Cardboard box, with a removable part having a mirrored surface

Abstract

A box formed from a single cardboard piece, having a breakable knurling bounding a portion removable from the box and having a mirrored surface. The box can be used to contain plasters or pharmaceutical or cosmetic products applicable to the face of a user who is able to use said mirrored portion extracted from the box to clearly view that point of the face on which the plasters or products are to be applied by the user.

1 . A box formed from a single cardboard piece, having a removable portion with a mirrored surface, and comprising seven consecutive cardboard portions separated one from another by transverse parallel folding lines, and defining in order a first flap, a first, a second, a third and respectively a fourth main panel, a supplementary panel and a second flap, these cardboard portions being folded about the respective transverse folding lines, the first flap being folded about that folding line which separates it from the first main panel and glued to the inner surface of the fourth main panel, said box supplementary panel being folded about that folding line which separates it from the fourth main panel and said second flap being superposed and glued on the outer surface of said second main panel, there also being provide lateral panels which project laterally from at least one end of at least one of said main panels from which these lateral panels are separated by longitudinal folding lines perpendicular to said transverse folding lines, the lateral panels being foldable to close the ends of said box, in said first main panel a knurling being provided bounding therein a panel portion which is mirrored, wherein said panel portion can be removed from the first panel and extracted from the box by breaking said knurling when the box is open with its supplementary panel raised away from the first main panel. 
   
   
       2 . A box as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said portion removable from the first main panel is separated from the adjacent second main panel by an elongated hole which interrupts said knurling and defines an aperture for the insertion of a finger of one hand below said panel portion, which can hence be gripped with two fingers to be removed from the box, after tearing said knurling. 
   
   
       3 . A box as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein said elongated hole extends both along the first main panel  1  and along the second main panel of the box. 
   
   
       4 . A box as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein in the removable panel portion a folding line is provided which divides this portion into two parts foldable one onto the other about said folding line, the free edge of each of said two panel portion parts being provided with elements which can be mutually engaged to retain the two parts mutually superposed.