DISPENSABLE COIL PACKAGE

• US 3,700,185 A
• Filed: 02/17/1970
• Issued: 10/24/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company Incorporated (BP PLC)
• Original Assignee: Richard N. Nalevanko, Ronald R. Hubbard
• Inventors: Hubbard, Ronald R., Nalevanko, Richard N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilreath, Stanley N.
• Application Number:
  US05/011,997
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 242/159,170,171,172,129 206/46R,52W,65S,59R,59A,59B
• US Class Current: 242/159
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/004 with auxiliary packaging elements, e.g. protective pads or frames, trays
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/04 for coils of wire, rope or hose
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 49/08 enclosing the package

Abstract

A shipping and dispensing package comprising coils comprising a plurality of radial layers, each layer comprising a helical winding of insulated wire or other strand and a thin-walled, stretchable, polymeric membrane enclosing and compressing the coils and having an aperture for pulling the wire from within the package.

Claims

1. A shipping and dispensing package comprising a. a coil comprising a large plurality of radial layers, each of said layers comprising a helical winding of insulated electrical conductor around a central open core, and b. coil enclosing and guiding means comprising 1. a thin-walled, stretchable, polyethylene membrane having a gage of 2-5 mils snugly enclosing and compressing said coil during shipping and dispensing, a portion of said membrane being stretched across said coil, and 2. a peripheral edge in said membrane defining, over said core, an opening of a size sufficient to permit insertion of a man'"'"''"'"'s fingers to pull out an end of said insulated conductor enclosed within said membrane, whereby said insulated conductor can be withdrawn at high speed from within said membrane and said membrane about said opening assumes the form of a truncated cone with said opening at its apex which acts to guide said insulated conductor into a smaller spiral within the confines, of the membrane as it is being removed therefrom.

2. a peripheral edge in said membrane defining, over said core, an opening of a size sufficient to permit insertion of a man'"'"''"'"'s fingers to pull out an end of said insulated conductor enclosed within said membrane, whereby said insulated conductor can be withdrawn at high speed from within said membrane and said membrane about said opening assumes the form of a truncated cone with said opening at its apex which acts to guide said insulated conductor into a smaller spiral within the confines, of the membrane as it is being removed therefrom.