Spool for wire

Claim 1

WIRE SPOOLING EQUIPMENT COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) A WIRE AND CABLE SPOOL HAVNG COIL-RESTING AND NESTING PERIPHERAL INTERIOR END PORTIONS AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF SHELLS COMPRISING CONICAL FLANGES HAVING THEIR SMALL-DIAMETER PORTIONS CONNECTED TO DISPOSE THE FLANGES IN COAXIAL RELATION, SAID FLANGES EXTENDING IN DIRECTIONS AWAY FROM EACH OTHER AND HAVING SMOOTH AXIALLY INNER CONVEX SURFACES DEFINING CONICAL SURFACES OF REVOLUTION, (B) AXIALLY AND RADIALLY INWARDLY PROTRODUING MEANS ON AND INTEGRAL WITH THE PERIPHERAL PORTIONS OF THE FLANGES, FOR CATCHING AND HOLDING LOOSE COILS OF WIRE WHICH MAY SHIFT AWAY FROM THE BODY PORTIONS OF THE SPOOLWHEN THE WIRE BECOMES SLACK, SAID MEANS INCLUDING AXIALLY AND RADIALLY INWARDLY CURVED AND DISPOSED ANNULAR BEADS OF APPRECIABLE CROSS SECTIONAL RADIUS AND OF AT LEAST PARTIALLY CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION, SAID BEADS COMPRISING CONTINUATIONS OF THE CONICAL FLANGES AND CONVEX SURFACES THEREOF AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY WHOLLY POSITOINED AXIALLY INWARD OF THE INNER CONVEX SURFACES AND CONICAL SURFACES OF REVOLUTION OF THE FLANGES, AND ABRUPTLY JUTTING OUT FROM SAID CONVEX SURFACES TO PROVIDE ABRUPT AND RELATIVELY STEEP ABUTMENT SHOULDERS OF APPRECIABLE HEIGHT TO HALT AND HOLD THE SAID COILS OF WIRE, (C) A MANDREL PASSING THROUGH SAID SPOOL, (D) MEANS ON SAID MANDREL, ENGAGING THE SPOOL AND MOUNTING THE SAME FOR ROTATION WITH THE MANDREL, (E) SAID SHELLS BEING FORMED OF SEPARATE PIECES OF SHEET METAL AND COMPRISING RADIALLY INWARDLY EXTENDING FLANGES AT THEIR SMALL DIAMETER PORTIONS, SAID FLANGES BEING JOINED TO SECURE THE SHELLS IN COAXIAL ALIGNMENT, (F) SAID ANNULAR BEADS BEING HOLLOW AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION.