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• US 4,285,150 A
• Filed: 10/15/1980
• Issued: 08/25/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Album Graphics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Album Graphics Incorporated
• Inventors: Richardson, William C., Isoldi, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US06/197,018
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 229/16 R, 229/16 D, 229/17 R, 229/16 C, 229/41 B, 40/312, 40/124.2, 312/234.1
• US Class Current: 40/312
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4204 Inspection openings or windows
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/4266 Folding lines, score lines, crease lines

Abstract

A folded paper box is provided which locks in the erected condition and has apertures in the exterior panels through which a label insert sheet is visible and interior panels which cover the apertures and insert sheet when in place.

Claims

1. A box formed from a unitary blank having a primary face and a secondary face, said box having an integral hinged lid;

the lid being a fold of a first panel over a second panel of the blank, the first panel constituting the interior lid panel and the second panel constituting the exterior lid panel to present the primary face of the blank outwardly on both faces of the lid, and inwardly folded flaps on each end of one of said first and second panels adhered to the secondary face of the other of said panels to form a pocket in the lid for receipt of a label insert;

the body of the box being formed from four side panels folded upwardly, one on each edge of an exterior floor panel, a first one of said side panels being integral with the exterior lid panel, the fourth side panel being integral with an interior floor panel, the interior floor panel being folded over the exterior floor panel and the fourth side panel with the secondary faces confronting, a portion of the interior floor panel being folded upwardly with the fourth side panel and the remainder overlying the exterior floor panel, the second and third side panels having inwardly and downwardly folded flaps captured between the edges of the interior floor panel and the second and third side panels, whereby all exterior and interior surfaces of the box are the primary face of the blank;

apertures in the exterior panels of at least the lid through which a label insert is visible, the interior panels overlying the label insert apertures.

2. The box of claim 1 wherein the exterior panels of the floor and the side adjacent the lid have apertures through which a label insert is visible.

3. The box of claim 2 further including a label insert sheet placed between the exterior and interior panels of the lid and floor.

4. The box of claim 3 wherein the label insert is a unitary piece.