Method for producing a package

• US 4,616,469 A
• Filed: 05/09/1985
• Issued: 10/14/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Skaltek AB
• Original Assignee: Skaltek AB
• Inventors: Skalleberg, Oystein
• Primary Examiner(s): Spruill, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/732,904
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 53/204, 53/397, 53/409, 53/410, 53/430, 53/456, 53/581, 206/389, 206/395, 206/396, 206/397, 206/409, 206/408, 242/105, 242/137, 242/137.1, 242/138, 493/954
• US Class Current: 53/410
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/04 for coils of wire, rope or hose
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/02 Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans , mandrels or chucks packaging aspects B65D85/67

Abstract

A method for producing a package to receive a ring (7) of reeled wire, tube or the like cut to a predetermined length, especially an electrical line (8). The ring (7) is introduced between two substantially square panels of rigid material, e.g. cardboard or the like, with the center axis of the ring running perpendicular to the panels. A substantially tubular rigid means (10) is after introduced through both panels and the center opening of the ring (7) and is thereafter locked in the introduced position in relation to the ring (7) well as the panels. The package can be used as a reel by removing a protective shell of the package. As an alternative said tubular rigid means can be removed, whereby the line or the like is removed from the center of the package.

Claims

1. In the packaging of an elongated article, especially a length of electrical cable (8), wherein the elongated article is provided in a coiled or ring form (7) of a given outer radius and having a center opening therein, a method of packaging such elongated article to permit alternative modes of dispensing the elongated article comprising:

(a) providing a pair of substantially square, flat panels of selfsupporting rigidity;

(b) providing each said panel with a line of perforation continuously encompassing a portion of the respective panel having a radius at least as great as said given radius;

(c) orienting said panels in spaced, substantially parallel relationship and introducing a ring (7) of such elongated article, without a central core support in its center opening, between said parallel panels with the center axis of the ring (7) substantially perpendicular to said panels;

(d) subsequently introducing a substantially tubular means (10) through said encompassed portion of each of said parallel panels and the intervening center opening of the ring (7) disposed therebetween; and

(e) releasably securing said tubular means (10) in the introduced position in relation to the ring (7) and said parallel panels to provide a central core support for supporting the ring (7) with respect to the parallel panels whereby the contents of the ring (7) may be subsequently removed from the ring either by breaking out the portions of said panels within the confines of said perforations to form a reel on which the ring (7) is coiled for access to the outermost turns of the ring (7) or by removing said tubular means from the ring (7) and said panels for access to the innermost turns of the ring (7).

2. The method according to claim 1, including the additional step of connecting said pair of panels together along respective adjacent edge portions thereof to form a box-like enclosure for containing the ring (7).

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein each panel is provided with a central opening before the ring (7) is introduced between said panels, the diameter of said openings substantially corresponding to the inner diameter of the ring center opening and positioned for axial alignment with a ring center opening when a ring is introduced between said parallel panels.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the panels are provided with a predetermined number of centrally placed substantially triangular flaps (9) positioned about the perimeter of said central opening before the ring (7) is introduced between the parallel panels, said flaps extending inwardly toward the center of the respective central opening beyond the level of the inner circumference of the ring, said flaps being folded into the center opening of the ring from the outer side of the respective panels after the ring is introduced between the panels and before said tubular means (10) is introduced therein.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein the tubular means (10) is locked in the introduced position in relation to the ring as well as the panels by providing said tubular means with circumferentially expanding tendencies in such a way that it expands and clamps against the ring as well as against the panels.

6. The method according to claim 4 wherein said tubular means (10) in the introduced position is flared outwardly at its ends so that the thereby formed flanges (11) are abutting against the outer side of the respective panels.