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: Apparatus for reforming round cans into rectangular cans including an anvil having an entrance and an exit end, a gripper chain for moving the cans along the anvil; side-mounted rollers or belts for forming the round can into a rectilinear shape; and a paneling roller for creasing the can into a rectilinear shape prior to the exit end of the anvil.