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US 12,017,267 B2Granted
Shell with expandable rivet button and tooling therefor
AssigneeStolle Machinery Company, LLC
InventorsDennis Cornelius Stammen, Mark Mitchell, Christopher Macke
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Abstract
A can end including a central panel with an expandable bubble disposed thereon is provided. The use of an expandable bubble allows for an expandable rivet button and thereafter an expandable rivet that has an enhanced overlap of a tab body. Such an expandable rivet allows for the use of a metal sheet with a thinner base thickness.
Claims15
A method of forming a can end with an expanded rivet comprising:
- providing a sheet material with a base thickness between about 0.0060 inch and 0.0080 inch;
- forming said sheet material into a shell;
- forming an expandable bubble on said shell;
- forming said shell into a can end;
- forming said expandable bubble into an expandable rivet button with a generally planar top portion, wherein said expandable rivet button top portion has a thickness of between about 0.0050 inch and 0.0077 inch;
- and
- performing finishing operations on said can end,
- wherein forming said expandable bubble into an expandable rivet button includes:
- forming said expandable rivet button with a height of between about 0.059 inch and about 0.039 inch.
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A method of forming a can end with an expanded rivet comprising:
- providing a sheet material with a base thickness between about 0.0060 inch and 0.0080 inch forming said sheet material into a shell;
- forming an expandable bubble on said shell;
- forming said shell into a can end;
- forming said expandable bubble into an expandable rivet button with a generally planar top portion, wherein said expandable rivet button top portion has a thickness of between about 0.0050 inch and 0.0077 inch;
- and performing finishing operations on said can end, wherein forming said expandable bubble into an expandable rivet button includes:
- forming said expandable rivet button with a height of about 0.054 inch.
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A method of forming a can end with an expanded rivet comprising:
- providing a sheet material with a base thickness between about 0.0060 inch and 0.0080 inch;
- forming said sheet material into a shell;
- forming an expandable bubble on said shell;
- forming said shell into a can end;
- forming said expandable bubble into an expandable rivet button with a generally planar top portion, wherein said expandable rivet button top portion has a thickness of between about 0.0050 inch 0.0077 inch;
- and
- performing finishing operations on said can end,
- wherein said expandable rivet button has a transition portion between the top portion and sidewall of the expandable rivet button, wherein the transition portion has a radius of about 0.014 inch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.