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Application filed April 9,1890. Serial No, 347,219. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Andrew C. Mack, of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful 5 Improvement in Millinery Hat or Bonnet Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to boxes designed to be used for packing millinery hats or bonio nets for shipment.

Sly improved box is made of triangular shape or construction in transverse section. It may be made of card-board or any other suitable material, and either folding or fixed, 15 but preferably folding, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

By making the box of triangular shape the trimmed hat which is placedin it will be immovable or stationary, no matter which side 2o of the box is turned uppermost. Therefore the trimming cannot be crushed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference 25 indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face view of a blank from which my improved hat or bonnet box, when a folding one, is made. Fig. 2 is a view 30 in perspective of said box after it has been. opened, showing a trimmed hat within it. Fig.' 3 is a perspective view of the box closed, and Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating a series of the triangular-shaped boxes as arranged 35 to form a nest within an outer box or case for shipment.

The blank shown in Fig. 1, which may be made of card-board or other suitable material, has sides and end portions A A aud B 40 B, bent or creased to fold on the lines a a and b b, respectively, between which lines is a central portion C, so that when the blank is folded or set up it will make a triangular box,’ of which A A form the two inclined sides, C 45 the base, and Β B the ends. The side and end portions A A and Β B are further made with wings or flaps c c, d d, and e e, and with slits ff in line with the creases or folds of the flaps c c, and a slit g in the crease or fold 50 line of the flap d of one of the sides A, so that when the blank is set up or closed to form the box, the flaps c c may be bent inward, the flap d of tlie opposite side A passed down through the slit g of the other flap d to lock the sides A A together, and the flaps eeof theendpor- 55 tions Β B passed through the slits f f of the sides to lock the ends of the box when closed. Tapes or strings h h may be fastened to the ends or end portions to secure the whole when closed, as shown in Fig. 3. When the box is 60 laid open or flat, as shown in Fig. 2, the hat D is placed in the center of it. The sides and ends of the box are then brought up and closed, and the strings h h attached to the ends tied, as shown in Fig. 3. To remove the 65 hat, the sides and ends of the box are fully opened. The trimmed hats when put up in these boxes do not really or absolutely need any packing with tissue-paper or other material, it only being necessary to get a box of 7c given size to fit the brim of the hat, place the hat in it, aud close the box.

Besides the advantages hereinbefore stated, there is a great saving both of time in packing and space occupied by the package—a 75 great advantage both to the shipper and receiver. Thus a room capable of holdingtwelve hundred square boxes will receive twenty-one hundred (more or less) triangular boxes of the same dimensions at their base 80 and in direction of their height.

In Fig. 4 a series of the triangular boxes containing trimmed hats are shown, arranged within a square or oblong space that may be supposed to represent an outer case or box S. 85