US2560675A - Face powder box - Google Patents

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July 17, 1951 a 1 3. WHEELER a-rA L FACE POWDER BOX Filed May 11, 1949 lNj/EN T0175 'fiarbara 53 whee/er Ralph [K Burd/c,./rr

Patented July 17, 1951 FACE POWDER BOX Barbara e. Wheeler and Ralph v. Burdick, Jn,

' Londonville, N. Y.

Application. May 11, 1949, Serial No. 92,656

Our invention relates to improvements in containers and packages and particularly to improvcment in containers and packages of face powder; At the present time, manufacturersbf face powder in the loose, rather than caked form, pack the same in paper 'boxes practically all of which are cylindrical and consist merely of a container and a cover therefor. The container comprises. a cylindrical side wall, a disk which forms the bottom of the container, and a piece of cellophane: which overlies and forms a tight but breakable cover or seal for the powder in. the container; The cover'proper merely slips over the side wall of the container like the cover of any round box.

In order to obtain access to the powder, the cellophane is torn away, and, thereafter, the powder is held in the box merely by the slip cover. Since the powder is impalpable, andthe slip covers of paper boxes cannot be made. to fit the container uniformly and tightly, it is quite impossible, after the cellophane seal is broken, to close the box so tightly that the powder is positively confined therein. Thus, it i impossible, for example, to carry such a loosely sealed box of powder in a suitcase without having the powder sift out between the cover and the container and. cover all of the other articles in the case. Even when such a box is used on a ladys dressing table, there is no place to put the powder puff and, when a used powder puff is put in a dressing table drawer, other articles in the drawer eventually become covered with powder.

The general object of our invention is to provide a container for face powder with an easily removable cover but which can be so tightly sealed that the powder cannot leak therefrom. Another object is to provide a box for face powder in which a space is provided for carrying a powder puff. Another object is to provide a powder box which can be easily filled and sealed by the manufacturer. A further object is to provide a box which may be cheaply manufactured and which has an attractive appearance.

We attain these objects by means of the novel elements and the combinations and arrange ments thereof described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is a plan view of our box with half of the cover removed;

Fig. 2 is a view half in elevation and half in section; and

Fig. 3 is fragmentary vertical section through the box with the powder and puff therein.

3 Claims. (Cl. 132 -82) Referring to the drawing, I is a cylindrical container for the powder which, like all of the other parts of the box, is formed of sheet metal having an outstanding circumferential head 2 near the bottom thereof. It is not essential that. the

first cover is provided with a large circular open.-

ing in which a centrally-disposed neck 6. is afterwards secured by rolling an outstanding circumferentialy-extending bead I thereon to limit. the extent in which the neck. can enter said opening and by spinning or rolling the. bottom 8 of the neck outward-1y beneath the top 5., as shown at; 9. The top of the neck 6' is provided with a, circular depression l9 therein of a size adapted to receive the powder puff [6 shdwn'inFigB, and the bottom of the depression is. provided with perforations H for the'discharge therethrough of the powder l2 shown in Fig. 3. When the box is filled, the powder would not ordinarily extend above the upper rim of the container, but in Fig. 3 we have shown the box as filled up to the perforated depression.

In filling the box, the manufacturer merely fills the container to the desired level and then presses the first cover firmly thereon. The air which is entrapped between the first cover and the powder in the closing operation can freely escape through the perforations I I in the bottom of the depression. The skirt of the first cover should fit tightly around the lateral wall of the container so that it cannot easily be removed, and thus forms a substantially permanent closure for the container.

In order finally to close the box, a second, easily removable cover I4 is provided having an arched top to form with the depression in the top of the first cover a space therebetween for the powder puff I6, and having a depending skirt l5 which slip-fits around the upstanding neck 6 of the first cover. The arched second cover not only imparts a, pleasing appearance to the box but also cooperates with the powder puff when the second cover is seated to hold the puff in sealing relation with the perforations II.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that our box can be tightly sealed so that powder will not sift therefrom, and that it is so designed that in packaging the powder and the puff together, no problems whatever are encountered.

What we claim is:

1. A powder box formed of four, separate, sheet metal elements including: a comparatively fiat,

cylindrical, powder-containing receptacle open at the top; a first cover element comprising a first portion having an inturned annular flange overlying the top edge of said receptacle, but otherwise open at the top thereof, and a depending skirt in tight engagement with the lateral wall of said receptacle; and a second, inverted, cup-like portion of smaller diameter than said cover portion having a re-entrant, perforated bottom, adapted to receive a powder puif, secured to the inner edge of said fiange and extending upwardly therefrom; and a second cover element having a depending skirt in slip-fitted engagement with the lateral wall of said cup-like portion and an imperf-orate top adapted to cooperate with said pufi when in the re-entrant bottom of said cup-like portion and hold it in firm engagement with said bottom.

2. A powder box comprising a comparatively fiat, cylindrical, powder containing element, a first cover therefor having a centrally-disposed cylindrical neck portion of a diameter which is substantially smaller than'said cover portion and projecting upwardly therefrom, the walls of which are inwardly directed marginally a substantial distance from the top peripheral edge of said cover and connecting the bottom of said neck by a substantially fiat, horizontal, ring-shaped section providing an exterior landed hand-rest portion, adepression in the top of said neck, disposed above said ring-shaped section, of a size adapted to receive a powder puff and having perforations in the bottom of said depression; and a second, readily removable cover of a diameter which is smaller than said first cover cooperating with said upstanding cylindrical neck and adapted to cooperate with said powder puff when in said depression to hold said pulT in firm contact with the bottom of said depression to form a closure for said perforations.

3. A face powder box formed of sheet metal and comprising a comparatively flat, cylindrical container element having an outstanding circumferential bead adjacent the bottom thereof, a first cover element having a force fit with said container element and laterally enclosing said container element between the top thereof and said bead; said cover element having a centrally disposed, upstanding, cylindrical neck portion of a length and of a diameter which is substantially smaller than said cover portion, the walls of which are inwardly directed marginally a substantial distance from the peripheral top edge of said cover, connecting the bottom of said neck by a substantially flat, ring-shaped section and providing an,exterior landed hand-rest portion, a depression in the top of said neck, disposed above said ring-shaped section, to receive a powder puff and having perforations in the bottom of said depression adapted to underlie and be closed by said puff when in said depression; and a second cover element of a diameter which is also smaller than said first cover element, and having a slip fit with said upstanding cylindrical neck portion, and having an arched top adapted to cooperate with said puff when in said depression and to hold said pufi in firm perforationclosing relation with the bottom of said depression.

BARBARA B. WHEELER. RALPH V. BURDICK, JR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,028,618 Smith June 4, 1912 1,251,028 Hoffman Dec. 25, 1917 1,532,830 Marceau Apr. 7, 1925 1 615,487 Root Jan. 25, 1927 1,818,340 Lemoine Aug. 11, 1931

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