Kink prevention jig and pail pack
AssigneeKobe Steel, Ltd.
InventorsRyota Shimozawa, Koji Sato
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Abstract
A kink prevention jig used in a pail pack to prevent kinks when wire is pulled out is provided with a housing that has a base plate part and a tubular outer tube part, and that accommodates a laminated wire and a wire extraction hole thereabove. This kink prevention jig is provided with an outwardly extended section above the laminated wire and that extends in the radial direction of the outer tube part, and a wire abutment section above the outwardly extended section and which abuts on a welding wire W and thereby prevents kinks when the welding wire W is pulled out from the extraction hole.
Claims10
A kink prevention jig for a pail pack, the pail pack comprising a housing to accommodate a laminated wire, the housing including a bottom plate portion and an outer cylinder portion and a draw-out opening for a wire at an upper side wherein the kink prevention jig comprises:
- an outward extending portion provided above a laminated wire and extending in a radial direction of the outer cylinder portion, and
- a wire abutting portion formed above the outward extending portion so that the wire abutting portion abuts against a wire to prevent occurrence of a kink when the wire is drawn out from the draw-out opening,
- wherein a top portion of the wire abutting portion is located at a height greater than H1+½×(H2−H1), where H1 is a height of the housing and H2 is a height of the draw-out opening, and
- wherein a size of a gap between an outer peripheral edge of the wire abutting portion and the outer cylinder portion is 0.05 times or more and 0.10 times or less with respect of an inner diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.