Container for convoluted wire or the like
AssigneeHafner & Krullmann GmbH
InventorManfred Hafner
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Abstract
A plastic container for storage and shipment of thin wire which is convoluted on a plastic reel has a bottom wall which is detachable from one end portion of a cylindrical barrel having windows for transparent or translucent plastic panes whose inner surfaces are flush with the inner surface of the barrel and whose edge faces are provided with tongues or grooves for complementary grooves or tongues in the edge faces bounding the respective panes. The windows are connected to each other by webs which are recessed or embedded into the material of the barrel.
Claims7
A container, particularly for storage and/or shipment of thin wire therein which is convoluted on a plastic reel or the like, comprising an end wall;
- a tubular section of synthetic plastic material including an end portion connected with said end wall, said section comprising a solid unitary wall and having an inner surface and an outer surface unitarily connected, at least two window openings extending between said surfaces and a peripheral edge face bounding each one of said window openings;
- and a viewing element including at least two transparent or translucent panes each installed in one of said window openings and each having an inner pane surface, an outer pane surface and a circumferentially extending edge face between the inner and outer surfaces, said pane surfaces of each of said panes being flush with the respective surface of said tubular section and the edge faces of said window openings and said panes having complementary male and female portions received within each other and connecting said panes to said tubular section, and a web integral with and interconnecting said panes and embedded within said tubular section and being of a smaller width than said panes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.