Combination product transmittal package and greeting card

• US 5,232,087 A
• Filed: 09/21/1992
• Issued: 08/03/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Schluger, Allen
• Original Assignee: Schluger, Allen
• Inventors: Schluger, Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Meyers, Steven N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KAVANAUGH, JOHN T
• Application Number:
  US07/946,606
• Time in Patent Office: 316 Days
• Field of Search: 206/45.28, 206/45.29, 206/45.3, 206/387, 206/424, 206/459.5, 206/216, 206/232, 40/124.1
• US Class Current: 206/45.29
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/045 Multi-part cards or sheets, i.e. combined with detachably mounted articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 27/00 Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents with shock-absorbing properties B65D81/03; letter-cards B42D15/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/422 as an extra panel or panels folded against or inside the container B65D5/4237 takes precedence

Abstract

A rectangular box bounding a compartment used for mailing a gift having left and right laterally extending panels and two modes of use, in the first use mode the left panel functions as a greeting card, facilitated in this respect by the right panel being effectively placed in an out-of-the-way position, and in the second use mode the right panel is folded from its out-of-the-way position to an operative position providing protection against breakage, etc., for the gift, to thereby contribute to the use of the rectangular box as a mailer.

Claims

1. A combination product transmittal package and greeting card comprising plural panels operatively arranged into a rectangular box of a selected depth bounding a correspondingly rectangular compartment to receive therein a product for transmittal, two of said plural panels serving as an oppositely disposed top and bottom panel of such box and each of an identical rectangular size having a selected sized horizontal pair of edges and a selected sized vertical pair of edges, an additional rectangular first panel pivotally attached along a left vertical edge of said box top panel adapted to cooperate with said box top panel to serve as a greeting card for said package, and an additional rectangular second panel pivotally attached along a right vertical edge of said box top panel of a selected size widthwise to optionally allow said greeting card service of said first panel and also to serve as a closure thereover during use of said package for product transmittal, said widthwise size of said second panel consisting of a first dimension delineated by a first fold line located in a clearance position from said box top panel right vertical edge that is equal to said depth of said box, an identical box depth-sized second dimension delineated by a second fold line located in a clearance position from an opposite edge of said second panel, and the remaining width of said second panel located between said first and second fold lines being equal to the width of said box top and bottom panels less said depth of said box, whereby said second panel is adapted to be folded in a clockwise direction positioning said first delineated dimension thereof against a side of said box and the remainder thereof in an out-of-the-way position against the box bottom panel, and also adapted to be folded in a counter-clockwise direction positioning said second delineated dimension thereof against an opposite side of said box with the remainder thereof disposed in covering relation over said first panel in its position folded against said box top panel.

2. The combination product transmittal package and greeting card as claimed in claim 1 wherein said additional second panel has an additional lip portion extending from said second dimension delineated thereon to enhance the attachment of said second panel in its clockwise and counter-clockwise positions, and a removable strip at an interposed location between said lip portion and said delineated second dimension for releasing said second panel from an attached position thereof.