Combined packaging and display box

Claim 1

A jewelry display and packaging box comprising: a bottom member adapted to rest in a horizontal position on a horizontal supporting surface, a display panel carried by said bottom member and having a face positioned to be exposed upwardly when said bottom member is in a horizontal position; said bottom member having a front edge and a rear edge; a cover member for the bottom member and having a top wall and peripheral wall depending from the top wall and defining therewith an open face unobstructed concavity which, in the closed position of the cover member, is open toward said face of the panel; said peripheral wall including a front wall, and a rear wall positioned to lie at the front and rear edges, respectively, of said bottom member in the closed position of the cover member and side walls extending from the front wall to the rear wall; said front, rear, and side walls having free edges, respectively, which, in said closed position of the cover member, engage said bottom member; a hinge member connecting the cover member to the bottom member at the rear of the members so that the cover member can be swung about the hinge axis in a direction upwardly and rearwardly relative to the bottom member, in said horizontal position of the bottom member, to an open position in which the cover member is generally upright and the open face of the concavity thereof is exposed forwardly of the bottom member; characterized in that: an article support is carried by the cover and has a jewelry holding portion to which articles of jewelry can be detachably connected, and which portion, in said upright open position of the cover member, with the bottom member horizontal, swingably depends from a location which is at least close to said free edge of the front wall, downwardly toward the face of the panel, is spaced forwardly from said top wall, and is spaced laterally from said side peripheral walls of the cover member and of which portion the lower end is spaced upwardly away from said face of the panel, and is substantially directly beneath the free edge of said front peripheral wall in said upright position of the cover member, so that an article of jewelry can be connected to the holding portion and suspended therefrom so as to be swingable both toward and away from said top wall in spaced relation to said top wall and to said panel face in said upright open position of the cover member; and said support is arranged to be confined in the concavity between said top wall and said face of the panel in the closed position of the cover member.