US2237330A - Shirt wrapper - Google Patents

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l.. BISHOFF SHIRT WRAPPER Filed Deo. 4, 1937 o W l o' E u l r D..

,4. ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. s, 1941 SHIRT WRAPPER Louis Bischo, New York, N. Y., assignor to Oneida, Paper Products, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 4, 1937, Serial No. 178,087

2 Claims.

My invention relates to a shirt wrapper and more specifically to a shirt wrapper in which the cardboard back is in two pieces adapted to be engaged together when the shirt is inserted in the wrapper.

Heretofore in the prior zart, laundries have used shirt wrappers comprising a one-piece cardboard back and a paper front, the shirt wrapper being in the form of a continuous wrapper. This wrapper is slightly separated, and the shirt, after being laundered and ironed, is pushed in. It often happens that in this more or less clumsy arrangement, the carefully laundered shirt is disarranged. Since a high standard must be maintained in returning shirts to the customer, the problem of providing an efficient and speedy packaging of the shirt in a wrapper of this nature has been a serious one. v

I have found that I may form a novel and efcient shirt wrapper in which a shirt may be packaged quickly and Without any possibility of disarrangement thereof by providing a wrapper comprising the customary continuous paper front and a cardboard back comprising two sections of cardboard adapted to be engaged to form a fairly rigid surface.

I further provide in'my novel shirt bag, a novel interlocking means for engaging the two cardboard sections which provides a secure and solid engagement and which can be quickly engaged, quickly undone and which cannot be accidentally separated.

The shirt bag of my invention is used by the laundry Worker by laying out the wrapper with the paper front down and the two cardboard sections spread out. The shirt is placed face down on the paper and the cardboard sections folded thereover, their edges being engaged to form the desired rigid cardboard back. The operation is simple, fast and eicient.

It is the object of my invention to provide a novel shirt wrapper.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a novel shirt wrapper with a two-piece cardboard back.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a novel engagement means for the back card board sections.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a shirt wrapper in which the wrapper is wrapped around the shirt and engaged in the back.

It is a tuther object of my invention to provide an interlocking means for the rear cardboard sections in which the interlocking means are formed from a longitudinal slit and a longitudinal tab.

Figure I is a plan View of the shirt Wrapper of my invention spread out to receive a shirt.

Figure 2' is a plan View of the shirt placed with the front down in the wrapper.

Figure 3 is a plan View showing the folded back of the wrapper with the shirt contained therein.

Referring now more specically to the drawing, in Figure 1 a sheet I of the customary paper which may be plain or wax paper or Cellophane type material is secured on each side at 2 and 3 to the cardboard sections 4 and 5. A line of adhesive 6 secures the paper to the cardboard. In the cardboard section `4 are longitudinal slits 'l and 8. In the cardboard section 5 there are two right angle cuts 9 and II) which form tabs II and I2 adapted to coact with slits I and 8 respectively. This tab is so positioned that its lower end (that is the transverse cut that forms the lower end thereof) is below the lower end of theslit 1. By this positioning a firm engagement of the tab with the slit can be effected.

Referring now more specifically to Figure 2 we find the shirt I4 laid face down on the paper I. This is the position in which the laundry operator will place the shirt before packaging the same.

In Figure 3 the engagement of the two cardboard sections 4 and 5 has been effected and the packaging is complete.

To eect engagement the cardboard sections are brought together and the section with the tab II is raised slightly so that the transverse cut that forms the lower end of the tab can engage the slit 1. The tab is fully engaged so that the vertical cut of the tab I I is brought into contact with the slit 'I and the cardboard section then brought down so that the Itab is engaged rmly by the slit. This process is then duplicated to join the tab I2 with the slit 8 so that a rm engagement of the two sections is efected and a rigid cardboard backing achieved.

Although I have set forth this specic manner' of providing for a rigid engagement of the two back cardboard sections other means for interlocking these two sections to provide a rigid cardboard back may be used if desired. The preferred method, however, above set forth, provides a simple engagement which can be readily and rapidly carried out by an operator without loss of time. The necessary cuts in the cardboard back that form the engaging means can be dieecut and do not tend to weaken the cardboard back.

By means of the shirt wrapper structure herein set forth, shirts may be wrapped and packaged by the operator rapidly, in less time than is required, than when the shirt is to be positioned into a closed wrapper. Further, there is no possibility that the shirt will be wrinkled or spotted in the packaging process. Again, the user can undo the wrapper very easily and Without trouble because of the separable back.

I prefer to use the tab and slit arrangement shown in the drawing to achieve the rigid interlocking of the back cardboard sections, but other means of engaging, as pointed out, can be used.

Although I have stated that the front of the shirt wrapper is of paper and the back of cardboard, it is within the purview of my invention to use a front of any transparent or translucent or paper sheet material and the back of any rigid or semi-rigid material stiff enough to maintain the desired back rigidity of such shirt wrapper. Further, although I have described the sections as being of equal width and interlocking as taking place in the center, it is obviously Within the scope of my invention that lthe sections may be unequal in length and the interlocking of the two sections may be eifected at a point other than the center of the cardboard back.

I claim:

1. A shirt wrapper comprising a front of flexble sheet material and on each side thereof a substantially rigid cardboard s-ection laterally secured thereto, one cardboard section having a right angle cut in the side thereof adjacent each end to form a tab at each end, the other cardboard section having a cut parallel to the free side of the section adjacent each end to form slits therein to engage the tabs formed in the other cardboard section.

2. A shirt wrapper comprising a front of paper and on each side thereof a substantially rigid cardboard section laterally secured thereto, one substantially rigid cardboard section having a right angle cut in the side thereof to form a tab, and the other substantially rigid cardboard section having a cut parallel to the free side of the section to form a slit therein to engage the tab formed in the other substantially rigid cardboard section.

LOUIS BISCHOFF.

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