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US 4,331,014 AGranted
Can beading apparatus
AssigneeGulf & Western Manufacturing Company
InventorsStanley J. Miller, James W. Jensen, Richard J. Heniser
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AssigneeGulf & Western Manufacturing Company
InventorsStanley J. Miller, James W. Jensen, Richard J. Heniser
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Apparatus is provided for forming a chime bead adjacent the closed end of a seamless cup-shaped metal can body and a plurality of peripheral beads intermediate the opposite ends of the can body. The apparatus includes a plurality of beading spindles receiving and supporting can bodies for movement along an arcuate path. The beading spindles are provided with beading tool portions corresponding to the chime and intermediate beads to be formed on a can body. The frame supports axially offset and sequentially arranged outer beading rails positioned along the arcuate path of spindle movement. During movement of the spindles along the path between input and output stations of the apparatus, can bodies on the spindles are rotated about the spindle axes and, as each can body moves past the outer beading rails, the beading tool portions of the spindles and the outer beading rails cooperatively engage a can body therebetween to sequentially form first the chime bead and then the intermediate beads on the can body. The outer beading rails are supported on the frame of the apparatus for adjustment of the positions of the beading rails axially, laterally and radially with respect to the axis of the arcuate path of movement of the spindles.
Apparatus for peripherally beading the side wall of a cup-shaped metal can body having open and closed ends comprising, a frame, can body supporting beading spindle means having a spindle axis and axially arranged first and second inner beading tool means, means for supporting and moving said spindle means and a can body supported thereby in a given direction along an arcuate path relative to said frame, said arcuate path having a second axis parallel to and radially spaced from said spindle axis, means to rotate said beading spindle means and a can body supported thereby about said spindle axis during movement of said beading spindle means and can body along said path, and first and second outer beading tool means corresponding respectively to said first and second inner beading tool means and supported on said frame to extend sequentially in said given direction along said path, said first inner and outer beading tool means and said second inner and outer beading tool means being cooperable during movement of said spindle means along said path to sequentially form first and second peripheral bead means in the wall of said can body, said second bead means being between said first bead means and the open end of said can body.
Apparatus for peripherally beading the side wall of a cup-shaped metal can body having open and closed ends comprising, a frame, can body supporting spindle means having inner beading tool means thereon, said spindle means having a spindle axis, means for supporting and moving said spindle means and a can body supported thereby along an arcuate path relative to said frame, said arcuate path having a second axis parallel to and radially spaced from said spindle axis, arcuate outer beading tool means supported on said frame and extending along said path, said outer beading tool means being positioned on said frame relative to said second axis for said inner and outer beading tool means to peripherally bead the wall of a can body on said spindle means moving therepast, and means for adjusting the position of said outer beading tool means relative to said second axis, said adjusting means including tool support means on said frame and carrying said outer beading tool means, said outer beading tool means being arcuate rail member means, and a plurality of individually axially adjustable wedges between said tool support means and rail member means, said wedges being spaced apart along said rail member means for adjusting the position of said rail member means radially of said second axis.
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