Damage indicating material for a reel
AssigneeReel Guard, Inc.
InventorKenneth R Penkaty
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Abstract
A substrate made of a material such as cardboard has characteristics sufficient to visually indicate an occurrence of damage when scraped or punctured to identify damage. The substrate has a flat shape with top and bottom elongated edges and a plurality of breaks along at least the top elongated edge to facilitate bending at a substantially ninety degree angle and be wrapped around a payload carried on a reel at an inner corner where an outside surface of the payload and an inside surface of a flange of the reel meet. The substrate can have a perforated fold parallel to the elongated direction substantially perpendicular to the breaks. The substrate is secured to a reel by stapling, taping or plastic shrink wrapping. A visual warning message can be placed on the substrate to aid forklift drivers.
Claims35
A substrate comprising a material having characteristics sufficient to visually indicate an occurrence of damage to a payload carried on a reel, wherein the reel with the payload has an inner corner, wherein the inner corner comprises both an outside surface of the payload and an inside surface of a flange of the reel that meet at a corner location, wherein the substrate comprises two elongated edges and a fold running parallel to the elongated edges, and wherein the substrate is bent at the fold and wrapped around the payload at the inner corner of the reel so that the bent substrate covers both the outside surface of the payload and the inside surface of the flange of the reel and the payload is between the substrate and the reel at the corner location where they meet.
A method of wrapping a material around a payload on a reel comprising the steps of (a) obtaining a material comprising two elongated edges and a fold running parallel to the elongated edges, the material having characteristics sufficient to visually indicate an occurrence of damage to a payload carried on a reel, wherein the reel with the payload has an inner corner, wherein the inner corner comprises both an outside surface of the payload and an inside surface of a flange of the reel that meet at a corner location;
- and (b) bending the material at the fold and wrapping the material around the payload at the corner location so that the payload is between the material and the reel and so that the bent substrate covers both the outside surface of the payload and the inside surface of the flange of the reel at the corner location where they meet.
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