Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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TITLE: DISPLAY MOUNTABLE CONTAINER HAVING
RECLOSEABLE FEATURE
Background of the Invention
Field of the Invention
The present invention is in the packaging field and
is directed more particularly to a package made of folded
cardboard or like material and adapted to be mounted on a dis-
play rack, such as a wire point-of-purchase display rack.
The Prior Art
It is conventional to package articles for sale in
containers which incorporate~ flaps, extensions or like appen-
dages fitted with receiver apertures enabling the packages to
be mounted on polnt-of-purchase displays, such as racks having
projecting fingers, rods or loops. It is not uncommon for
such packages to be removed from the rack and replaced after a
prospective purchase has inspected the product description
and like informative material printed on the packages. Where
packages are subjected to multiple handlings, the apertured
support flap may become worn or torn, leaving the article in
a condition no longer to be supportable on the racX and rendering
the package soiled or deformed and hence unsaleable.
Since the appendage whereby the package is mounted on
a display rack typically projects a substantial distance beyond
the article proper, the prospective purchaser will u~ually be
required to undertake t~ro operations in utilizing and storing
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- -- the package, namely, tearing off the appendage to render the
package more compact, and opening the package to gain access
to the contents.
Additionally, where the nature of the article is
such that the entire contents of the package are not used directly
after opening, it is desirable that the container be recloseable.
The operation of opening packages of the aforemen-
tioned type as heretofore known has resulted in removal of printed
portions of the containerO In order to avoid exposing unprinted
areas, manufacturers have resorted to printing both faces of
the blank fr~m which the package is fabricated, a procedure whiDh
substantially increases costs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention may be summarized as directed
to an improved display package, the term "display pacXing" being
used hereinafter to connote a package which functions both to
enclose the articles vended and also to provide means for
supporting the same on a display rack or the like.
The package, ~Jhich is generally in the form of a
rectangular parallelepiped, includes top~ bottom, front and
rear walls and side closures, and is characterized in that
a rear panel member defining an upward extension of the bottom
wall portion of the container outwardly laps the rear wall of
the container.
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s - The rear panel member is folded transversely, to
define a single thickened section which outwardly laps the rear
wall and a double thickness area projecting above the top wall
of the container. The double thickness area is ~oined to the
rear wall along an adhesive line adjacent the top of the
container.
The singlè thickness section of rear panel is divided
into two parts along a score line. An aperture is formed in
the double thickness portion of the rear panel, enabling the
same to be mounted on a display rack with the wire component
of the rack extendlng through a reinforc~d portion of the article.
To open the package, the rear panel is ripped in two
along the score line, an operation which automatically separates
the adhesive line connectting the removable porti~on of the panel
to the rear wall of the container. This single operation pro-
vides access to the interior of the package by pivoting the
bottom wall and remaining portions of the back panel upwardly.
The package may thereafter be reclosed by slee~ing the
tab portion formed as a result of severing the back panel along
the score line, into the interior of the container in the space
~ defined bet~7een the bottom wall and the rear panel.
; Optionally but preferable, the back panel may be
slit to define a tongue~ within which the tag is engageable
in the reclosed position to maintain the device in its reclosed
condition.
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It is accordingly an object of the invention to
provide an improved display package.
A further object of the invention is the provision
of a display package of the type described which affords a
durable connection to the display rack and which, upon removal
of the component or extension connecting the package to the
display rack, fuctions also to open the package.
Stil~ a further object of the invention is the
provislon of a display package of the type described which may
be readily reclosed after initial opening and which will remain
dependably in the reclosed condition.
Still a further object of the invention is the
provision of a display package of the type described wherein
all printing is effected solely on one face of the package and
which, after opening and reclosing, will present to view only
elements of the imprinted face.
To attain these obJec~ and such further objects as
may appear herein or be herelnafter pointed out, reference is
made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in
2~ which:
Figure 1 is a plan view of a box blank for fabricating
a container in accordance with the invention:
Figure 2 is a perspective view of a finished container
in accordance with the invention;
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- ~ ~ Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 .illustrating
one mode of opening the container;
Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing-another
mode of opening the container;
Figure 5 is a perspective view of a opened container;
Flgure 6 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken
on the line 6--6 of Figure 2;
Figure 7 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view
taken on the line 7--7 o~ Figure 2;
Figure 8 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken
on the line 8--8 of Figure 2;
Figure 9 is a further perspective view of the opened
package;
Figure 10 is a perspective view showing the posit1on
of the parts after reclosing of the package;
Figure 11 is an enlarged vertical sectional view
taken on the line 11--11 of Figure 10;
Figure 12 is a sectional view of the blank in a
partially assembled condition,
Turning now to the drawings, there is shown in
Figure 1 a blank 10 of cardboard or the like from which a package
in accordance with the invention is fabricated. The blank is
comprised generally of a rear wall portion 11, a top wall section
12, front wall portion 13, bottom wall portion 14 and rear panel
assembly 15.
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A pair of side ears 14', 14' extend laterally from
the bottom wall portion 14, being separated therefrom by
weakened score lines 14". In similar fashion, side flaps 13',
13l extend outwardly of and are separated from the front wall
portion 13 by score lines 13". Similarly, edge flaps 12' 12'
and side flaps 11', 11' extend from top wall 12 and rear wall
11, respectively, the flaps in each instance being separated
from the wall portions by score lines 12" and 11", respectively.
The rear panel 15 incorporates a transverse arcuate
perforation line 16, for purposes which will appear hereinafter.
Optionally but preferably, the terminal ends of the perforation
line 16 are formed with notches 17, 18 to facilitate tearing
along the score line 16. The perforation line 16 thus defines a
tab section 19 which is connected to the bottom wall portion
14 along a first scored fold line 20.
The rear panel member 15 includes, in addition,
8 second section 21 and a third section 22, the sections 21
and 22 being separated by a second scored fold line 23.
A pair of support apertures 24~ 25 are formed in the
blank as mirror images symetrically about the fold line 23.
Additionally, the rear wall portion 11 is provided
with a slit 26 generally in the form of a broad V, defining
a tongue portion 27.
It w111 be understood that the upwardly directed
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surface of the blank as viewed in Figure 1 will form the inside
of the package, and that any printed material, directions for use,
advertising, etc., will appear on the bottom face, i.e. the face
away from that viewed in Figure 1.
The blank depicted in Figure 1 i5 used by partially
assembling the same to a box preform as depicted in Figure 12,
which preform may be packaged in bulk in flatwise condition
for subsequent assembly in a conventional box filling and forming
apparatus such as is known in the trade as a Jones ~illing machine.
More particularly and with references to Figure 1 and
12, the preform is fabricated by folding the section 22 of the
rear panel forwardly ( toward the viewer) about the fold
line 23 through 180 and effecting a transverse adhesive line of
connection 28 between the rear panel sections 21 and 22. There-
after the blank is folded along scored lines 29 and 31 to the
configuration shown in Figure 12 and a further adhesive connection
32 effected between the undersurface of section 22 (e.g. the
surface not shown in Figure 1~ and an area of the rear wall portion
11 adjacent fold line 31.
2~ As will be apparent from an inspection of Figure 12~
after the formatlon of the adhesive connections 28 and 3~, the
box preforms may be flattened as for shipment to a filling station
where they may be erected to a three dimensional configuration
which is generally a rectangular parallelepiped. The preforms
as shown in F~gure 12 are next filled and sealed in a manner known
per se and formlng no part of the present invention.
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Briefly, the filling sequence includes the steps of
first deflecting the wall portions of the preforms to the
parallelepiped configuration, folding the ears and edge flaps at
one side of the package at 90 to the plane of the blank along
fold lines 14" and 12", respectively, thereafter inwardly folding
side flaps 11 and 13 into mutually overlapping condition, and
gluing one said side flap over the other.
Thereafter, the partially closed but three dimensional
package is filled from the open end, following which the unsealed
end of the box 1s closed, and glued utilizing the same sequence
of inwardly be`nding the remaining side ear and edge flap and
inwardly folding and gluing the remaining side flaps 11' and 13'.
Following the last mentioned ~tep, the package is
completely formed and ready for application to a merchandising
apparatus, such as a display rack
Typically, the dispensing rack, which forms no part
of the present invention, may comprise a stanchion having a
series of rods R extending therefrom, (Fig. 2).
The~aligned apertures 24~ 25 may include sem1clrcular
notches 24~, 25' at upper portions, thereof facilitating mountlng
of the package where the dispensing arm is, as notedj rod shaped.
Alternatively, the dispensers may comprise a length of wire bent
upon itself and defining a bight having two legs which are
parallel and spaced apart, in which event it will be appreciated
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.- that the wire components of such dispenser will be in spaced
relation within the apertures 24, 25.
It will be readily recognized that the connection
between the package device and the dispensing apparatus i8 -
afforded by a double layer of cardboard, whereby the likelihood
of tearing during handling is substantially reduced.
A principal feature of the invention lies in the manner
: in which it may be readily opened for use, the action of opening
in addition functioning to remove the portions of the back panel
; 10 which previously served as the medium for supporting the device
on the dispenser rack~
Referring now to Figures 3, 4, and 5, the package is
opened by re~oving the rear panel sections 21 and 22. Such
removal may be effected in one of two manners.
As shown in ~igure 3, the panel sections 21, 22 may
simply be peeled back, se~ering the sections from the remainder
of the rear panel along the score line 16 and simultaneously
rupturing the adhesive connection 32 which secures section 22 to
rear wa~l portion 11.
20 . Alternatively, the adhesive connection 32 may first be
fractured as shown in Figure 4, and thereafter the section 21
separated from section 19 along score line 16, as ~llustrated in
Figure 5.
As will be evident, either of the two opening operations
~ill leave the contents accessible by simply pivoting the bottom
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wall portion 14 (which now~ in effect, defines the top of the
container) outwardly along fold iine 29, providing access to
the interior.
In order to reclose the container, it is merely
necessary to tuck the remaining portion o~ the rear panel,
namely the tab shaped section 19, into the interior of the
~ntainer into a position essentially parallel with the rear
wall portion 11 thereof. Preferably the tab is inserted through
the slit 26, whereby a frictional resistance to reopening of
the packaged is obtained -- see Figure 10.
As will be evident from the preceding description,
; there is shown and described herein an improved box, container or
receptacle particularly a;dapted for use in con~unction with
merchandising apparatus having projecting rods or fingers~ It
will be noted that the container provides a double thickness
of material riding on the support rods or fingers, whereby the
likelihood of tearing, rendering the package unsuitable to be
maintained on the dispenser, is substantially lessened.
It will rurther be appreciated that the components
of the container which previously functioned to maintain the
device on a merchandising display~ when peeled away in the
manner aforesaid, provide access to the contents of the package
simultaneously with the removal of the surplus material.
Optionally a glue dot D may be added between panels
10 and 11 (see Fig. 5) to maintain the device closed even after
separation Or the rear panel components 15 along ~core line 16.
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After opening, the package.may readily be reclosed
by tucking the portion of the back panel remaining through
: the open mouth of the container into ~uxtaposition with the
rear wall of the container.
It will be further understood that all printing is
effected on only one surfa.ce of the blank forming the
container and that both before and after the removable portions
of the back panel are separated, only those components which
were on the printed surface of the biank are exposed to the
exterior of the container.
As will be apparent to tho~ sk~lled in the art and
familiarized with the instant disclosure, numerous variations
may be made in the details of construction of the illustrated
embodiment of the invention and, accordingly, the invention
is to be broadly construed within the scope of the appended
claims.
