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A reusable guide device for use in guiding elongate filament such as wire from a coil contained within a package or carton, the guide device including a tubular guide member adapted to be inserted radially into the coil and having means for securing an outer end of the guide member within an opening

A reusable guide device for use in guiding elongate filament such as wire from a coil contained within a package or carton, the guide device including a tubular guide member adapted to be inserted radially into the coil and having means for securing an outer end of the guide member within an opening in the carton so that the elongate filament may be paid out from the coil through the guide member. Restraint means in the form of a plurality of finger barriers are provided within the guide member and cooperate with the elongate filament to prevent its retraction or withdrawal back into the package.

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A device for guiding an elongate filament from a coil of said filament, comprising a tubular guide sleeve having first and second ends, a radially disposed retainer formed on said sleeve adjacent one of said ends, said retainer having an outer peripheral surface tapered inwardly toward said one end

A device for guiding an elongate filament from a coil of said filament, comprising a tubular guide sleeve having first and second ends, a radially disposed retainer formed on said sleeve adjacent one of said ends, said retainer having an outer peripheral surface tapered inwardly toward said one end of said sleeve and defining a substantially planar stop surface spaced a predetermined longitudinal distance from said one end of said sleeve, a radial annular flange formed on said sleeve in predetermined longitudinally spaced relation from said stop surface on said retainer and defining with said retainer a locking recess therebetween, said retainer being of lesser radial extent than said flange so as to enable insertion of said one of said ends and said retainer through an opening of predetermined diameter in a panel member with said flange abutting the side of the panel from which said retainer is inserted, a locking member adapted for releasable cooperation with said locking recess and said retainer to maintain said sleeve in mounted relation on said panel member when said one of said ends is inserted through said opening in said panel member, and restraint means comprising a plurality of generally radially inwardly directed fingers disposed internally of said tubular sleeve and extending about substantially the full periphery of the inner surface of said sleeve, said fingers being spaced longitudinally from said retainer and flange toward the other end of said sleeve and having sufficient flexibility to enable insertion of an elongate filament generally centrally therebetween in a predetermined direction while maintaining frictional engagement with the peripheral surface of the elongate filament so as to substantially restrain movement of the filament in a direction reverse to said predetermined direction.