Patent ID: 7331457

Claim:
A welding wire package containing a welding wire packaged as a coil of wire, the wire coil having an axis, axially opposite ends and an axially extending outer periphery about the axis, said package comprising: a cubic square-base outer box having inwardly facing and outwardly facing box side surfaces, a bottom and a top having an upper opening through which the welding wire is removed, one of the axially opposite ends of the wire coil supported by said outer box bottom; an octagonal-base internal container having inwardly facing and outwardly facing container surfaces and being of such dimensions as to be fully containable within said square-base area of said outer box such that portions of said outwardly facing container surfaces are supported by portions of said inwardly facing box side surfaces, the outer periphery of the packaged coil being maintained by said inwardly facing container surfaces such that the coil axis is a vertical axis when said outer box is resting on said bottom, said internal container having about the same height as said outer box and having a top opening; a bottom side of a brake element touching the other of the axially opposite ends of the wire coil and within said internal container, said brake element descending within said internal container during the unwinding of the wire coil.