Unreel reinforcer for dispensing wire

A support for use in winding and dispensing a winding of flexible material comprising:

• a first tubular member having a reinforcement element disposed around its one end;
• a second tubular member having another reinforcement element disposed around its one end;
• said reinforcement elements being adapted to be abutted against the inside and outside surfaces of a container to structurally support the container at the area adjacent to an opening through which the winding of flexible material is dispensed therefrom when the second tubular member is telescoped over the first tubular member;
• and
• means for maintaining said tubular member in telescoped relationship.

A material support structure comprising:

• a first tubular member having a pair of tangs formed in a diametrically opposed relationship;
• a second tubular member having a pair of first slots formed in a diametrically opposed relationship;
• said second member being telescoped over said first member;
• said tangs being separably engageable into said first slots for interlocking connection when said members are telescoped;
• means for automatic alignment of said tangs on said first member to said first slots on said second member;
• and
• said alignment means comprising a pair of keying slots disposed in a diametrically opposed relationship on one of said tubular members and a pair of outwardly extending tabs disposed in a diametrically opposed relationship on other of said tubular members, said tabs cooperatively engaging into said keying slots to automatically align said tangs in the second member in proper relationship to said first slot on the first member.