Box with removable appendices for gripping the neck of glass vials

Abstract

A box formed from a single piece of cardboard for containing glass vials or the like. The box comprises a plurality of internally located removable appendices with each of which the neck of a glass vial can be reliably gripped and retained with the user's fingers when the neck is broken off and removed from the vial body.

1 . A box formed from a single piece of cardboard with removable appendices for gripping the neck of glass vials and the like, comprising: 
 four consecutive main panels and a flap projecting from the first main panel, said main panels and the flap being separated from each other by longitudinal parallel folding lines, and    two closure panels and tabs projecting from the ends of respective main panel and separated from them by transverse folding lines perpendicular to the longitudinal folding lines, wherein    from the fourth main panel there projects a secondary panel which is separated from it by a folding line also parallel to said longitudinal folding lines;    from said flap there project a plurality of elongate appendices separated from each other and, respectively, from said flap by breakable knurlings, in each appendix there being provided a hole for passage of a vial neck;    said flap is rotated about its longitudinal folding line and is glued onto the first main panel    the fourth main panel and the secondary panel are folded about their respective longitudinal folding lines and the first main panel is folded about that longitudinal folding line which separates it from the adjacent main panel, the first main panel and the flap with the appendices projecting from it being superposed on the secondary panel onto which said flap is glued;    in the first main panel there being provided a breakable knurling bounding a lateral lid rotatable about the longitudinal folding line which separates the first from the second main panel, said lateral lid being directly superposed on said elongate appendices to enable them to be withdrawn when the knurling is broken and the lateral lid is opened into a raised position.    
   
   
       2 . A box as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a projection defined by a cut provided in the first main panel extends from that side of the lateral lid opposite the folding line which joins the lid to the adjacent main panel of the box, there being provided in the secondary panel a cut defining a slot into which said projection can be inserted and is retained to maintain the box closed after opening the lateral lid by breaking the knurling bounding the lid.  
   
   
       3 . A single punched, crease-lined and knurled sheet of cardboard or similar flexible material for forming a box having the above specified characteristics.