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US 11,103,914 B2Granted
Can manufacturing method, can manufacturing device, can, and can manufacturing tool set
AssigneeToyo Seikan Co., Ltd.
InventorsKiyosumi Manita, Mitsuhiko Aoyagi
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Abstract
A can 1 is provided with a mouth part (4), a shoulder part (3), and a body part (2). The shoulder part (3) of the can (1) is decorated, without damaging the shoulder part (3), by forming at least one of a recess and a protrusion by a rotating process in which the shoulder part (3) is held between a receiver (11a), having a concave-convex shape, of an inner roll (11) and an outer roll (12) having a convex-concave shape corresponding to the concave-convex shape of the receiver (11a) of the inner roll (11).
Claims9
A method for manufacturing a can comprising:
- forming a shoulder reduced in a diameter toward a side of a mouth of the can on a side of an upper end of a cylindrical body of the can in a can axis direction, wherein the shoulder has an inclination angle of 10° to 50° between a surface formed by extending the shoulder to a side of the body and the body, and a thickness of 0.1 to 0.3 mm,
- inserting an inner roll into the can from the mouth, wherein the inner roll comprises a shaft serving as a rotating axis of the inner roll and a receiver connected to the shaft at a bottom of the inner roll, and the receiver, has at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion, has a maximum outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of the mouth, and has an external shape of a bevel shape along a shape of the shoulder;
- receiving the shoulder inclined at said inclination angle from inside with the receiver of the inner roll;
- pressing the shoulder from outside with an outer roll, wherein the outer roll has at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion corresponding to at least one of the concave portion and the convex portion provided on the receiver of the inner roll;
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- forming a three-dimensionally shaped portion on the shoulder by rotating the inner roll and the outer roll relative to the can, in a state in which the receiver of the inner roll and the outer roll clamp the shoulder from outside and inside.
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