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US 8,627,698 B2Granted
Deformation of thin walled bodies
AssigneeEnvases (UK) Limited
InventorsSantiago Garcia Campo, Juan Saiz Goiria
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Abstract
A thin walled body is deformed in a process in which the body is gripped securely in a holding station and, while gripped in the holding station, tooling engages to deform the peripheral wall of the body at a predetermined wall zone. The tooling is provided at a tooling station which is adjacent the holding station during deformation. The predetermined wall zone is co-aligned with the tooling by rotation of the body about an axis prior to securing at the holding station.
Claims12
A method of deforming a thin walled body comprising:
- (i) holding the body gripped securely in a holding station of a holding table of a multi-station necking machine;
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- (ii) advancing a multi-station tooling table of the necking machine relative to the holding table whilst the body is gripped in the holding station to an advanced position wherein the body engages tooling to deform a peripheral wall of the body at a predetermined wall zone to coordinate with a printed design on the peripheral wall of the body, the tooling being provided at a tooling station which is adjacent the holding station during deformation;
- wherein the predetermined wall zone is co-aligned with the tooling by rotation of the body about an axis.
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Apparatus for deforming thin walled bodies comprising:
- i) a multi-station necking machine including a holding table with multiple holding stations for securely gripping the bodies;
- ii) a multi-station tooling table advanceable with respect to the holding table, one of the stations of the tooling table comprising a coordinated deformation tooling station including tooling arranged to engage with and deform a given body at a predetermined wall zone on a peripheral wall of the given body whilst the given body is gripped securely in a corresponding holding station, the tooling table being positioned at an advanced position adjacent the holding table for deformation of the given body;
- iii) determination means for determining the orientation of the given body relative to a reference datum situation;
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- iv) means for co-ordinated movement to reconfigure the given body about an axis of the given body to accord with the datum situation prior to the given body being gripped at the holding station in a fixed orientation for deforming of the peripheral wall of the given body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.