45 section if, a base section 12, a back section 13 and a cover section 94 all in alignment. There are folding flaps 15 and 16 on the ends of the back and base sections respectively. At the ends of the front section are full end sections 17 asso50 ciated with which are the further folding flaps 98.

In one of the sections, for example the front, there is a score line 19 defining at least in part an area which may be removed’to create a window, and from another portion of the blank there 55 may extend another section to be juxtaposed to (Cl. 229—51) said window when the blank is folded. Thus the section 20 may extend beyond the cover section 14. A score line 21 may set off various areas in the section 20. Upon the breaking of this line one of these areas 22 becomes a tucking-in g flap. When the container is constructed, the other area 23 may be suitably secured to the section 19, as by an adhesive in the region 24. The region 24 may be separated from the remainder of the area 23 by a score line 25. jq

The construction and operation of the device is as follows: The blank is folded into the shape desired, the cover and attached section 20 remaining free. A lining 27 of a whole or a part of the device may be inserted, which may be 15 transparent at least adjacent the window, and material inserted into the lined container, or an inner container filled with material may be inserted into the container formed from the blank 10. The inner container may be transparent 20 adjacent the window. The cover is then moved into place and the section 20 placed across the window as defined by the score line 99. The section 20 may be secured in the region 24 to the section 91 and, if desired, the scored window '25 in section 11 may also be secured, by any suitable adhesive, to the area 23. The container may be opened by breaking the score line 21 and the cover 14 with attached flap 22 raised, or the cover may remain down but the area 23 moved 30 away from the area which is to become a window. If the latter is secured to the area 23, it will be broken out by the motion, or, if not, it may be broken out otherwise. The contents may be inspected through the window and the area moved 35 back over the window, or the score line 25 may be broken and the area 23 entirely removed. If it is to remain, it may be secured to the window by suitable means such as a tab 26 which may be outlined by the score line 21 and which may be 40 adapted to be inserted under the edge of the window.

It is to be understood that the invention described and claimed herein is hot to be limited by the terminology employed or the relative ⁴⁵dimensions of the portions in the device shown in the drawing. Those parts referred to as covers may be sides, ends, or bottoms and the box may be taller than it is broad, etc.

Since certain changes may be made in the ^soabove article and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in » w .

2,018,707 the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic B and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might - be said to-fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim 10 as new and desire to