Safety cutter edge box

Claim 1

A safety dispensing cutter box for sheet material such as waxed paper, plastic film, metal foil or the like in roll form, said box being in the form of a hollow wall structure and comprising a front wall panel, a bottom panel, a rear wall panel, end wall panels, end flaps, a lid member hingedly connected to the top of said rear wall, said lid member including a top panel with downwardly extending end flap extensions and a downwardly extending front panel extension, said front panel extension including rearwardly extending end flap members fixedly attached to adjacent ones of said downwardly extending end flap members to form said lid member, characterized in that a cutter edge element is fixedly secured along the free edge of said front wall panel and a score line extends along said front wall panel generally parallel to the bottom of said front wall panel and about which score line said cutter edge element may be pivoted to a cutting position, said front panel score line is spaced from said cutter element at a distance of more than half the distance between the cutting edge of said cutter element and the bottom of said front wall panel, so that when the cutter element is pivoted to the bottom of said cutter box it projects beyond the bottom panel for effectively cutting sheet material to be dispensed from said cutter box, said front panel extension extends down below said score line to provide a complete enclosure whether said cutting element is in cutting position or in a shielded safety position so that said front panel extension may thus also cooperate with said front wall panel to provide effective means of clamping or gripping the sheet material when the cutter element is in cutting position.