Abstract: A forming device for cup-shaped hollow bodies having a machine frame, a drive device, a workpiece rotary table for accommodating hollow bodies and a tool holder for accommodating processing tools, wherein the workpiece rotary table and the tool holder face one another and can be turned about a rotational axis in relation to one another and can be linearly moved in relation to one another along the rotational axis, and wherein the drive device comprises first drive means for providing a rotary step movement and second drive means for providing a cyclical linear movement between workpiece rotary table and tool holder to enable the hollow bodies to be formed by means of the processing tools in a plurality of consecutive processing steps. The second drive means has a stroke adjustment arrangement which is designed for adjusting a working stroke of the cyclical linear movement as a function of a control signal of a control device and/or for continuously variably adjusting the working stroke.

Abstract: This invention relates to a container (10) provided with a metallic cover comprising a plastic container (14) provided with a flanged portion (15) and a metallic cover (11) provided with a peripheral edge portion (12) and having an improved reservation property obtained by improving a material of the container body (14) and the shape thereof, also relates to a method for manufacturing a container provided with a metallic cover comprising the steps of mounting a container body (214) provided with a flanged portion (215) in a recess (267a) of a retainer (267), conveying the container body (214) mounted in the recess (267a) of the retainer (267) and the metallic cover (211) to a seaming device (256), seaming the peripheral portion (212) of the metallic cover (211) to the flanged portion (215) of the container body (214) by the seaming device (256), and discharging the seamed container provided with the metallic cover from the seaming device (256), and further relates to a press-cut device which includes a vertic

Abstract: The present invention provides a can feeding apparatus for a can seamer, in which can bodies are fed to a seaming turret are slid on a plate rail and alongside opposed guides by fingers of a drive chain. The seaming turret or a turret opposed to the seaming turret, or both turrets, are provided with claws at their outer circumferential portions. The claws project radially outwardly of pitch circles of the turrets and these projecting portions have profiles of cycloids so that the turrets will not pierce the can bodies. A plate-shaped magnet and/or a brush are disposed on the guides to steady the can bodies as they are transferred to a can lifter of the seaming turret. Furthermore, the angular position of a conveyor sprocket of the can feed conveyor can be adjusted easily in a short period of time by a phase adjusting device. Still further, in a can lid feeder disposed in front of the can seamer, a can body centering turret is also provided with projecting portions having profiles of cycloids.

Abstract: A can lid feeder, for use with a can seamer, has a separator for can lids which projects into a drop hole provided in a cylindrical body at the bottom of a hopper and which separates dropped and stacked can lids one by one from the bottom of the stack. A rotary shaft of the separator extends in a gear box which is supported in the feeder in a freely swingable manner. The gear box is swingable so that the separator can move in the radial direction with respect to the cylindrical body having the drop hole. After a side surface of the swinging gear box has been brought into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical body, the gear box is fixed in position by a clamp lever.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device which seals a base or a lid onto a length of section and in particular to apparatus for sealing tubular section used as packaging and obtained by adhesion of several strips of fibrous, cellulosic, metallic, plastic and other materials.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for dividing a single stick of can ends into a pair of can end sticks. The apparatus includes a pair of driven groved roll wheels between which the can ends are separated and fed in a pair of intermeshed star wheels for receiving the can ends and separating them into two separate can end sources.

Abstract: A process and an installation for supplying fragile caps to a closure machine which operates at a high rate, wherein caps are manufactured in situ in a plurality of cells which operate in a parallel mode, with the caps then supplied to the closure machine by a single conveyor which preserves the orientation of the caps. Detectors disposed on inclined intermediate channels control the output rate of the cells and the conveyor to ensure the machine is supplied with caps at all times, even when a cell is stopped for maintenance.