Display box

Nov. 19, 1957 d. lancellotti 2,813,622

DISPLAY BOX Filed Nov. 18, 1955

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United States Patent Office 2,813,622

Patented Nov. 19, 1957

2,813,622

DISPLAY BOX 5

Dante Lancellotti, Providence, R. 1., assignor to Uncas Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Rhode Island

Application November 18,195'5, Serial No. 547,769 10

Claims. (Cl. 206—45.19)

This invention relates to improvements in a box for dis- 15 playing flexible necklaces, bracelets, and the like ornamental chains.

An object of the invention is to provide a device of this character that will be neat, attractive, and so constructed as to have a display area to receive and firmly hold a ²⁰necklace or bracelet to be displayed.

A more specific object is to provide a device of the above character with a display pad so constructed that the necklace or bracelet to be displayed may be readily positioned and held by said pad without the use of additional ²⁵securing means.

. With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims. 30

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a display box embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2—2 of Figure 1; 35

Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of certain elements of the box of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of an element of the box; and

Figure 5 is a view of a decorative fabric employed in ⁴³fabricating the box.

In carrying out my invention, I provide the tray portion of the box with a raised pad having undercut sides which form a groove or recess in which the necklace or bracelet may be received. The pad may be made of any of various configurations appropriate to the particular character of the chain displayed.

. Referring to the drawing for a more detailed description, 10 designates generally a display box particularly adapted for the combined display of a child’s necklace NL ⁵⁰and bracelet B made of stringed beads. The body or tray part 11 is made of any suitable material, as for example cardboard material, formed in a general rectangular shape with a bottom wall 12 and right angularly extending side _ walls 13. An insert 14 also of similar cardboard material °® is made in the form of an inverted tray having a top wail 15 and depending side walls 16 which preferably are free of each other at their adjacent edges. A raised pad 17 is formed on the wall 15 and consists of a deck 19 and spacer body 18, which may be fabricated, as shown, of a cor- ’’θ rugated sheet paper stock of suitable thickness cut to the proper shape, which in the present disclosure is a heart. The deck 19, also of similar heart shape, is positioned on the body 18 and is of a size so as to overhang the body 18 and form an upper heart shaped flange 20 extending be- ⁶⁵yond the peripheral edge of the body 18.

In the present embodiment a second pad 21 is superimposed on the deck 19, and this pad may be conveniently formed as shown by means of a cup-like member 22 having a bottom wall 23 and a side wall 24, the upper mar- ‘° ginal edge of which is turned outwardly to provide a flange 25. The cup 21 has an oval shape and may be made of any suitable material, that shown being a synthetic plastic. The body 18, deck 19, and cup 22 are superimposed on the top wall 15 and may be secured thereto and to each other by a staple fastener 26.

The decks , are covered with a facing of ornamental fabric 27 which is loosely laid over the decks and the insert 14, the sheet being of a size to extend over the sides 16. A second inverted tray-like insert or mask 28 has a top wall 29 and side walls 30, the adjacent edges of which are also free of each other. An opening 31 extends through the top wall 29 and is made in similar heart shape but is equal to or smaller than the outline size of the wall 19. The mask 28 is positioned on the insert 14, which may be easily accomplished by first inserting an edge portion of opening 31 over a corresponding edge of deck 19 to engage in the bead or undercut side thereof, which will permit the other side edge portion of the opening to pass over the remaining edge portion of the deck 19. The fabric 27 will be drawn over the edge of the deck 19 to be held against the wall 15 and overlie the side walls 16 with the fabric gathered inwardly beneath the deck 19 and edge of opening 31. The fabric is preferably a woven fabric, and the portion thereof overlying deck 19 will stretch and give sufficiently to lie reasonably flat on the deck so that the fullness or excess fabric may be gathered inwardly about the walls 24. The insert, fabric, and mask assembly may be placed in the tray 11 to engage and be held therein by the side walls 13. The mask 28 may or may not be faced with a fabric, or the same may have a surface finish having the general appearance of the fabric 27.

From the above description and reference to the drawings, it will be seen that the pads 17 and 21 form tiered decks, the descending side edges of which extend inwardly to form pads which have undercut side walls with an endless peripheral groove or recess.