Container for elongated articles
AssigneeLincoln Global, Inc.
InventorPaul A. Weissbrod
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Abstract
A container is provided for holding a predetermined mass of associated elongated cylindrical articles within a cavity. The container includes a bottom wall having a perimeter, a pair of spaced apart side walls extending upwardly from perimeter of the bottom wall, and a pair of spaced apart end walls extending upwardly from the perimeter of the bottom wall between the sidewalls. The container also includes at least one first step extending a height upward from the bottom wall and having a variable length, and at least one second step extending a height upward from the bottom wall and having an approximately fixed length less than the width of the container between the sidewalls.
Claims20
In combination, plural welding electrodes and a container for holding the plural welding electrodes;
- the container comprising:
- a bottom wall having a perimeter;
- at least one sidewall extending upward from the perimeter of the bottom wall to define a cavity having a first depth in which the plural welding electrodes are received in parallel arrangement
- at least one first step extending a first height upward from the bottom wall defining a second depth and having a length;
- the first step extending across the cavity, wherein the length of the first step is less than a width of the bottom wall such that at least one of the plural welding electrodes rests on the first step and is raised above another of the plurality of the welding electrodes by the first height, wherein the length of the at least one first step laterally offsets the one of the plural welding electrodes relative to the second of the plural welding electrodes to form a hexagonal arrangement of the plural welding electrodes.
In combination, plural welding electrodes and a container, the container comprising:
- a bottom wall having a perimeter;
- a pair of spaced apart side walls extending upwardly from perimeter of the bottom wall;
- a pair of spaced apart end walls extending upwardly from the perimeter of the bottom wall between the sidewalls;
- wherein said walls define a cavity that receives the plural welding electrodes in a parallel relationship to each other
- a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart steps between said pair of spaced apart end walls and each step extending a same height upward from the bottom wall and each step having a same length;
- wherein the length is less than the width of the container between the sidewalls;
- wherein one of the plural welding electrodes is supported on the pair of longitudinally spaced apart steps above another of the plural welding electrodes, wherein the length of the at least one first step laterally offsets the one of the plural welding electrodes relative to the second of the plural welding electrodes to form a hexagonal arrangement of the plural welding electrodes.
In combination, plural welding electrodes and a container for holding the plural welding electrodes, the container comprising:
- a bottom wall having a perimeter;
- a pair of spaced apart side walls extending upwardly from perimeter of the bottom wall at an angle;
- a pair of spaced apart end walls extending upwardly from the perimeter of the bottom wall between the sidewalls the walls defining a cavity that receives the plural welding electrodes in a parallel and adjacent relationship;
- means for positioning one of the plural welding electrodes at a height above of the plural welding electrode within the container;
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- wherein the means for positioning has a length less than the width of the bottom wall, wherein the length laterally offsets the one of the plural welding electrodes relative to the second of the plural welding electrodes to form a hexagonal arrangement of the plural welding electrodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.