System for dynamically adjusting positioning of a toolpack of a can bodymaker and can bodymaker including same
AssigneeStolle Machinery Company, LLC
InventorsJoseph John Allen Maurer, Stephen Dane Christensen, Ian Kenneth Scholey
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Abstract
A toolpack arrangement for a can bodymaker having a frame. The toolpack includes a toolpack having a number of forming dies and an adjustment arrangement. The adjustment includes a number of adjustment mechanisms coupled between the toolpack and the frame, each adjustment mechanism being dynamically adjustable so as to selectively adjust the positioning of the toolpack with regard to the frame and/or a ram body of the can bodymaker as the ram body passes within the toolpack during normal can body making operations of the can bodymaker.
Claims14
A toolpack arrangement for a can bodymaker having a frame, the toolpack arrangement comprising:
- a toolpack having a number of forming dies;
- and
- an adjustment arrangement comprising a number of adjustment mechanisms structured to be coupled between the toolpack and the frame, each adjustment mechanism being structured to dynamically selectively adjust the positioning of the toolpack with regard to the frame and/or a ram body of the can bodymaker as the ram body passes within the toolpack during normal can body making operations of the can bodymaker.
A can bodymaker for forming a plurality of can bodies, the can bodymaker comprising:
- a frame;
- a ram;
- an operating mechanism structured to provide a reciprocating motion to the ram;
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- a toolpack arrangement comprising:
- a toolpack having a number of forming dies positioned such that the ram passes therewithin when provided with the reciprocating motion by the operating mechanism;
- and
- an adjustment arrangement comprising a number of adjustment mechanisms coupled between the toolpack and the frame, each adjustment mechanism being dynamically adjustable so as to selectively adjust the positioning of the toolpack with regard to the frame and/or the ram as the ram passes within the toolpack during normal can body making operations of the can bodymaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.