Paperboard box for shipping of compact discs, cassettes and similar items

A paperboard shipping box for compact discs, cassettes and similar items, comprising:

• a first paperboard panel, said first panel including:
• a rectangular bottom section, said bottom section having first and second opposed parallel edges, third and fourth opposed parallel edges normal to the first and second edges, a first predetermined height measured between the first and second edges and a first predetermined width measured between the third and fourth edges;
• first and second elongated rectangular end sections, each of said end sections having first and second elongated opposed parallel edges, said edges being spaced apart by a first predetermined distance;
• said first end section being foldably joined at its second edge to the first edge of the bottom section;
• said second end section being foldably joined at its first edge to the second edge of the bottom section;
• an upper closing section having first and second opposed parallel edges and being foldably joined at its second edge to the first edge of the first end section;
• a bendable tab element extending from the first edge of the upper closing section;
• a lower closing section having first and second opposed parallel edges and third and fourth opposed parallel edges normal to the first and second edges, and being foldably joined at its first edge to the second edge of the second end section;
• a tab element receiving slit sized, shaped and disposed in the lower closing section to receive the bendable tab element;
• a second paperboard panel, said second panel including:
• a rectangular back section, said back section having first and second opposed parallel edges, third and fourth opposed parallel edges normal to the first and second edges, a second predetermined height measured between the first and second edges equal to the first predetermined width and a second predetermined width measured between the third and fourth edges equal to the first predetermined height;
• first and second elongated rectangular side sections, each of said side sections having first and second elongated opposed parallel edges, said edges being spaced apart by the first predetermined distance;
• said first side section being foldably joined at its second edge to first edge of the back section;
• said second side section being foldably joined at its first edge to second edge of the back section;
• first and second elongated rectangular side closing sections, each of said side closing sections having first and second elongated opposed parallel edges;
• said first side closing section being foldably joined at its second edge to the first edge of the first side section;
• said second side closing section being foldably joined at its first edge to the second edge of the second side section;
• said back section including a first perforation line extending at a 45 degree angle to the fourth edge of the back section from the intersection of said fourth edge and the second edge of the back section to a first point in the back section, and a cut line extending from said first point to a second point on said fourth edge, said first point being spaced from the fourth edge by a distance no greater than one half of the second predetermined width;
• said second panel being foldably joined to the third edge of the bottom section of the first panel by a second perforation line coincident with the fourth edge of the back section of the second panel;
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• whereby, when the second panel is folded along the first perforation line to the extent that the second panel is disposed beneath the first panel, and the second panel is folded over the first panel along the second perforation line and the first and second elongated rectangular side sections are folded upwardly from the back section, and the first and second elongated rectangular side closing sections are folded inwardly from their respective first and second elongated rectangular side sections, there is formed a cavity into which a Compact Disc, cassette tape or similar item may be received, and when the first and second elongated rectangular end sections are folded upwardly from the bottom section of the first panel, and the lower closing section is folded inwardly over the cavity, and the upper closing section is folded over the lower closing section, and the bendable tab element is inserted into the tab element receiving slit, a closed shipping box may be formed.