Abstract: A press for converting ends for cans and the like is provided with a conveyor extending sideways through the press to carry shells for processing into can ends along an end converting path. Upper and lower conversion tooling is located along the end converting path at the top and bottom of the conveyor, defining a plurality of stations on opposite sides of the center of the tooling for working progressively on shells moved by the conveyor along the end converting path. First and second tab tooling, auxiliary to the main tooling means, is located on opposite sides of the conveyor extending transversely thereof and defining a tab forming path which bridges the end converting path. Opening tabs are formed from a strip of metal stock fed through the tab tooling and the strip with completed tabs is guided in a loop from the tab tooling back to a staking and attachment station on the end converting path for removal from the strip and attachment to the shells.

Abstract: A progressive forging machine is disclosed in which a tool pack is removably mounted on the machine to facilitate tool changeovers and the like. The tool pack includes tool carriers guided in bearings on the tool pack for reciprocating movement by a bolster mounted on the machine frame. Because the tools are guided by the tool pack itself, inaccuracy of bolster alignment does not adversely affect the position of the tooling. The tool pack also provides a shear, a transfer, strippers, and kickouts for both the dies and the tools. The drives for the various components on the tool pack are provided on the main machine frame and are either automatically connected during installation of the tool pack or are easily connected at the time of such installation. Because the tooling is guided by the tool pack itself, deflections within the main machine frame created by forming loads do not adversely affect tooling alignment.

Abstract: A conversion system for converting plain container end pieces into easy-open end pieces in a single press includes multiple slides, all driven by the press and carried within the confines of the press frame but independently adjustable and controllable. At least one of the slides carries conversion tooling and the other carries tab forming tooling and is arranged adjacent the conversion tooling so that the tab strip may be fed into the conversion tooling for attachment of the tabs to the end pieces by the conversion tooling. High speed feed rolls having helical gripping grooves are also provided to feed plain end pieces to the conversion tooling for forming and for attachment of the tabs.

Abstract: A cam actuated ejector is provided with a shell press having a crankshaft for reciprocating a slide to which die tooling is mounted and having a forming station in which the die tooling forms a part to be ejected. The ejector includes a kicker bar slidably received within a recess in the press and which is in close proximity to and substantially coplanar with a part to be ejected. The kicker bar is positively reciprocated by a cam assembly that is synchronously engaged with the crankshaft, which operates the press slide, such that an end of the kicker bar cyclically moves at a first rate of movement from a first position outside the forming station to an intermediate position wherein the end contacts a part to be ejected.

Abstract: In a metal can at least one component having an edge portion forming part of a seam is made from pre-laminated plate comprising a metal substrate with a polymeric film bonded over the whole of one or both of its sides. An aerosol valve cup is made from such plate with its underside having such a polymeric layer, and is secured to the can body in a seam by conventional mechanical deformation, such as swaging, so as to compress the polymeric layer in the seam. This provides a satisfactory seal without the need for any additional sealing material within the seam.

Abstract: A triple seam for assemblying a bottom to a container body, and a process for forming the triple seam. The process comprises the step of forming an axially extending seaming structure comprising a plurality of layers belonging to adjoining edges of the body and bottom. One of the adjoining edges includes a first layer and a contiguous overfolded second layer having an axial length less than the axial length of said first layer to increase the number of layers in a first axial section of the seaming structure. The process also includes the step of lamination rolling the seaming structure to a uniform width. A hook-shaped profile is formed in said body edge as a preliminary step in this process.

Abstract: Thermoplastic tape is stretched by a rotating disk having slots extending radially outward from the center of rotation of the disk. The tape is gripped by clips which are moved outwardly in the slots by a cam slot as the disk rotates. The clips grip the tape throughout a length which forms relatively thick and wide unstretched portions of tape with relatively thin and narrow central portions of stretched tape between said clips.

Abstract: The conduit bending tool of this invention has on its body a pair of pads which are spaced apart in the direction lengthwise of the arcuate bending shoe and which define recesses that open to one side of the body wherein end portions of a straight cylindrical spirit level vial are closely receivable. Cement on a surface of each recess that embraces the vial partway around it secures the vial in place. The pads and recesses are defined by one of the two main mold elements that form the body, which have their parting place on a plane of symmetry in the body, and the vial is installed by simply inserting it into the recesses.

Abstract: To form a commutator segmental ring, an intermediate stage commutator ring (4) is formed from a flat strip (1) of commutator material which is bent into essentially cylindrical tubular shape to form a blank (2) having a gap or crack (3) adjacent the ends of the strip. The commutator ring, upon forming of the commutator, is severed into commutator segments. The gap or crack of the blank is aligned with a ridge or rib in a forming punch press to form a groove within the essentially cylindrical tubular blank (2) so that, when the intermediate stage commutator ring (4) is made, a cylindrical portion (5) already dimensioned for the intermediate segmental ring and a flange portion (6) are made, with a groove in alignment with the gap or crack obtained during cold-flowing of the metal in the press by the guidance afforded by the rib or ridge in the gap or crack of the cylindrical tubular blank.

Abstract: In the formation of a valve mounting assembly for aerosol containers and the like, an aerosol valve mounting cup including a projecting central cylindrical body with an outwardly directed annular channel about the end thereof, an annular planar gasket deformably receivable within the channel, and apparatus for positioning the gasket in the channel. The inner periphery of the gasket defines a diameter substantially less than that of the cylindrical body whereby forceable engagement of the gasket about the body and into the channel outwardly deforms the inner peripheral portion of the gasket into a sleeve-like configuration intimately engaged with the cylindrical body thereabout, the remainder of the gasket seating within and conforming to the annular channel. Engagement of the gasket into the channel utilizes a gasket receiving bushing with a longitudinally moveable inserter therein which forces the gasket into the channel as the apparatus moves over a mounting clip.

Abstract: A process for making a rigid packaging container which contains a "rolled lip" which comprises deforming a sheet of metal, plastic or paper composite material over a mold into a desired formed shape which contains a "lip", advancing a trimming means from the convex or bottom side of the shape while said shape is supported so that said shape does not deform; and trimming the shape from the convex or bottom side of the shape at a point on the lip of the shape which undercuts the periphery of the shape while, at the same time, forcing open the undercut of the lip of the shape.

Abstract: Apparatus for reforming an end wall of a container shell including a punch reciprocable along a path on a frame and a domer assembly at the end of the path. The domer assembly includes a domer pad and an annular forming element with biasing means between the pad, the annular forming element and the base. The biasing means for the annular forming element includes an annular chamber divided into spaced segments that each have a piston reciprocated therein and a pressurized fluid source connected thereto, while the domer pad is supported on a post that extends through a tubular column forming part of the base and has an enlarged pad at the opposite end which also is in communication with the pressurized fluid source to produce an end wall configuration that has a large outer annular arcuate portion merging with an annular flat support portion that has an upwardly-extending flat annular portion surrounding a central upward dome.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus for a wire drawing machine including a capstan applying a pulling action on a wire moving through a die and around which the drawn wire is wound, forming turns, includes a caisson in the shape of a circular sector and of tubular section, positioned in the vicinity of the capstan. The caisson is supplied with a cooling liquid and is arranged in such manner as, on the one hand, to direct the cooling liquid toward the wire turns wound on the capstan, and on the other hand, to collect and discharge the liquid after the cooling operation.

Abstract: Inprovement in a golf club straightening device for straightening golf club irons, the device having a base, an arrangement for clamping the head of the golf club iron, an arrangement for examining the loft of the golf club iron, and an arrangement for examining the lie of the golf club iron, the improvement comprising an arcuate loft arm mounted stationary in respect to the base and upstanding therefrom, a swingarm mechanism comprising a pivot support stationary in respect to the base and upstanding therefrom and including a bifurcated swingarm pivotally mounted on the pivot support, upper and lower clamps moveably carried on the bifurcated swingarm for clamping the head of a golf club iron so that the front face thereof is flat against the rear face of the bifurcated swingarm, the swingarm being pivotally moveable in respect to the arcuate loft arm and being capable of being made fast in respect thereto by being clamped thereagainst, the arcuate loft arm having an angular scale thereon for determining the l

Abstract: A dunnage converter mechanism for producing relatively low density pad-like cushioning dunnage product from flexible sheet-like stock material in roll form. The converter includes means for pulling the sheet-like stock material from a supply roll thereof into the mechanism while causing inward rolling of the lateral edges of the sheet-like stock material, resulting in a pad-like cushioning product emitted from the machine, with the product having lateral relatively resilient pillow-like portions and a central connecting section holding the pillow-like portions together in generally side-by-side attached relation.

Abstract: An electromagnetic forming method is disclosed which effects desired forming on a given workpiece by disposing on the surface of the workpiece a driver obtained by superposing a highly electroconductive metal foil repeatedly over itself, opposing a primary coil to the driver, feeding electric current for forming to the primary coil thereby generating induced current in the driver, and allowing the workpiece to be formed by the resultant repulsive force exerted between the driver and the primary coil.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for forming blanks by hydroplastic deformation. In a closed deformation space there is supplied a working fluid under high pressure and, simultaneously, the material of the blank to be deformed which is disposed in the deformation space is subjected to plastic deformation by the working fluid. In the zone of the closed deformation space there is applied a concentrated and controllable impulsed fluid load, this load being applied cyclically at equal time intervals and being controlled along the length of the blank being deformed.The apparatus of the invention comprises a working tool with a blind central hole and radial channels connected thereto, and a female die in which the blank to be deformed is disposed. The working tool is connected to a supply cylinder in which there is provided a pressure chamber, the pressure chamber containing a piston connected to the working tool. The supply cylinder is fastened to the movable part of a press.

Abstract: A rigid peening spindle for rotopeening the inside wall of a tube is disclosed herein. Generally, the peening spindle comprises a rotatable housing insertable within a tube, a mandrel disposed within the housing and having a plurality of peening flappers connected thereto, and a pair of bearings for rotatably mounting the mandrel within the housing in an off-center orientation relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing so that the peening flappers rotate and orbit within the tube when the mandrel and housing are simultaneously rotated. The housing includes a cage formed from an open section and a ligment, and the mandrel is rotatably mounted within the housing so that the peening flappers may engage the inside wall of the tube through the open section of the cage.

Abstract: A method of fabricating articles from precipitation hardening aluminum alloys wherein the alloy is thermomechanically treated to control the characteristics of its microstructure before forging occurs in hot dies in an isothermal condition so that deformation occurs at a minimum strain rate. The forging temperature is above the solutionizing temperature of the alloy being forged.

Abstract: A rotopeening apparatus utilizing a flexible spindle for rotopeening the inside wall of tubes of limited access is disclosed herein. The spindle is formed from a flexible, rotatable housing and includes a mandrel having eighteen peening flappers connected thereto along its axis of rotation. The mandrel is rotatably mounted within the housing in an off-center orientation relative to the longitudinal axis of the spindle in order that the peening flapper may rotate and orbit within the tube when the mandrel and the housing are rotated. The apparatus includes a frame plate for detachably mounting the flexible spindle within the open end of the tube to be rotopeened. The spindle is mounted in cantilever off the side of the frame plate to maximize its manipulability in areas of limited access. Additionally, the drive motors of the apparatus are remotely coupled to the peening spindle by means of flexible shafts in order to maximize portability.