Coil and package wall engaging payout tube for radially dispensing coil

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A tube for insertion into a coil of flexible material wound in a series of figure-8s with a radial opening extending into the axial opening through which the inner end of the material can be drawn out without twist has a flange spaced from its free end and a second flange adjacent the free end with the space between the two flanges being substantially equal to the wall thickness of a container in which the packages coil is to be enclosed. The outer flange is interrupted at two points and has an outwardly bent portion. The tube is inserted from the outside into the radial opening of the coil, which is then placed inside the container with the outer end of the tube directed towards an opening …