Arrangement utilizing star wheels and material supply stations for manufacturing a paper can

An arrangement for manufacturing a paper container from blanks of material, comprising a first transport wheel having a horizontally extending first rotational axis, and a second transport wheel arranged adjacent the first transport wheel and having a horizontally extending second rotational axis, and processing stations operatively arranged with respect to the first and second transport wheels, the processing stations associated with the first transport wheel being configured to heat an end area of a sleeve formed with a seam from a blank and into which sleeve a lid is set and being further configured to heat a rim of the lid and an associated end area of the sleeve and to press together an end area of the sleeve and the rim, and the processing stations associated with the second transport wheel being configured to assemble a bottom into the sleeve, and to heat and press together the bottom and the sleeve, wherein the transport wheels and the processing stations are operatively arranged on one side of a vertically disposed central wall of a joint machine frame, and driving elements for the transport wheels are arranged on an exposed side of the vertically disposed central wall opposite from the one side on which the transport wheels and processing stations are disposed for easy accessibility.