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AssigneesThe Coca-Cola Company, Ardagh MP Group Netherlands B.V.
InventorsPhilippe NIEC, Marc LEMIALE, John E. ADAMS, Yuping LIN
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The principles of the present invention further provide both a shaped metal container and its preforms that exhibit a rounded grain structure characteristic created by an annealing process and a method for making a shaped metal container. The process of making said metal container results in a quicker process time and uses less metals (at least 10% metal weight savings), thus allowing for a decrease in the costs of making such shaped metal containers. A shaped metal container may include work hardened rolled sheet-metal defining a sidewall, an opening, and a base, where at least one section along the sidewall has grains with an average aspect ratio less than about 4 to 1.
A method for making a shaped metal container, the container including a container middle section having at least one middle section diameter Dm, the container middle section being connected at one end to a container bottom section having at least one bottom section diameter Db, and at the other end connected to a container top section having a container opening, and having at least one top section diameter Dt, the method comprising:
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A shaped metal container, comprising work hardened rolled sheet-metal defining a sidewall, an opening, and a base, at least one section along the sidewall having grains with an average aspect ratio less than about 4 to 1.
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A method for producing a shaped metal container, said method comprising:
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