Dispensing container

Claim 1

A dispensing container for coiled strand material comprising in combination: a pair of opposed major side walls and a pair of opposed minor side walls; end closure flaps connected to end edges at one end of each said major and minor side walls and foldable to form an end of the container; a pair of underlying closure flaps connected to other end edges of said minor side flaps, each of said underlying closure flaps having an arcuate cut-out and adapted to be folded inwardly in overlapping relation with each other to provide an aperture; a die-cut closure flap connected to the outer end edge of one of said major side walls; a coil of strand material wound in a plurality of figure-8s for payout from the interior of the coil; a hollow feed tube guide extending radially through the body of the coil and having a bore through which the free end of the strand material is passed as it is being unwound, said tube guide having an annular flange and a pair of projections spaced from said flange; said underlying flaps frictionally engaging the outer surface of the tube guide, said die-cut flap being interlockingly engaged between the flange and projections of said tube guide; and an outermost closure flap conneted to the other end edge of the other major side wall, said outermost flap having a circular perforated area for engaging the outer end of the tube guide for protecting it during shipment.