Wire dispensing apparatus for packaged wire

摘要

A container includes side walls and a floor panel for packaging coiled wire, which may be welding wire. A wire dispensing apparatus is included that pays-off wire from the coil without tangling or twisting. The wire dispensing apparatus incorporates a plurality of flexible protrusions that extend from a base constructed to minimally contact the coil of wire. In particular, the wire dispensing apparatus incorporates an angled or curved base that rests against an inner circumference of the coiled wire.

主权项

1. A wire guiding apparatus for dispensing single loops of wire in a coil from a container having container walls, the coil of wire defining an inner circumference, said wire guiding apparatus consisting essentially of:
a base including a wall member that tangentially contacts the coil of wire at a region proximal to the inner circumference, the wall member defining a rim portion; and, a plurality of thin flexible overlapping filaments said filaments only extending from a circumference of the rim to the container walls, said filaments affixed to the rim portion and extending radially outward from a top of said rim portion toward the container walls, a length of said filaments sized to completely cover a top surface of the coil, the plurality of filaments being elastically deformable for allowing single loops of associated wire to dispense from the coil at a peripheral end of said filaments and the container walls.