Tissue box with adjustable auxiliary bottom

Claim 1

In a conventional box for holding a stack of facial tissues, the box having imperforate walls except for the puncture-outlines hereafter mentioned, to exclude foreign material from the interior thereof, the walls including a fixed top and a fixed bottom each of a single thickness of material, the box having a stack of tissues therein, a loose progressively adjustable auxiliary bottom normally resting on and of substantially the size of said box bottom and having two rows each comprising at least three transversely arranged slots therein, the rows of slots being on opposite sides respectively of the transverse middle area of the auxiliary bottom, the trailing slots of each row being in longitudinal spaced relation to the nearer side of the box, said box bottom having two planar flexible and resilient potential braces puncture-outlined therein for partial severance therefrom and for swinging movement into the interior of the box and into locking engagement successively with the slots in the auxiliary bottom when the stack becomes depleted, the braces being arranged in longitudinal spaced relation to each other with an unpunctured area of the box bottom therebetween and being of lesser width than that of said box bottom, one end of each of said braces being integrally hinged to said box bottom along a straight imperforate transverse hinge line extending throughout the entire width of the brace, the sides of the brace as puncture-outlined being straight and parallel to each other and to the front and back of the box and perpendicular to said hinge line, the other end of the brace comprising a central tongue projecting toward said unpunctured area and a straight end edge on each side of the tongue constituting a shoulder adapted to engage the under surface of the auxiliary bottom when the tongue of the brace enters a selected slot.