Patent ID: 8245846

Claim:
A box for shipping and dispensing a welding wire wound into a generally cylindrical mass having a cylindrical core cavity concentric with a vertical axis, said box having a number of flat sidewalls defining a wire receiving compartment with a lateral, polygonal cross-sectional shape and at least two flaps, each flap connected to the top of a sidewall and having an elongated flat body with at least two of said flaps having an integrally formed crown section containing a wire outlet opening, wherein the two flaps on two different sidewalls are assembled by an element holding crown sections in overlapping relationship have a folded down position extending across said polygonal shape and overlapped above said wire and an assembled position with said flaps connected into a tent configuration with said element fixing said crown section in a horizontal plane above said wire mass with said wire opening aligned with said axis; wherein said element is a tubular grommet extending through said wire openings of the overlapped crown sections with a lower fixed shoulder and a spaced camming shoulder to capture said crown sections between said shoulders so said grommet can guide said wire as it is dispensed.