Container for welding wire

A container for packaging and unwinding a welding wire, said container comprising:

• a square cardboard box with four side walls and four vertically extending corners, each defining an apex, an inner vertically extending tubular liner with an octagonal outer shape having four outer walls each generally overlying a side wall of said box and four alternate inner walls between two of said outer walls and spaced from said corner apexes to define generally triangular, vertical cavities with an at rest dimension from the apex of a corner to one of said alternate inner walls and a vertically extending pressure rib extending from said apex to said inner wall of a corner cavity, said rib having a width to push said inner wall inwardly beyond said at rest dimension before said wire is coiled into said container.

A container for packaging and unwinding a welding wire, said container comprising:

• a square cardboard box with four side walls and four vertically extending corners, each defining an apex, an inner vertically extending tubular liner with an octagonal outer shape having four outer walls each generally overlying a side wall of said box and four alternate inner walls between two of said outer walls and spaced from said corner apexes to define generally triangular, vertical cavities and a vertically extending pressure rib extending from said apex to said inner wall of a corner cavity, said rib having a width to push said inner wall inwardly before said wire is coiled into said container.

A container for packaging and unwinding a welding wire, said container comprising:

• a square cardboard box with four side walls and four vertically extending corners, each defining an apex, an inner vertically extending tubular liner with an octagonal outer shape having four outer walls each generally overlying a side wall of said box and four alternate inner walls between two of said outer walls and spaced from said corner apexes to define generally triangular, vertical cavities and a vertically extending pressure rib extending from said apex to said inner wall of a corner cavity, said rib having a width to transmit force from said inner wall to said apex of said corner when said wire is coiled into said container.

A container for packaging and unwinding a welding wire, said container comprising:

• a square cardboard box with four side walls and four vertically extending corners, each defining an apex, an inner vertically extending tubular liner with an octagonal outer shape having four outer walls each generally overlying a side wall of said box and four alternate inner walls between two of said outer walls and spaced from said corner apexes to define generally triangular, vertical cavities and a vertically extending pressure rib extending from said apex to said inner wall of a corner cavity.

A container for packaging and unwinding a welding wire, said container comprising:

• a cardboard box with corners each defining an apex, an inner liner with walls extending diagonally across said corners to define generally triangular, vertical cavities and a vertically extending corner reinforcing element in each of said cavities, said element in each cavity having a pressure rib extending between said apex to said liner wall to apply a force against said corner apex as wire in said container pushes against said liner wall.