Story Revealing Packaging

• US 20190009978A1
• Filed: 06/05/2018
• Published: 01/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Maurizio Le Donne
• Original Assignee: Maurizio Le Donne
• Inventors: Le Donne, Maurizio
• Application Number:
  US15/997,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20190009978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/02 Labels
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/06 Special configurations; Closures simulating or provided with another item, e.g. puppet, animal, vehicle, building B65D81/366 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/205 Means for the attachment of labels, cards, coupons or the like; cards or coupons for the other types of rigid or semi-rigid containers B65D25/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/003 Articles enclosed in rigid or semi-rigid containers, the whole being wrapped
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/60 for sweets or like confectionery products

Abstract

Story-revealing packaging features an inner container for holding one or more articles therein, and an outer wrapper situated in a wrapped condition around said container. The outer wrapper features one or more story elements printed on said wrapper and occupying a plurality of discrete areas thereon that are separated from one another by folded creases in said wrapper and are each hidden from sight at an exterior of the wrapper. Individual unfolding of the folded creases of the outer wrapper gradually reveals an overall story collectively formed by said one or more story elements.

Claims

1. Story-revealing packaging comprising:

an inner container for holding one or more articles therein;

an outer wrapper situated in a wrapped condition around said container and comprising one or more story elements printed on said wrapper and occupying a plurality of discrete areas thereon that are separated from one another by folded creases in said wrapper and are each hidden from sight at an exterior of the wrapper such that individual unfolding of the folded creases of the outer wrapper gradually reveals an overall story collectively formed by said one or more story elements.

2. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the said one or more story elements comprises a series of story elements placed relative to the folded creases such that individual unfolding of the folded creases of the outer wrapper in a predetermined order individually reveals said story elements one-by-one in a sequential fashion matching a reading sequence by which said story elements combine to form a logical narrative of the overall story.

3. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said outer wrapper comprises a continuous flexible sheet defining said discrete areas on which the story elements are printed and in which the folded creases are formed.

4. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said outer wrapper comprises a bag.

5. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the one or more story elements are printed on a same side of the outer wrapper.

6. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said outer wrapper encapsulates an entirety of the inner container.

7. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said outer wrapper is folded about the container in a manner wrapped over itself to form overlapping areas of said wrapper, and at least one of said folded creases exists in multiple layers of said wrapper at said overlapping areas.

8. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said outer wrapper is folded about the container in a manner wrapped over itself to form overlapping areas of said outer wrapper, and at least one of said discrete areas is backed by a respective overlapping area.

9. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the folded creases are parallel to one another.

10. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the discrete areas of the outer wrapper reside immediately adjacent one another.

11. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the discrete areas of the outer wrapper are separated by one another solely by the folded creases.

12. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the outer wrapper comprises flexible material at each of the discrete areas.

13. The packaging of claim 1 wherein said story elements are placed in an order of escalating sequence toward a common perimeter edge of the outer wrapper.

14. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the story elements comprise comic strips.

15. The packaging of claim 14 wherein the story elements are sequentially arranged in a longitudinal dimension of the wrapper, and said longitudinal dimension exceeds a circumferential measure of the inner container by at a distance of least h×

(N+1), where h is a height of each comic strip and N is the number of comic strips.

16. The packaging of claim 15 wherein said longitudinal dimension of the wrapper exceeds the circumferential measure of the inner container by a least 2h×

(N+1).

17. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the story elements are sequentially arranged in a longitudinal dimension of the wrapper, and said longitudinal dimension exceeds a circumferential measure of the inner container by at least a value of d×

(N+1), where d is a distance measured between adjacent folded creases in said longitudinal direction and N is the number of story elements.

18. The packaging of claim 17 wherein said longitudinal dimension of the wrapper exceeds the circumferential measure of the inner container by a least 2d×

(N+1).

19. The packaging of claim 1 wherein the one or more story elements comprise multiple story elements, and all of said one or more story elements are all printed in a same orientation on the wrapper.

20. A method of wrapping a container comprising:

obtaining an outer wrapper having one or more story elements printed on said wrapper and occupying a plurality of discrete areas thereon;

folding said wrapper in a manner creating folded creases between the discrete areas occupied by the story elements and stowing said story elements in hidden positions beneath an exterior of the folded wrapper; and

securing said folded wrapper in a wrapped state around an inner container within which one or more articles are held.