US1104253A - Display-box. - Google Patents

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H. WDUNPHEE.

DISPLAY BOX.

APFLI'MTION FILED 1111116.. 1913.

Patented Ju1y21, 1914 '1 emrah* sfilare HENRY W. DUNPHEE, F LEOMIN STER, MASSACHUSETTg DISPLAY-nox.

Specication of Letters Patent. Application filed January 6, 1913.. Serial No. 740,287.

PatentedJuly 21, 1914.

' specification.

This invention relates to display boxes and has for its object to provide a box of the ,class specified, simplevin 'construction and eicient in operation.

y With these ends in view myA improvements are illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the drawing accompanying this specification Wherein- Figure 1 is ai perspective view showing my unproved display box in display position.'

Fig.l2 is a perspective view showing the-box cover with the advertising display box body supporting member folded-into said cover for placing. over the box body containing merchandise.

ready -My improvements pertain to .the Well known cardboard box of commerce including a body 2 and cover 3. Hinged. yby hinge member 6 Within said .cover 3 and near one edge as 9. thereof is advertising display member 4, which may be provided in its up '30 er portion with some fanciful design as 5. Iaid display member preferably has substantially'the-,same Width as the length of the cover edge as 9 near which it is hinged. v Said display member may also be providedwith one or 'more supporting members?, S

'hinged to said ydisplay/member on axes respectively normal to the axis of the hinge 'portion of hingemeinber 6. Said support- .,mg members arepreferirbly integral With said display member 4 and are cut .thererom, so that when said supporting members as 7, 8 are foldedK down (Fig.-2) for packing they will fold into conformity with said display member. Said supporting members are so positioned insaid'dlsplay member that .when that display member is extended (Figi '1) and the box bodyl is 1n display position, that end of box body 2 resting onv said supporting members will be elevated higher than the opposite end of that box body rest-` ing in thebox cover. Also said advertising display vmember is preferably of such height.

relatively tothe position of sup ortlng .ain'enibersjb' therein, 'that a substantial portion of said advertising display member 4 will project above or beyond thebox body 2.

I claim: l. A display box including in combination a box body, a cover, an advertising display member hingedivithin said cover and near one edge thereof, anda supporting member able on an axis normal to the axis of the hinge joining said display member and box cover, into and out of conformity With said display member.

3. A display box including in combination a box body, a cover, an advertising display member hinged Within said cover, near one edge thereof, said display member having a Width `substantially the same as the length of the edge of the box cover near which it hinged, anda sup ort-ing member for one end of said box bo y hinged to said display member on an axis normal to the axis ot the hinge joining said display member and box cover.

4. A display boxlincluding in cc ``'ibination a box body, a cover, an advertising display member hinged Within said cover and near one edge thereof, and a supporting member for one end of said box body hinged to said display member on an axis normal to the axis of the hing'e joining said display member and box cover, said display member extending upwardly beyond said box body When that body is in display position, supp'orted on saidv display member supporting means.

5. A display box including in combination a box body, a cover, an advertising displayy member hinged Within said cover, near one Width substantially the. same as the length of the edge of 'the box cover ,near which it is hinged, and a supportingmember for one end of said box body formedfintegral With said display member and foldable on an axis 'normal the axis of the .hingejoinin'g said disply member and box'cover, into and out. Worcester and State .of Massaehuetts, this of conformity with seid display member, 3rd day of January, 1913, before twe subseid diqple member extendmg upwardly serbng Witnesses. beyond sai box'body when that body is in I `HENRY W. DUNPHEE.

'display position, supported on said display Witnesses: member supporting means. l HARRIET S. HUME,

'Signed et Leominster, in the County of HENRY R. BADSTBNER.

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