Patents by Inventor Ian Kenneth Scholey
Ian Kenneth Scholey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240102732Abstract: A can curing oven including a housing assembly, a transfer assembly, and a number of heating units. The housing assembly defines a generally enclosed space. The transfer assembly is structured to support and move a number of can bodies. The transfer assembly includes an elongated transfer belt. The transfer belt is movably coupled to the housing assembly and is structured to move through the housing assembly enclosed space. The number of heating units are structured to generate an effective amount of received heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventor: Ian Kenneth Scholey
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Publication number: 20240042768Abstract: An ink replenishment system for a can decorator having a plurality of ink fountains corresponding to a plurality of ink station assemblies includes a robotic arm structured to pick up ink from a selected one of a plurality of ink container and to place the picked up ink into a selected one of the plurality of ink fountains, and a controller structured to control operations of the robotic arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Joseph John Allen Maurer, Stephen Dane Christensen
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Patent number: 11890664Abstract: A drive assembly for a necker machine includes a plurality of motors, each motor including an output shaft, a plurality of drive wheel assemblies, each drive wheel assembly operatively coupled to an associated necker machine drive shaft, and a number of timing/drive belts operatively coupled to each drive wheel assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Bradley James Miller
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Patent number: 11874058Abstract: A can curing oven including a housing assembly, a transfer assembly, and a number of heating units. The housing assembly defines a generally enclosed space. The transfer assembly is structured to support and move a number of can bodies. The transfer assembly includes an elongated transfer belt. The transfer belt is movably coupled to the housing assembly and is structured to move through the housing assembly enclosed space. The number of heating units are structured to generate an effective amount of received heat.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventor: Ian Kenneth Scholey
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Patent number: 11858026Abstract: A ram drive assembly for a can bodymaker includes a mounting assembly and a number of forming assemblies supported thereon, each including: a stationary assembly, having a die pack and a domer, and a moving assembly having a ram assembly and a cam follower assembly. The die pack defines a passage having a proximal and a distal end, with the domer disposed adjacent the distal end. The ram assembly includes a ram body having a proximal and a distal end, with the cam follower assembly coupled to the proximal end. The ram body is structured to reciprocate through the passage between a retracted and an extended position. The ram drive assembly includes: a cam having a body with a number of surfaces for engaging each cam follower assembly; and a motor having a rotating output shaft operatively coupled to the cam body for rotating the cam body.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
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Patent number: 11820147Abstract: An ink replenishment system for a can decorator having a plurality of ink fountains corresponding to a plurality of ink station assemblies includes a robotic arm structured to pick up ink from a selected one of a plurality of ink container and to place the picked up ink into a selected one of the plurality of ink fountains, and a controller structured to control operations of the robotic arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Joseph John Allen Maurer, Stephen Dane Christensen
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Patent number: 11806772Abstract: A hydrostatic/hydrodynamic fluid bearing assembly for a can bodymaker is provided. The hydrostatic/hydrodynamic fluid bearing assembly is separate from the ram body. The outboard guide bearing assembly includes a carriage assembly and a number of elongated journals. The carriage assembly includes a ram coupling, a crank coupling, and body defining a number of journal passages. The ram body is coupled to a ram coupling. The crank coupling is structured to be coupled to a crank arm. Each journal extends through a carriage assembly body journal passage. In this configuration, the ram body may form a can body in a traditional manner, but fluid bearing assembly fluid is not applied to the ram body. Instead, the fluid bearing assembly fluid is applied to the journals.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Gregory H. Butcher, Aaron E. Carstens, Kenneth E. Carper, Russell Bauer, Ian Kenneth Scholey
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Patent number: 11786952Abstract: A unitary forward mounting assembly for a bodymaker includes a unitary forward mounting body with a cradle portion, a first support arm portion and a second support arm portion. The cradle portion has a forward side, a rear side, a right side, and a left side. The first support arm portion is disposed at the cradle portion right side. The second support arm portion is disposed at the cradle portion left side.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Karl S. Fleischer, Alan W. Cleveland
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Patent number: 11786956Abstract: A system for performing necking operations on a can body includes a necker machine and a positioning system. The necker machine includes a frame; a processing arrangement having a plurality of components movable relative to the frame for performing the necking operations on the can body, and a drive motor having a shaft operatively coupled to the processing arrangement for moving the processing arrangement relative to the frame. The positioning system includes: an encoder associated with the drive motor for monitoring a rotational displacement of the shaft and a controller in communication with the encoder and the drive motor. The controller is structured and programmed to: receive an input from a user, the input being indicative of a desired movement of the processing arrangement relative to the frame, and to operate the drive motor using feedback from the encoder such that the desired movement of the processing arrangement is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Stephen Dane Christensen, Jonathan Scott Saunders, Jr., Andrew Christopher Hyde
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Patent number: 11779993Abstract: A rotary manifold includes a manifold assembly outer body assembly with a generally toroid outer body, a number of manifold assembly outer body assembly bearing assemblies, a number of seals, and a number of fluid couplings. The manifold assembly outer body assembly body defines a number of radial passages. A generally toroid manifold assembly inner body defines a number of right angle passages. The manifold assembly inner body is rotatably disposed within the manifold assembly outer body assembly body. Each manifold assembly inner body passage inlet is discontinuously in fluid communication with the manifold assembly outer body assembly body passage outlets. Each manifold assembly inner body passage outlet is discontinuously in fluid communication with the process shaft assembly body passages inlets.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Russell Bauer, Seth Daniel Holdmeyer
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Patent number: 11766711Abstract: A redraw assembly for a can bodymaker includes a frame and a hold down piston moveably coupled to the frame so as to be slidable with respect thereto. The hold down piston is structured to have a blank holder coupled thereto for engaging and securing a cup adjacent an opening of a die pack. The redraw assembly further includes a cam disk engaged with the hold down piston and moveably coupled to the frame so as to be readily rotatable about a rotation axis and a motor having an output shaft coupled to the cam disk. The motor is structured to selectively rotate the cam disk about the rotation axis. The hold down piston is movable among a first positioning and a second positioning dependent on the positioning of the cam disk.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
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Publication number: 20230294159Abstract: A sensing arrangement for use in a can bodymaker includes a plurality of sensors positioned around, and spaced a radial distance from, a sensing axis. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors is structured to determine a number of characteristics of a can body positioned on a punch of the can bodymaker as the punch passes along the sensing axis during normal operation of the bodymaker producing can bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Jonathan Scott Saunders, JR., Ian Kenneth Scholey
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Patent number: 11731188Abstract: A quick-change die assembly for a necker machine includes an outer die mounting, an outer die, an outer die quick-release coupling, an inner die mounting, an inner die assembly, and an inner die quick-release coupling. The outer die is coupled to the outer die mounting by the outer die quick-release coupling. The inner die assembly is coupled to the inner die mounting by the inner die quick-release coupling.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Russell Bauer, Daniel A. Jansen
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Publication number: 20230249243Abstract: A cam follower assembly for a can bodymaker includes a slider structured to be coupled to the proximal end of a ram body of the can bodymaker; and a plurality of cam follower members rotatably coupled to the slider. The cam follower members are structured to be operatively coupled to a cam of a ram drive assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan M. Praturlon
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Patent number: 11666961Abstract: A cam follower assembly for a can bodymaker includes a slider structured to be coupled to the proximal end of a ram body of the can bodymaker; and a plurality of cam follower members rotatably coupled to the slider. The cam follower members are structured to be operatively coupled to a cam of a ram drive assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
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Publication number: 20230166515Abstract: An ink replenishment system for a can decorator having a plurality of ink fountains corresponding to a plurality of ink station assemblies includes a robotic arm structured to pick up ink from a selected one of a plurality of ink container and to place the picked up ink into a selected one of the plurality of ink fountains, and a controller structured to control operations of the robotic arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Joseph John Allen Maurer, Stephen Dane Christensen
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Publication number: 20230150003Abstract: A connection rod coupling assembly includes a settable shape mounting second component having a lateral, primary axis and a bearing assembly including a bearing assembly body. The bearing assembly body includes a substantially cylindrical outer surface and a center axis. The bearing assembly body is coupled to the settable shape mounting second component in a non-aligned configuration. That is, the bearing assembly body center axis is offset from the settable shape mounting second component primary axis. Thus, the position of the bearing assembly body center axis is adjustable by repositioning the settable shape mounting second component relative to a settable shape mounting first component on a swing lever. The adjustment of the bearing assembly body, in turn, adjusts the range of the ram assembly and the ram assembly body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Karl S. Fleischer, Alan W. Cleveland
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Publication number: 20230118203Abstract: A rotary manifold includes a manifold assembly outer body assembly with a generally toroid outer body, a number of manifold assembly outer body assembly bearing assemblies, a number of seals, and a number of fluid couplings. The manifold assembly outer body assembly body defines a number of radial passages. A generally toroid manifold assembly inner body defines a number of right angle passages. The manifold assembly inner body is rotatably disposed within the manifold assembly outer body assembly body. Each manifold assembly inner body passage inlet is discontinuously in fluid communication with the manifold assembly outer body assembly body passage outlets. Each manifold assembly inner body passage outlet is discontinuously in fluid communication with the process shaft assembly body passages inlets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Russell Bauer, Seth Daniel Holdmeyer
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Patent number: 11613429Abstract: A quick-change vacuum starwheel assembly including at least one of a quick-change height adjustment assembly or a quick-change vacuum starwheel mounting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Michael Bryan Maxwell, Daniel A. Jansen
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Publication number: 20230081092Abstract: A forming assembly for use in a can bodymaker includes a stationary assembly and a moving assembly movably coupled to the stationary assembly. The stationary assembly and the moving assembly are a unified assembly that is structured to be selectively coupled to a mounting assembly body of the can bodymaker. The moving assembly is structured to be selectively coupled to a ram drive assembly of the can bodymaker and moved with respect to the stationary assembly thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon