Abstract: An automatic system for accumulating, counting, stacking and bagging can ends. The system is designed to protect the end against damage by minimizing the handling of the end. An automatic dispenser counts and dispenses can ends to one of a pair of end stacks which are mounted for rotation about a vertical axis. The end stacks are indexed from a loading position to an unloading position where the filled stack is pivoted from a normally vertical attitude to a horizontal discharging attitude. Ends are discharged to an automatic bagging system for packaging and storage.

Abstract: A mechanism for locating a hollow tubular can body relative to an internal support mandrel including a resilient member adapted to bear against a portion of the can body in order to positively locate same. Also included is a fixed relationship between the mandrel and support apparatus located on the machine whereby the biasing of the can body toward said support apparatus acts to adjust the axial position of the can body with respect to at least one of its surfaces.

Abstract: A system for the reject of a single container from a row of multiple closely spaced containers on a moving conveyor. A circuit supplies a signal to a reject mechanism which is a solenoid actuated air blast to remove the container accurately. The circuit combines a shift register output with blanking signals in a first gate and a container position control sensing signal with the output of the first gate in a second gate to produce the appropriate reject signal. Mechanical fine tuning is provided to enable positioning the container signal within the appropriate time window.

Abstract: A signal emitted from a transducer responsive to the relative power applied during a welding process is enhanced electronically and mathematically to be of use in controlling welder operating parameters and/or in rejecting defective welds. Electronically the signal refined to minimize unnecessary noise in the signal and mathematically the signal is modified and analyzed against a standard. In a high speed welding operation automatic means are necessary to assure weld quality and control welder operation since the rapidity with which the welding takes place is too fast for manual readjustment.

Abstract: To measure the relative power during a welding process, a position sensitive transducer is attached to a welding electrode to submit a signal in response to electrode motion. An accelerometer, carried on an axle of an electrode roll for a Soudronics pulse type resistance welder, will emit a signal indicative of the quality of the weld. The accelerometer measures the forging taking place during welding by means of its position sensitivity and the amount of forging has been found to be a function of the characteristics of the weld.

Abstract: An inverted press for producing multiple drawn metal containers combines in one press the functions of cupping and drawing presses. The press includes a blanking and cupping station and several drawing and redrawing stations, disposed one adjacent the other and rendered serially operative by a vertically reciprocable slide assembly. At each stage of operation the material, semifinished article or finished article is under complete control. A method for producing a drawn container by multiple forming and reforming of a drawn article, is also provided.

Abstract: A retained ring type lever tab for easy open containers. The tab is provided with two dog leg levers which join at the forward end to form a triangular nose. These levers which in cross section are made up of a pair of parallel flanges 0.050" in width connected by an outer curl of radius 0.030" are particularly effective in transferring the opening force to the displaceable panel in the end. The tab is characterized by a low weight and a high mechanical advantage.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed and can be used to fabricate a complete container end closure including an inwardly tipped cover hook located along the peripheral extremity. The apparatus and its use in performing the method are unique in that one tool does all the forming to produce the complete end closure. More particularly, the cover hook is preformed by a first tool operation and then finally formed by a subsequent step wherein the preformed end is reformed to a final configuration in a step which is completely independent of the first tool.

Abstract: An envelope for a bed with side rails, comprised of an enveloping portion for enveloping the side rails, and a flap positionable between a mattress and mattress support and securable to the latter, to maintain the mattress in bed alignment and close off any gap between a side rail and the mattress or mattress support, and thereby prevent injury to a bed occupant.

Abstract: A temperature compensating circuit for taking into account operating temperature changes of a Hall effect transducer to compensate for Hall output DC offset changes using a resistance circuit including a thermistor for offset feedback control of an operational amplifier in accordance with varying temperature. The circuit also includes a load response input portion to power the Hall effect transducer to compensate for Hall gain change versus temperature.

Abstract: A method of making a retained tab for a container end and a design for same are disclosed. The tab opens in such a way that multiple forms of stress are induced in the tab before the tab will break away from the end. Specifically, the tab endures first a bending stress and then a torsional stress. The mode of stress being defined by the construction of the tab.

Abstract: A material for protecting the inside surface of a side seamed cylindrical container is disclosed. The material is of a thixotropic nature whereby edge protection is assured for a lap seam, a can seam or a welded seam, the latter being either a lap or butt-type joint. All of the foregoing constructions exhibit certain internal surface irregularities exposing raw metal to the interior of the container which must be appropriately covered in order to maintain sanitary protection of the contents ultimately packed within the container. Thixotropic materials have been found to provide the requisite surface adherence after application and until curing; thus, affording improved coverage of the various raw surfaces.

Abstract: A metal forming tool useful to form internal and external impressions of various configurations upon two piece can bodies of round, oval, triangular, rectangular or irregular and unsymmetrical cross-section.

Abstract: A can end conveying device for conveying ends from a first press to a second press. The conveyor has an input end and a divertor downstream therefrom. Ends are conveyed along a first track to a stacking station which feeds the ends through a first conduit in a block and then through a gate and onto the track for the second press. When the supply of ends from the first press terminates or falls below the demand of the second press, the gate is shifted and ends are fed by an operator onto a manual feeding track for the second press. When the supply of ends from the first press exceeds the demand of the second press, the divertor is activated by a sensor on the stack and diverts the ends from the first track to a second track leading to a manual bagging station. A novel gate structure is disclosed which facilitates jam free operation of the device.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for separating and recovering zinc and zinc alloy particles which are nickel plated from non-ferrous non-magnetic automotive scrap material. The scrap material is transported on a belt conveyor past a magnetic field where the path of the zinc particles with nickel are deflected into a path separated from the remaining scrap material. Subsequently the zinc and zinc alloy materials are recovered by a pyrometallurgical process.

Abstract: Apparatus for using radiant energy to cure inked or coated objects such as containers in which the objects are rotated and revolved at least part of the way around a linear energy source. A reflector is provided which focuses the energy on the surface of the rotating object and tracks it in its revolution around the energy source.

Abstract: Methods by which a dry-formed loose fibrous web is bonded by applying to one of its surfaces a low add-on level of a relatively high binder solids concentration bonding material to form a once-bonded web, and to the other side of the web, a greater add-on level of a relatively lower solids concentration bonding material, the first-applied emulsion preferably adding from about 20% to about 40% binder solids by weight, and the second-applied adding the rest of the total binder solids to be included in the fibrous web product. The bonding material can be a solution or emulsion. Preferably, the first and second-applied bonding materials are water-based latex emulsions, the solids concentration of the first-applied emulsion is from about 15% to about 25% by weight, that of the second-applied emulsion is from about 10% to about 20% by weight based on the total binder solids to be included in the fibrous web product, and a vacuum draws the second-applied bonding material into the web.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for forming a nonwoven fibrous web on a foraminous forming surface moving at a velocity in excess of about 500 feet per minute. In forming satisfactory uniform webs, the fibers are conveyed to the forming surface in a gaseous stream whereby the relative surface-to-fiber velocity along the moving surface is maintained within a critical ratio relative to the fiber velocity normal to the moving surface.

Abstract: A device having at least one, preferably a plurality of air turning foils situated upstream of and at the level of the region between a fiber distributor and an underlying moving forming surface. Terminal edge portions of the foils direct ambient air in the direction of forming surface movement to impart to fibers in transit between the distributor and forming wire a uniform velocity component of movement in said direction. Each foil preferably is convex from upstream of the foil when viewed in cross section, is parallel to and equidistant from the other, and has its terminal edge portion parallel to the forming surface.