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US 2026/0131932 A1Published application
Pipeliner container
AssigneeAmerican Pipelining Supplies LLC
InventorsJacob SALTZMAN, Richard GALGANO, Martin J. MCGUIRE
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Abstract
A container for the protection and dispensing of elongate coiled product, such as a collapsed pipeliner tube, has an arbor shaft supported in arbor holes made in opposed first and second base panels. A spindle of a product reel rotates on the arbor shaft. Handholes are made in the base panels outside of a product reel radius. A payout opening is made in a rectangular panel connecting the base panels together. End caps have sleeves that fit into the interior of the arbor shaft and flanges that mate to the base panel exterior surfaces.
Claims16
A container for protecting and dispensing a coil of elongated flexible product, the container comprising:
- a carton with a first base panel, the first base panel being disposed in a first vertical plane and disposed at an angle to a horizontal axis;
- a second base panel of the carton disposed in a second vertical plane and disposed at an angle to the axis and to be axially displaced from the first base panel, the first and second base panels being similar polygons each with a plurality of sides and the carton being prismatic;
- a first arbor hole formed through the first base panel and disposed on the axis, the first arbor hole being circular and having an arbor hole diameter;
- a second arbor hole formed through the second base panel and disposed on the axis, the second arbor hole being circular and having the arbor hole diameter;
- the first and second base panels each having a plurality of sides and each having a closest side to the axis, a first radius measured between the axis and a closest point on the closest side of the first base panel, a second radius measured between the axis and a closest point on the closest side of the second base panel being equal to or less than the first radius;
- an arbor shaft disposed on the axis and supported by the first and second base panels, an outer surface of the arbor shaft being cylindrical and having an outer diameter selected to be closely received into the first and second arbor holes;
- a product reel having a spindle, an elongated, flexible product being coiled on the spindle, the spindle having an internal cylindrical surface with an inner diameter that is larger than the outer diameter of the arbor shaft, the spindle rotatably mounted on the arbor shaft, a third radius measured between the axis and an outer circumference of the product reel being less than the second radius;
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- the carton including a plurality of rectangular panels extending between corresponding sides of the first and second base panels, at least one of the rectangular panels being a dispensing panel, an opening in the dispensing panel formed for the dispensing therethrough of the product.
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A container for dispensing flexible elongate product, the container comprising:
- a first prismatic base panel disposed in a first vertical plane;
- a second prismatic base panel disposed in a second vertical plane, the first and second base panels disposed at an angle to a horizontal axis, the first base panel being axially displaced from the second base panel, each of the first and second base panels having a vertical center line passing through the axis;
- an arbor shaft disposed on the axis and extending from the first base panel to the second base panel;
- a reel of flexible elongate product having a spindle, the spindle rotatably mounted on the arbor shaft, the reel having a radius, the reel disposed between the first and second base panels;
- a first hand hole formed in the first panel to be disposed outside of the radius, to a first side of a vertical center line of the first panel, and above the axis;
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- a second hand hole formed in the second panel to be disposed outside of the radius, to a second side of the vertical center line of the second panel, and above the axis;
- whereby a user may grasp the first panel through the first hand hole and the second panel through the second hand hole, a center of mass of the container being located vertically below the and horizontally between the first and second hand holes.
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A container for dispensing an elongate flexible product, the container comprising:
- a first base panel disposed in a first vertical plane;
- a second base panel disposed in a second vertical plane, the first and second vertical planes disposed on a horizontal axis to be axially displaced from each other;
- an arbor shaft extending between the first and second base panels and disposed on the axis, the arbor shaft having a cylindrical outer surface;
- a product reel having a spindle rotatably mounted on the arbor shaft so as to be disposed between the first and second base panels, an outer circumference of the product reel being disposed at or nearer than a first radius from the axis, the product as wound having a product thickness as measured in a radial direction relative to the axis;
- the first and second base panels each having a flat bottom side, a flat bottom panel connecting the bottom sides of the first and second base panels, all of the flat bottom panel being downwardly displaced from the axis by a distance that is greater than the first radius;
- the first and second base panels each having a front side, a front panel of the container extending between the front sides of the first and second base panels;
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- a payout opening formed in the front panel to be disposed below the axis and through which the product may be pulled out of the container and unwound from the reel, a vertical dimension of the payout opening being larger than the sum of the product thickness and a thickness of a human hand, whereby the human hand of a user may be inserted into the container and rotate the reel in a rotational direction downward and away from the payout opening, thereby rewinding the product onto the reel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.