US2015153A

US2015153A - Wire package

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Publication number: US2015153A
Application number: US19315A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edouard A Nicollet
Original assignee: PARAMOUNT WIRE CO Inc
Current assignee: PARAMOUNT WIRE CO Inc
Priority date: 1935-05-01
Filing date: 1935-05-01
Publication date: 1935-09-24
Anticipated expiration: 1952-09-24

Description

Patented Sept. 24, 1935 UNHTED STATE Parent 1 QFFEQE WIRE PACKAGE Application May I, 1935, Serial No. 19,315

5 Claims. (Cl. 206-59) This invention relates to packaging and has special reference to a wire package.

In the formation of wire coils for sale in the so called 5 and cent stores and in other places where coils containing comparatively small quantities of wire are sold it is customary to tie tags to the coils or to put bands around the coils, such tags and bands having the character, size and length of wire in the coil printed on them. When .tags are used they have to be detached from the coil to unwind the wire and such tags are frequently lost or mislaid so that the user no longer knows the size of the wire in the coil. Similarly, bands wrapped around the coil have to be torn ofi when the wire is used.

One important object of the present invention is to provide an improved wire package wherein the wire is wound in a coil in such manner as to hold a marker in the open center of the coil, the marker being in the form of a card bearing desired information and also, according to circumstances, advertising matter.

A second important object of the invention is to so arrange the wire and the card that opposite end portions of the card are embedded in a novel manner in the coil.

A third important object of the invention is to provide an improved arrangement of this character wherein the wire bindings commonly employed to prevent the coil from unwinding will also act to prevent the card from slipping out of the coil.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be presently understood, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter iully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing like characters or reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the coil and card with the plane on which the view is taken at right angles to the axis of the coil.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section through the center of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a plan of the card removed from the coil.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawing there is disclosed a wire coil Ill of ordinary form. At opposite points on this coil are provided binder wires II which each extends around the bundle of wire convolutions and has its ends twisted together to hold the wire from uncoiling.

Associated with this wire coil is a card E2 of general hour-glass shape. This card has arcuate end edges it each terminating in arcuate corner edges 1 t which merge into straight side edge portions is. The side edge portions at each side of 5 the card are positioned at an obtuse angle to each other so that a contracted center portion or waist is formed centrally of the distance between the end edges I3 of the card. Centrally of the card is a circular opening Hi.

It is to be noted that the length of the card between the arcuate end edges i3 is less than the outside diameter of the coil and that the width at each end between the corners is greater than the inside diameter. The effect of this is that when the card and coil are assembled the end edges of the card and the portions adjacent said end edges are covered and held by the convolutions of the wire, these portions being embedded in the coil. The further effect of this arrangement is that the wires ll prevent the card from pulling out of the coil since the ends of the card are too wide to pass between these wires, the proximal parts of the latter normally engaging in the notches formed by the angularly disposed side edges of the card.

In constructing the package a rotating mandrel may be provided so arranged as to support the card and the wire wound on this mandrel partly on one side and partly on the other side of the card so that the end portions of the card will be embedded in opposite portions of the coil. Obviously, before being wound on the mandrel, the wire may be run through a measuring machine to enable the correct length of wire to be wound in the coil.

Advertising matter may be shown on the card as at I! and suitable information regarding the wire may be shown as at Hi.

There has thus been provided a simple and 40 efiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form and construction of 'the invention without departing from the material principles involved. It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described or to wire packaging as the invention can be used for packaging string, rope or other similar substances but it is desired to include all forms which come within the scope of the appended claims.

What is claimed, is:

1. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires at diametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wires surrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which the binding wire is applied; of a flat card having end portions embedded in the coil at opposite points thereof with a material portion of the wire on each side, and having notches in its sides wherein the binding wires are located and to facilitate the tying of said coil of wire.

2. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires at diametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wires surrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which the binding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in the coil at opposite points thereof, and having notches in its sides wherein the binding wires are located, the ends of said card being wider than the distance between the proximal portions of the binding wires.

3. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires at diametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wires surrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which the binding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in the coil at opposite points thereof, and having notches in its sides wherein the binding wires are located, the length of the card being less than the outside diameter of the coil and the end edges being arcuately concentric to the center of the card.

4. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires at diametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wires surrounding the convolutions of the coil at the point at which the binding wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in the coil at opposite points 5 thereof, and having notches in its sides wherein the binding wires are located, the length of the card being less than the outside diameter of the coil and the end edges being arcuately concentric to the center of the card, the ends of said card 10 being wider than the distance between the proximal portions of the binding wires.

5. The combination with a coil of wire having binding wires at diametrically disposed points of the coil, each of the binding wires surrounding 15 the convolutions of the coil at the point at which the binding Wire is applied; of a card having end portions embedded in the coil at opposite points thereof, the length of the card being less than the outside diameter of the coil, said card having 2 arcuate end edges concentric to the center of the card and having side edges each consisting of two straight portions arranged at an obtuse angle to each other to form a waist at the center of the card, said end and side edges being connected by arcuate corners and the ends of the card being of greater width than the distance between the proximal parts of the binding wires.

EDOUARD A. NICOLLET.