Patent ID: 8286906

Claim:
An apparatus for receiving, storing, and dispensing a stranded material, the apparatus comprising: a tubular member having an axial direction and a radial direction, configured to receive a stranded material wrapped therearound; and a first flange configured to engage the tubular member and comprising a core portion, having an arbor aperture therein and configured to support the apparatus on an arbor through the arbor aperture, and an outer portion extending radially away from the core portion to an outer edge and configured to restrain the stranded material in an axial direction, the core portion being corrugated to comprise a plurality of wedge-shaped web portions, each wedge-shaped web portion of the plurality of wedge-shaped web portions being offset axially from each of its two adjacent wedge-shaped web portions of the plurality of wedge-shaped web portions, and each wedge-shaped web portion of the plurality of wedge-shaped web portions being dimensionally of the same order of magnitude as each of its two adjacent wedge-shaped web portions of the plurality of wedge-shaped web portions.