Abstract: A water hose includes a helically shaped coiled tube having interior and exterior elliptical cross-sections with a flexural modulus greater than the flexural modulus of a coiled tube having interior and exterior circular cross-sections and the same neutral center line length as the elliptical cross-sections, but otherwise having the same properties as the elliptical cross-sections. The tube is made of extruded plastic resin having a durometer hardness measurement approximately in the range of 70-80 Shore A and has on its periphery ridges extending longitudinally at right angles to the elliptical cross-sections. In first and second embodiments, the elliptical cross-sections have major and minor axes respectively extending in the direction of the coil longitudinal axis and in planes extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis, and vice versa.

Abstract: A roll of wire is captured in a cardboard container so the roll is rotatable in the container about a rotation axis of the roll. The container has opposite sidewalls with aligned slots receiving ends of a shaft about which a spool carrying the roll turns. Each side wall includes three panels in different parallel planes; two of these panels include slots with aligned shoulders supporting the shaft. The container has a slot for enabling the wire to be paid from the roll as the roll turns about its rotation axis and a slit having edges for holding the wire in place.

Abstract: A water hose includes a heclically shaped coiled tube having interior and exterior elliptical cross-sections with a flexural modulus greater than the flexural modulus of a coiled tube having interior and exterior circular cross-sections and the same neutral center line length as the elliptical cross-sections, but otherwise having the same properties as the elliptical cross-sections. The tube is made of extruded plastic resin having a durometer hardness measurement approximately in the range of 70-80 Shore A and has on its periphery ridges extending longitudinally at right angles to the elliptical cross-sections. In first and second embodiments, the elliptical cross-sections have major and minor axes respectively extending in the direction of the coil longitudinal axis and in planes extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis, and vice versa.