Simultaneous-access surfaces for reel-flange fasteners

An apparatus for receiving, storing, and dispensing a stranded material, the apparatus comprising:

• a tubular member, having an axial direction and a radial direction, to receive a stranded material wrapped therearound;
• and
• a first flange engaging the tubular member and comprising
• a core portion, having an arbor aperture therein to support the apparatus on an arbor through the arbor aperture,
• an outer portion extending radially away from the core portion to an outer edge to restrain the stranded material in the axial direction,
• the core portion being corrugated to comprise a plurality of web portions, each web portion of the plurality of web portions being offset axially from an adjacent web portion, and
• a plurality of connecting walls, each connecting wall of the plurality of connecting walls extending between two adjacent web portions of the plurality of web portions, the plurality of connector walls further having a plurality of corrugations alternatingly displaced in a circumferential direction along a radial path.

An apparatus for receiving, storing, and dispensing a stranded material, the apparatus comprising:

• a tubular member, having an axial direction and a radial direction, to receive a stranded material wrapped therearound;
• a first flange engaging the tubular member and comprising
• an arbor wall defining an arbor aperture to support the apparatus on an arbor through the arbor aperture, and
• an outer portion extending radially away from the arbor wall to an outer edge to restrain the stranded material in the axial direction;
• the first flange wherein the outer portion has a plurality of corrugations in which at least one corrugation thereof extends from substantially the arbor wall to substantially the outer edge;
• and
• the corrugations of the outer portion further comprise outer webs, offset from one another, and connector walls extending between adjacent outer webs, the connector walls having a plurality of corrugations alternatingly displaced in a circumferential direction along a radial path.