Coil hanger and handling method

摘要

This invention relates to material handling of helical coils of resistance heating wire, hangers for use in handling the wire coils, an assembly of hangers and coils and a method for handling such coils on hangers wherein the manufacture of resistance heating wire can wind and stretch the wire into a coil for a customer, form eyelets at both ends of the coil that are to be used as electrical contact terminals, and then assemble a plurality of coils side by side in a group with eyelets at each end of the coils being on a respective hanger. The hangers have a sleeve-like handle and an integral L-shaped rod arranged so that the coils can be mounted on the hanger by slipping the rod through the eyelets. The assembly of a pair of hangers and a group of coils can then be shipped as a unit to the customer where the customer need only remove the group of coils as a unit and mount the hangers on a T-shaped rack by slipping the handles over posts on the rack. The coils hang in loose loops so that they can be easily removed, usually one at a time, by the customer as they are used. The hangers may be configured to mount on customer racks upon which the customer would have previously hung the coils directly.