Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously measuring at least the width and thickness of a seamed portion of a can at the same point on the seamed portion. The apparatus comprises a measurement base for receiving the seamed portion of the can thereon, and a reference block secured to the measurement base the reference block including a reference contact portion to contact the outer surface of the seamed portion. A device for measuring the width of the seamed portion is mounted on the reference block and includes a measurement pin cooperating with the measurement base to clamp the seamed portion in the vertical direction. A device for measuring the thickness of the seamed portion is mounted on the reference block and includes a measurement block cooperating with the reference contact portion to clamp the seamed portion laterally. The apparatus may further comprise a device for measuring the can height and/or a device for measuring the countersink depth.

Abstract: An electrode roll for an electric resistance seam welding machine comprises a stator substantially made of copper or a copper alloy, a rotor mounted on the periphery of the stator, and substantially or in part made of copper or a copper alloy and rotatably a gap portion formed by the stator and the rotor. A conductive liquid metal, which is a fusible alloy composed mainly of gallium, is inserted in the gap portion through a filling hole and is sealed in the gap portion. At least the portion of the filling hole that may come in contact with the conductive liquid metal is fabricated of a metal or metal alloy which is hard to be corroded by the fusible alloy. The remaining surfaces of both rotor and stator facing the gap portion are covered with a layer or layers of a metal or metal alloy that is hard to be corroded by the fusible alloy. In at least one embodiment, such layer or layers are further covered with another thin layer of metal which has an excellent wettability by the fusible alloy.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the lifter pressure of a seamer for doubly seaming a can end to a can barrel by clamping a body of the apparatus between a lifter plate and a seaming chuck and elongating the body to a predetermined extent, wherein pressure is detected by a load cell, the pressure is transmitted as an electric signal and the pressure is digitally displayed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing pressurized, sealed containered food is disclosed, in which a predetermined quantity of low-temperature liquefied gas is charged through two or more low-temperature liquefied gas outlets into a succession of individual containers which have already a predetermined quantity of food including liquid content and are successively travelling upright with the top end open at a constant speed, and each container is subsequently sealed with a lid.

Abstract: A blank guide device for a resistance welding machine guides cylindrically-rolled blanks employed to produce can bodies to the welding point. The blank guide device includes a pair of blocks respectively constituting opposed L-shaped surfaces in place of a conventional Z-shaped guide portion.

Abstract: An electrode roll for electric resistance welding which contains a stator member at least partly made of Cu or Cu alloy, a rotor member at least partly made of Cu or Cu alloy and rotatably mounted on the stator member, and a fusible alloy mainly composed of gallium and filling as a conductive medium an annular gap between the stator and rotor members, and portions of those two members facing the gap and being made of Cu or Cu alloy are covered by an alloy layer containing Co and W in weight proportions of 90:10 to 30:70.

Abstract: A can and seaming tool for use in seaming a can end to a can body and having a seaming chuck and a seaming roll, said seaming chuck being adapted to fit said can end while said seaming roll is adapted to simultaneously press and seam the curling portion of said can end and the flanging portion of said can body, wherein the improvement comprises that at least one of said seaming chuck contacting said can end and the portion of said seaming roll frictionally contacting at least said can end is made from cermet of titanium carbonitride system (a composite sintered material composed of a metal and ceramics containing titanium carbides and titanium nitrides).

Abstract: The layers of ink formulations of different colors are transferred from a plurality of ink ductors onto predetermined areas of the outer periphery of a single ink form roller, and the body of a cylindrical container is pressed against said ink form roller and rotated as many times as the number of said ink ductors.

Abstract: A method of preventing the atmosphere from entering a heat-insulating container adapted to temporarily reserve a low-temperature liquefied gas, wherein a dry gas is constantly supplied to the inside of the heat-insulating container when it is in an inoperative state, in order to maintain the inside of the heat-insulating container in a dry gas atmosphere having a pressure slightly higher than the atmospheric pressure. The dry gas is a vaporized gas of a low-temperature liquefied gas of the same kind as the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used. The dry gas is led out in the gas phase from a supply container for supplying the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used, or is a gas obtained by vaporizing a part of the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used, outside the supply container.

Abstract: In a low-temperature liquefied gas constant outflow device having a heat-insulating container having an opening at the top, a cover member closing the opening of the heat-insulating container, a low-temperature liquefied gas outlet which runs through the base of the heat-insulating container, a level sensor which detects the level of low-temperature liquefied gas in the heat-insulating container, and a vaporized-gas exhaust conduit which opens from the cover member, the improvement wherein a pressure absorbing container is located within the heat-insulating container, a low-temperature liquefied gas supply conduit and a vaporized-gas exhaust conduit are both inserted into the pressure absorbing container through the cover member, a low-temperature liquefied gas outlet is provided in the pressure absorbing container, and a check valve is provided in the low-temperature liquefied gas supply conduit, which opens or closes in response to a signal from the level sensor.

Abstract: End closures for cans fed horizontally at given intervals at a high speed are shifted in direction, one after another, to be substantially perpendicular to a support passage extending substantially horizontally, received separately by the passage rapidly and positively, and lotted out when a predetermined number has been reached by the pieces received. Each lot thus compacted to a solid cylinderical form is put into an elongate paper bag, and the open end of the bag is closed.

Abstract: End closures for cans fed horizontally at given intervals at a high speed are shifted in direction, one after another, to be substantially perpendicular to a support passage extending substantially horizontally, received separately by the passage rapidly and positively, and lotted out when a predetermined number has been reached by the pieces received. Each lot thus compacted to a solid cylinderical form is put into an elongate paper bag, and the open end of the bag is closed.

Abstract: A method for high speed leak test for a metallic cover with a pull tab. When one wants to test whether a metallic cover with an opening-defining score line and a pull tab for breaking off a part of the cover defined by the score line has a leak, the cover is put in a closed chamber. The closed chamber is divided into an upper closed portion in which the tab is present and a lower closed portion in which the tab is absent, thereby making the cover the boundary. Pressurized air is then injected into the upper closed portion to test whether the cover has a leak by measuring the change in the air pressure within the lower closed portion.

Abstract: Both the inner and outer surfaces of a metal container are degreased with an organic solvent, and then without being subjected to cleaning, are provided with a surface layer having particular properties by electrolysis, or are electrophoretically treated to provide a coating.

Abstract: An electrode roll for resistance welding comprising a fixed portion which has a disc portion at the longitudinal center part of a shaft where the disc portion and the shaft are at right angles to each other; a rotary portion which surrounds the fixed portion and has inner surfaces forming two side gaps facing the two side surfaces of the disc portion and a peripheral gap facing the peripheral surface of the disc portion, respectively; and a conductive liquid metal received in each of the gaps, where the peripheral gap is so narrow that the above conductive liquid metal may be pulled up along the gap to fill the same when the above rotary portion rotates, and the side gaps are substantially wider than the peripheral gap.

Abstract: A drawn and ironed can body with integral bottom and a drawn and ironed can seamed with a top closure at the opening end are designed for packaging pressurized beverages and made of a sheet material thinner than that heretofore used for conventional drawn and ironed cans, and the top closure and the bottom resist buckling as might be caused by the actual internal pressure produced therein.

Abstract: A bag removal apparatus provided with a plurality of cutting assemblies, each cutting assembly consisting of cutting auxiliary rolls and a cutter for facilitating posttreatment of a paper bag by releasing the paper bag from a paper bag envelope encasing a long article and shredding the paper bag.

Abstract: A method of forming thin steel plate of predetermined dimensions into a tubular form such as a cylindrical or square tubular form and subjecting the side seam or the overlapped portion of the form to electric resistance seam welding by passing it between upper and lower electrodes, which comprises applying a higher welding current to both edge parts of the overlapped portion than to the other parts or the center of the overlapped portion thereby adjusting a welding current to such a value which does not substantially cause the formation of burrs but provides the center with a desired weld strength.

Abstract: Apparatus for simultaneously pinching a plurality of elongated bags disposed in parallel, side by side relation with one another and transferring the bags. The apparatus includes a gripper mechanism arranged to pinch each bag at two longitudinally spaced locations thereon and devices for moving the gripper mechanism while the bags are pinchingly thereby. Sensing devices are provided to detect the state of pinched engagement of the bags with the gripper mechanism. If one or more of the bags is not pinched or is improperly pinched by the gripper mechanism, the transfer motion is arrested to prevent damage to the bag or the apparatus. The apparatus can be utilized to remove paper bags containing stacks of metal can lids from boxes.

Abstract: An apparatus for painting the inner surface of the welded side seam of a can body with its top and bottom open. The apparatus uses an applicator roll having an annular projection with an acute vertical angle formed in the middle and both edges of the outer periphery.