A CONTAINER FOR A ROLL OF A WIRE LIKE COMPONENT AND THE COMBINATION OF SUCH A CONTAINER AND COMPONENT
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Abstract
A roll of wire is captured in a cardboard container so the roll is rotatable in the container about a rotation axis of the roll. The container has opposite sidewalls with aligned slots receiving ends of a shaft about which a spool carrying the roll turns. Each side wall includes three panels in different parallel planes; two of these panels include slots with aligned shoulders supporting the shaft. The container has a slot for enabling the wire to be paid from the roll as the roll turns about its rotation axis and a slit having edges for holding the wire in place.
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59 Claims
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1-30. -30. (canceled)
- 31. A container for capturing a roll of wirelike component, the container comprising an arrangement for enabling the roll to rotate in the container about an axis that is substantially the same as the roll rotation axis, the container being arranged to have an opening arrangement for enabling the component to be paid from the roll to a region outside the container and to be held in place by the opening arrangement for enabling an end of the component to extend from the container, the opening arrangement including a slot for enabling the wirelike component to be paid from the roll as the roll turns about tis axis of rotation, the container including a pair of substantially parallel side walls each including first and second panels extending in substantially parallel planes, the first and second panels on each side having aligned elongated slots for receiving and holding a shaft for carrying a spool for the wire like component.
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35. (canceled)
- 36. In combination, a roll of a wire like component and a cardboard container capturing the roll, an arrangement for enabling the roll to rotate in the container about an axis that is substantially the same as the roll rotation axis, the arrangement including a pair of substantially parallel sides each including first and second panels in substantially parallel planes, each of the panels having an aligned elongated slot receiving and holding a shaft carrying a spool including the roll, so that the shaft is supported by a ledge formed at bottom edges of the slots in the first and second panels.
- 44. The combination of 43, wherein the cut-out has an edge that is a sector of a circle having a center approximately coincident and a diameter such that (a) the shaft does not normally contact the cut-out during paying out of the wire like component and (b) if the shaft undergoes abnormal movements the shaft contacts the cutout and the cutout prevents contact of the roll with a top face of the container that extends in a plane parallel to the shaft axis.
- 46. A container for capturing a roll of a wire like component, the container comprising an arrangement for enabling the roll to rotate in the container about an axis that is approximately the same as the rotation axis of the roll, the arrangement including a pair of substantially parallel sides each including first and second panels in substantially parallel planes, each of the panels having an aligned elongated slot for receiving and holding a shaft for carrying a spool including the roll for enabling the shaft to be supported by a ledge formed at bottom edges of the slots in the first and second panels.
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59. A container for capturing a roll of a wire like component, the container comprising an arrangement for enabling the roll to rotate in the container about an axis that is approximately the same as the rotation axis of the roll, the arrangement including a pair of substantially parallel sides each including first and second panels in substantially parallel planes, each of the panels having an aligned elongated slot receiving and holding a shaft for carrying a spool including the roll, so that the shaft is supported by a ledge formed at bottom edges of the slots in the first and second panels.
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