EP0312918B1 - Method and apparatus for making a can body of non-circular section - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for making a can body of non-circular section Download PDF

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EP0312918B1
EP0312918B1 EP88117073A EP88117073A EP0312918B1 EP 0312918 B1 EP0312918 B1 EP 0312918B1 EP 88117073 A EP88117073 A EP 88117073A EP 88117073 A EP88117073 A EP 88117073A EP 0312918 B1 EP0312918 B1 EP 0312918B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21DWORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • B21D51/26Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects cans or tins; Closing same in a permanent manner
    • B21D51/2646Of particular non cylindrical shape, e.g. conical, rectangular, polygonal, bulged
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21DWORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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  • the invention relates to a method for producing can bodies having a non-circular cross-section from flat blanks, with an outline shape corresponding to the development of the can body to be produced with a non-round cross-section, which are deformed in a deformation station by means of bending tools to form the can body shape with side walls, in order to then overlap To connect side wall edges in a longitudinal seam.
  • the invention further relates to a device for performing the method.
  • Resistance roller seam welding machines are known for the production of can bodies from flat blanks, which, in addition to the device for welding, have a rounding apparatus for deforming the blanks and enable can bodies to be produced in very high numbers per minute, but these known machines are only for the production of cylindrical can bodies suitable.
  • Cans with a non-circular cross-section, especially those with a rectangular cross-section, which are also available on the market on a large scale, for the reception of foodstuffs have hitherto mainly been produced using a soldering process, the can bodies formed from flat blanks being transported through a soldering bath will.
  • soldering material consists largely of lead and should therefore not come into contact with food, which is why one is more aware of today an environment less polluted by pollutants is very keen to replace the soldering process for the can production with another production method.
  • cans with a rectangular cross-section that have been manufactured using the soldering process have been known for a long time. They taper upwards and, because of this shape, let consumers recognize that a certain content, such as beef, is contained in these cans in a special preparation.
  • such cans are also provided with a tear strip delimited by lines scratched all around, which has a tear-open tongue at one end, so that the can can be opened easily without special tools.
  • the tear tab protrudes from an edge of the flat blank from which the can is made, and because of this tear tab the manufacture of such a can is made even more difficult if it is not to be produced using the known soldering process.
  • cylindrical cans were first produced using the known resistance seam welding method and then subsequently shaped into an out-of-round cross-section. If, however, you want to produce a can tapering towards one end in addition to the rectangular shape in this way, you cannot do this without very heavy use of the sheet by stretching the sheet at the end with the larger cross section. The material can tear, and when such a can body is expanded, considerable stresses arise in it, which can lead to that the scratched areas burst. Such a manufacturing process is not very advantageous and, apart from that, it requires a very complex use of machinery with correspondingly very high investments for it.
  • the blanks are exactly rectangular, while for a conical can body, blanks in the form of the development of a truncated cone shell are required, in which two opposite edges are curved.
  • the cut is similar in shape to the above-mentioned development of a truncated cone jacket, but with straight sections on the two edges.
  • the object underlying the present invention was therefore to produce can bodies from flat blanks which do not have a round cross section and preferably have a rectangular cross section with rounded corners, all of this at high speed for machine production. Furthermore, the task also consisted in producing can bodies of this type and with a cross section, the size of which continuously changes over the length of the can body, i.e. Manufacture can body with a taper, which makes emptying the can particularly easy, also with high production speed.
  • the measures according to claim 1 serve to solve the basic task. Special features of the production process result from the dependent claims.
  • the device for carrying out the manufacturing process has the features according to claim 4 and has features according to the following dependent claims for special features of the can bodies to be manufactured.
  • the advantages of the new method and the device consist in the fact that can bodies with a large number of pieces per unit of time and specially shaped can bodies can be produced starting from flat blanks from a magazine.
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 in various views for the production of can bodies from flat blanks using electrical resistance welding with the aid of welding electrode rolls, which device is also referred to as a resistance roll seam welding machine, points to the machine frame 1 in FIG on the left side a magazine 2 for receiving a stack of flat blanks 3.
  • the blanks 3, one of which is shown on a larger scale in FIG. 5, are stacked out of the magazine 2 and reach the intermediate table 4 of the deformation station 5 which operates in the manner of a press 3, a lower press table 7 guided on guide columns 6 and movable up and down. This is opposed by an upper press table 8.
  • a blank 3 stacked from the magazine 2 is first provided in the press or shaping station 5 with the aid of a pressing or embossing tool, not shown, with flat beads 9 shown in FIG. 5 in two areas of the blank, which later have the larger side walls of the rectangular cross section Form can body. These flat beads or indentations 9 serve to stiffen the side walls of the can body. The principle of producing such beads is known and is therefore not shown.
  • the flat blank 3 shown in FIG. 5 on a larger scale has at the two opposite ends two edges 10 and 11 which are to be welded together. Furthermore, the blank has a tear strip 13, delimited by pre-scored lines 12, which on one side protrudes beyond the edge 10 Tear tab 14 ends, and which extends over the entire length of the blank.
  • FIG. 4 A bending tool 20 used for this is shown in FIG. 4, from which figure the arrangement within the deformation station 5 can be seen.
  • the principle of the bending process is shown in Fig. 6 a, b and c.
  • the areas of the blank adjoining the two blank edges 10 and 11 to be welded are each bent to the extent of half a side wall of the can body by 90 ° from the flat blank.
  • the weld seam then comes to lie later in the middle of this side wall of the can body which is rectangular in cross section. 6, these bending processes have already been completed, but they take place according to the same principle as shown in FIG. 6.
  • a separate bending tool 20 is provided for each bending process and the blank is transported from one bending tool to the next in cycles.
  • three bends carried out according to this principle have already been completed, that is to say the cutting regions adjoining the two edges 10 and 11 to be welded are bent up and one of the two wider side surfaces of the can body to be produced is also bent up.
  • Each bending tool 20 includes a shaped piece 21 held stationary within the can body to be produced as a counter-tool, which shaped piece has a curved outer surface 22 whose radius of curvature is smaller than the radius of curvature of the rounded corner of the can body to be produced, depending on the elasticity and thickness of the sheet.
  • a flat shaped piece section 21a adjoins the curved surface 22.
  • the fitting 21 is held stationary above the blank 3.
  • the bending tool 20 also includes a pressing tool 23, 24 that is used for pressing from the outside.
  • This has a bearing body 23 for a roller 24 mounted in this bearing body, further a guide 25 for the bearing body, on which it is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner, and a compression spring 26, by means of which the roller 24 is pressed against the blank, if that by one to the parallel axis 27 formed by the curved surface 22, the pivotable guide 25 is moved by means of a pivotably mounted lifting rod 28 in FIG. 6a and along the curved surface 22 of the shaped piece 21 in order to bend the blank 3. The state then reached is shown in Fig. 6b.
  • the bend must be made through an arc of more than 90 ° in order to take into account the material elasticity and the large bending radius, so that a permanent 90 ° bend is subsequently obtained.
  • This bend beyond 90 ° can be seen in FIG. 6b, from which figure it can also be seen that the wide side surface of the can body which has already been bent and opposed and which is still vertically upward at the start of the fourth bend process, which is shown in broken lines in Fig. 6b is shown, this bending process hindered beyond 90 ° and must therefore be temporarily pushed away.
  • a two-armed lever 30 is additionally present in the bending tool 20 shown in FIG.
  • the blank 3 is held on the intermediate table 4 during the production of the bend by a holding device 34 with the cooperation of a spring 35.
  • a bar 40 Arranged underneath the intermediate table 4 as a transport device is a bar 40 which is oscillating in the feed direction and has pawls 41 which are pivotably hinged to it at intervals.
  • the principle of jack transport is well known.
  • the pawls 41 pivot completely into the bar 40 when the bar retracts below a can body and are moved upwards under the action of a spring 42 in order to engage at the rear edge of a can body formed by a blank 3.
  • a part of this transport bar 40 with the pawl 41 and the spring 42 is shown in FIG. 7 and can be seen more clearly here.
  • This transport bar 40 shown broken off in FIG.
  • the bending tools 20 are arranged one behind the other in the feed direction of this transport bar, the blank 3 is intermittent by means of the feed bar 40 and the pawl 41 moved from one to the next bending station 20 and thereby a bend is made by each of the bending tools 20, at the same time with successive blanks 3, by the lifting rods 28 through the movable table 7 of the press on all bending tools 20 be moved upwards.
  • the deformation station 5 is followed by a conveyor section 45 for the can bodies to be welded, formed from the blanks 3, which conveyor section extends to just before the welding station 46 located at the end, in which the two welding electrode rollers 47 extend and 48 for the production of the weld seam.
  • a conveyor section 45 for the can bodies to be welded, formed from the blanks 3, which conveyor section extends to just before the welding station 46 located at the end, in which the two welding electrode rollers 47 extend and 48 for the production of the weld seam.
  • the oscillatingly moving transport device 40, 41 which has the bar 40 with the pawls 41, which also includes a crank drive 50, which can be seen in FIG. 1, for the oscillating movement of the bar 40.
  • the crank 51 moves a carriage 53 connected to the latter via a connecting piece 52, which is guided on two guide columns 54 arranged next to one another.
  • the blank 3 on the edge 10 to be welded has a projecting tear-open tongue 14 at the end of the tear-off strip 13 and the can body tapers towards its one end.
  • the can body 3 in the last transport position in front of the welding electrode rollers 47 and 48 in the last transport position is transported further by independently driven further transport means in the form of a pair of pliers 70, 71 consisting of two parallel and simultaneously operated pliers 70 and 71 which detects the can body on both sides of the edges 10 and 11 to be welded at the rear edge at the top and leads further in the feed direction between the welding electrode rollers 47 and 48, as can be seen from FIG. 9, in which the two adjacent pliers 70 and 71 can be seen.
  • the two pliers 70 and 71 are operated by compressed air for opening and closing, for which purpose the compressed air is fed through a line 72 into a device 73 for generating the actuating stroke reached.
  • the two tongs 70 and 71 are fastened to a tongs carriage 74 which is moved forward in the direction of advance by the action of a spring 75 and which is guided accordingly for a to-and-fro movement, which is not shown further.
  • the return movement of the tong carriage 74 into the position shown in FIG. 7 is carried out by a separate, further carriage 76, which is connected to a separate drive via a crank mechanism 77.
  • the first means of transport consisting of the bar 40 with the pawls 41 and the second means of transport consisting of the double pliers 70, 71 are thus driven independently of one another and are precisely coordinated with one another in their cyclical operation.
  • the Z-shaped guide rail used in known resistance seam welding machines cannot be used if a protruding tear-open tongue 14 protrudes from the one blank edge 10.
  • the guide rail 62 used in the present case and shown on a larger scale in FIG. 10 has a groove 64 for receiving the cutting edge 10 only in a short guide rail section 63 at one end of the guide rail, the tear-open tongue 14 protruding from this edge in front of this guide rail section 63 comes to rest.
  • a stop body 65 is provided in the area of the other end of the guide rail 62, which is arranged at the end of a pivotably mounted two-armed lever 66. At the other end of this lever 66 there is a roller 67 which acts against the control curve 68 of a bar 69 rests.
  • This bar 69 is fastened to the pliers carriage 74 and moves with it forward in the feed direction, so that after a certain distance the pivotable lever 66 is pivoted so that the stop body 65 is removed from the cutting edge 10 so that the tear-open tongue 14 takes this place can happen.
  • the stop body 65 must also be pivoted away so that the double tongs 70, 71, which hold the can body 3 during this feed movement for inserting the can body between the welding electrode rollers, can move past the stop body 65.
  • the guide rail 62 has a continuous groove 62a.
  • a calibration device in the form of four rollers 80 to 83 is arranged, which bear against the four rounded corners of the can body 3, which is rectangular in cross section. If, as in the present case, the can body has a cross-section that constantly changes in size over the length of the can, ie tapers towards one end, the can body with the smaller cross-section is transported lying on the front, which is why the calibration rollers 80-83 must be movably arranged. so that they can dodge sideways because the cross section of the can body is larger at the rear end.
  • the two rollers 80 and 81 are therefore arranged at the end of pivotably mounted levers 84 and 85, which are pivotable in the horizontal plane.
  • the two rollers 82 and 83 are each acted upon by a compression spring 86 which acts against the roller and is supported against a holding device 87.
  • the rollers 80-83 have a concave outer profile, the radius of curvature of which corresponds to the radius of curvature of the rounded corners of the can body 3.
  • can bodies with a rectangular cross section and rounded corners can be produced, in which at the same time the size of the cross section changes continuously over the length of the can body, i.e. there is a taper.
  • the pivotable stop 65 on the guide rail 62 can be dispensed with, for example, and another guide rail can be used, which makes it possible to guide and transport the can body in such a way that the tear-open tongue 14 is in the position shown in FIG Feed direction is the front area of the can body, so that a sufficiently long groove can be provided for the edge behind this tear-open tongue.
  • the longitudinal seam could also be produced by laser welding. Furthermore, the longitudinal seam could also be produced by an adhesive process.

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To make can bodies with a non-circular cross-section, preferably with a rectangular cross-section and rounded corners, flat blanks (3) are first of all deformed in a deformation station (5) by means of a plurality of bending tools (20) of the same type to produce in each case a bend, another bend in each case being simultaneously produced on the various blanks (3), which are transported onwards in steps. The bending tool (20) has a shaped part (21) held fixed on the inside and having a curved outer face (22) and furthermore has a roller (24), which is mounted in a mounting body (23) and is under the influence of a spring (26) pressing against the mounting body (23) in order, during the movement brought about by a lifting rod (28) articulated on the mounting body (23), to bend the blank (3) situated between the shaped part (21) and the pressure roller (24) upwards. This is accomplished simultaneously at all the bending tools (20), each provided for one bend, by a moveable part (7) of the deformation device (5) operating as a press. The blank (3) is moved onwards in steps from one bending device (20) to the next, with the result that, after a plurality of working steps, a can body with a rectangular cross-section and rounded corners has been produced, the edges of which are connected in a subsequent welding station by electric resistance welding. <IMAGE>

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von einen unrunden Querschnitt aufweisenden Dosenkörpern aus flachen Zuschnitten, mit einer der Abwicklung mit unrundem Querschnitt herzustellenden Dosenkörper entsprechenden Umrissform, welche in einer Verformungsstation mittels Biegewerkzeugen zur Bildung der Dosenkörper-Raumform mit Seitenwänden verformt werden, um anschliessend sich überlappende Seitenwandränder in einer Längsnaht zu verbinden. Die Erfindung betrifft ferner eine Einrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens.The invention relates to a method for producing can bodies having a non-circular cross-section from flat blanks, with an outline shape corresponding to the development of the can body to be produced with a non-round cross-section, which are deformed in a deformation station by means of bending tools to form the can body shape with side walls, in order to then overlap To connect side wall edges in a longitudinal seam. The invention further relates to a device for performing the method.

Für die Herstellung von Dosenkörpern aus flachen Zuschnitten sind Widerstandsrollennaht-Schweissmaschinen bekannt, die ausser der Einrichtung zum Schweissen einen Rundungsapparat zum Verformen der Zuschnitte besitzen und Dosenkörper in sehr hoher Stückzahl pro Minute herzustellen ermöglichen, jedoch sind diese bekannten Maschinen nur für die Herstellung von zylindrischen Dosenkörpern geeignet. Zur Aufnahme von Nahrungsmitteln bestimmte Dosen mit einem unrunden Querschnitt, insbesondere solche mit einem rechteckförmigen Querschnitt, die sich auch in grossem Umfang auf dem Markt befinden, hat man bisher vorwiegend mit Hilfe eines Lötverfahrens hergestellt, wobei die aus flachen Zuschnitten geformten Dosenkörper durch ein Lötbad transportiert werden. Das Lötmaterial besteht jedoch zum grössten Teil aus Blei und sollte deshalb mit Nahrungsmitteln nicht in Kontakt kommen, weshalb man bei dem heute geschärften Bewusstsein für eine durch Schadstoffe weniger belastete Umwelt sehr bestrebt ist, das Lötverfahren für die Dosenherstellung durch eine andere Herstellungsmethode zu ersetzen. Seit langem bekannt sind beispielsweise mit dem Lötverfahren hergestellte Dosen mit einem rechteckförmigen Querschnitt, die sich nach oben verjüngen und die aufgrund dieser Form die Verbraucher erkennen lassen, dass ein bestimmter Inhalt wie beispielsweise Rindfleisch in besonderer Zubereitung in diesen Dosen enthalten ist. Diese Dosenform mit der Funktion wie ein Markenzeichen will man natürlich beibehalten, aber auf das Lötverfahren verzichten können, was bisher nicht möglich war. In vielen Fällen sind derartige Dosen auch mit einem durch ringsum vorgeritzte Linien begrenzten Aufreissstreifen versehen, der an einem Ende eine Aufreisszunge besitzt, so dass die Dose ohne spezielles Werkzeug leicht geöffnet werden kann. Die Aufreisszunge steht an einem Rand des flachen Zuschnittes vor, aus welchem die Dose hergestellt wird, und wegen dieser Aufreisszunge ist die Herstellung einer solchen Dose noch zusätzlich erschwert, wenn sie nicht mit Hilfe des bekannten Lötverfahrens hergestellt werden soll.Resistance roller seam welding machines are known for the production of can bodies from flat blanks, which, in addition to the device for welding, have a rounding apparatus for deforming the blanks and enable can bodies to be produced in very high numbers per minute, but these known machines are only for the production of cylindrical can bodies suitable. Cans with a non-circular cross-section, especially those with a rectangular cross-section, which are also available on the market on a large scale, for the reception of foodstuffs have hitherto mainly been produced using a soldering process, the can bodies formed from flat blanks being transported through a soldering bath will. However, the soldering material consists largely of lead and should therefore not come into contact with food, which is why one is more aware of today an environment less polluted by pollutants is very keen to replace the soldering process for the can production with another production method. For example, cans with a rectangular cross-section that have been manufactured using the soldering process have been known for a long time. They taper upwards and, because of this shape, let consumers recognize that a certain content, such as beef, is contained in these cans in a special preparation. Of course you want to keep this box shape with the function of a trademark, but you can do without the soldering process, which was not possible until now. In many cases, such cans are also provided with a tear strip delimited by lines scratched all around, which has a tear-open tongue at one end, so that the can can be opened easily without special tools. The tear tab protrudes from an edge of the flat blank from which the can is made, and because of this tear tab the manufacture of such a can is made even more difficult if it is not to be produced using the known soldering process.

Für die Herstellung von im Querschnitt rechteckförmigen Dosen hat man daher bereits als Kompromiss zunächst zylindrische Dosen mit dem bekannten Widerstandsnahtschweissverfahren hergestellt und diese dann nachträglich zu einem unrunden Querschnitt verformt. Wenn man dann aber auch noch zusätzlich zu der rechteckförmigen Form eine zu einem Ende hin sich verjüngende Dose auf diese Weise herstellen will, kann man dies nicht ohne sehr starke Beanspruchung des Blechs unter Dehnung des Blechs an dem den grösseren Querschnitt aufweisenden Ende ausführen. Das Material kann dabei reissen, und es entstehen beim Aufweiten eines solchen Dosenkörpers erhebliche Spannungen in diesem, die dazu führen können, dass die vorgeritzten Stellen platzen. Ein solches Herstellungsverfahren ist wenig vorteilhaft und abgesehen davon, verlangt es einen sehr aufwendigen Maschineneinsatz mit dementsprechend sehr hohen Investitionen dafür.For the production of cans with a rectangular cross-section, therefore, as a compromise, cylindrical cans were first produced using the known resistance seam welding method and then subsequently shaped into an out-of-round cross-section. If, however, you want to produce a can tapering towards one end in addition to the rectangular shape in this way, you cannot do this without very heavy use of the sheet by stretching the sheet at the end with the larger cross section. The material can tear, and when such a can body is expanded, considerable stresses arise in it, which can lead to that the scratched areas burst. Such a manufacturing process is not very advantageous and, apart from that, it requires a very complex use of machinery with correspondingly very high investments for it.

Für die Herstellung von zylindrischen Dosenkörpern sind die Zuschnitte genau rechteckförmig, während man für einen konischen Dosenkörper Zuschnitte in der Form der Abwicklung eines Kegellstumpfmantels benötigt, bei dem zwei gegenüberliegende Kanten gekrümmt verlaufen. Für einen Dosenkörper mit rechteckförmigem Querschnitt und abgerundeten Ecken, bei dem ausserdem noch die Grösse des Querschnitts über die Dosenkörperlänge sich stetig ändert, d.h. eine Konizität vorhanden ist, ist der Zuschnitt in der Form ähnlich der vorerwähnten Abwicklung eines Kegelstumpfmantels, jedoch mit geradlinigen Teilabschnitten an den beiden Randkanten. Ein solcher Zuschnitt ergibt nach der Verformung zu einem Dosenkörper einen solchen ohne innere Spannungen, und man kann auch aus dem Unterschied der Zuschnittform ohne weiteres folgern, dass ein zunächst zylindrisch hergestellter Dosenkörper nur mit grossem Kraftaufwand in eine rechteckförmige und zusätzlich noch konische Form gezwungen werden kann.For the production of cylindrical can bodies, the blanks are exactly rectangular, while for a conical can body, blanks in the form of the development of a truncated cone shell are required, in which two opposite edges are curved. For a can body with a rectangular cross-section and rounded corners, in which the size of the cross-section changes continuously over the length of the can, i.e. there is a taper, the cut is similar in shape to the above-mentioned development of a truncated cone jacket, but with straight sections on the two edges. After being deformed into a can body, such a cut results in one without internal stresses, and it can also be easily deduced from the difference in the cut shape that an initially cylindrical can body can only be forced into a rectangular and additionally conical shape with great effort .

Aus CH-A-377.766 ist ein Verfahren bekannt, welches erlaubt, Dosenkörper mit unrundem Querschnitt aus flachen Zuschnitten gemäss der eingangs definierten Art herzustellen. Das bekannte Verfahren eignet sich allerdings nicht dazu, die erforderlichen Biegungen der Zuschnitte mit der für die Massenherstellung erforderlichen Geschwindigkeit durchzuführen.From CH-A-377.766 a method is known which allows can bodies with a non-circular cross section to be produced from flat blanks in accordance with the type defined at the outset. However, the known method is not suitable for performing the required bending of the blanks at the speed required for mass production.

Die der vorliegenden Erfindung zugrunde liegende Aufgabe bestand daher darin, Dosenkörper aus flachen Zuschnitten herzustellen, die keinen runden Querschnitt aufweisen und vorzugsweise einen rechteckförmigen Querschnitt mit abgerundeten Ecken aufweisen, all dies mit hoher Geschwindigkeit für maschinelle Produktion. Ferner bestand die Aufgabe auch noch darin, Dosenkörper dieser Art und mit einem Querschnitt herzustellen, dessen Grösse über die Dosenkörperlänge sich stetig ändert, d.h. Dosenkörper mit einer Konizität herzustellen, die das Entleeren der Dose besonders erleichtert, ebenfalls mit grosser Produktions geschwindigkeit.The object underlying the present invention was therefore to produce can bodies from flat blanks which do not have a round cross section and preferably have a rectangular cross section with rounded corners, all of this at high speed for machine production. Furthermore, the task also consisted in producing can bodies of this type and with a cross section, the size of which continuously changes over the length of the can body, i.e. Manufacture can body with a taper, which makes emptying the can particularly easy, also with high production speed.

Zur Lösung der Grundaufgabe dienen die Massnahmen gemäss Anspruch 1. Besonderheiten des Herstellungsverfahrens ergeben sich aus den abhängigen Ansprüchen. Die Einrichtung zur Durchführung des Herstellungsverfahrens weist die Merkmale gemäss Anspruch 4 auf und besitzt für Besonderheiten an den herzustellenden Dosenkörpern Merkmale gemäss den nachfolgenden abhängigen Ansprüchen.The measures according to claim 1 serve to solve the basic task. Special features of the production process result from the dependent claims. The device for carrying out the manufacturing process has the features according to claim 4 and has features according to the following dependent claims for special features of the can bodies to be manufactured.

Die Vorteile des neuen Verfahrens und der Einrichtung bestehen darin, dass maschinell mit grosser Stückzahl pro Zeiteinheit besonders geformte Dosenkörper und solche mit Aufreissstreifen, ausgehend von flachen Zuschnitten aus einem Magazin, hergestellt werden können.The advantages of the new method and the device consist in the fact that can bodies with a large number of pieces per unit of time and specially shaped can bodies can be produced starting from flat blanks from a magazine.

Nachfolgend wird die Erfindung anhand eines Ausführungsbeispiels einer Einrichtung zur Herstellung von Dosenkörpern unter Bezugnahme auf die Zeichnungen näher erläutert. Es zeigen:

  • Fig. 1 die Vorderansicht der Einrichtung zum Verformen der Zuschnitte und zum Herstellen der Dosenkörper durch Schweissen;
  • Fig. 2 eine Ansicht auf die Einrichtung gemäss Fig. 1 von der Seite gemäss Pfeil A in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 die wesentlichen Teile der Einrichtung in der Seitenansicht gemäss Pfeilrichtung B in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 4 ausschnittsweise und in grösserem Massstab einen Teil der in einer Presse integrierten Verformungsstation zum Verformen der Zuschnitte;
  • Fig. 5 in grösserem Massstab den Zuschnitt zur Herstellung von Dosenkörpern mit rechteckförmigem Querschnitt;
  • Fig. 6 a,b und c das Prinzip der schrittweisen Verformung der Zuschnitte mit schematischer Darstellung der Einrichtung in Fig. 6a und b von der Seite und in Fig. 6 c von oben;
  • Fig. 7 einen Ausschnitt aus der Einrichtung gemäss Fig. 1 in grösserem Massstab, mit den Elementen zum Transportieren und Schweissen der Dosenkörper in Vorderansicht;
  • Fig. 8 die wesentlichen Teile der in Fig. 7 dargestellten Elemente der Einrichtung unterhalb der Linie 7-7 in Ansicht von oben;
  • Fig. 9 eine Seitenansicht in Pfeilrichtung C in Fig. 7 auf die wesentlichen Elemente unterhalb der Linie 7-7 in Fig. 7.
  • Fig. 10 die Führungsschiene mit einem Anschlagkörper, schematisch im grösseren Massstab dargestellt.
The invention is explained in more detail below using an exemplary embodiment of a device for producing can bodies with reference to the drawings. Show it:
  • Figure 1 is a front view of the device for deforming the blanks and for producing the can body by welding.
  • FIG. 2 shows a view of the device according to FIG. 1 from the side according to arrow A in FIG. 1;
  • 3 shows the essential parts of the device in a side view according to arrow direction B in FIG. 1;
  • 4 shows a section and on a larger scale of part of the deformation station integrated in a press for deforming the blanks;
  • 5 shows the blank for the production of can bodies with a rectangular cross section on a larger scale;
  • 6 a, b and c the principle of the gradual deformation of the blanks with a schematic representation of the device in FIGS. 6 a and b from the side and in FIG. 6 c from above;
  • 7 shows a detail of the device according to FIG. 1 on a larger scale, with the elements for transporting and welding the can bodies in a front view;
  • Figure 8 shows the essential parts of the elements of the device shown in Figure 7 below the line 7-7 in a view from above.
  • 9 is a side view in the direction of arrow C in Fig. 7 on the essential elements below the line 7-7 in Fig. 7th
  • Fig. 10 shows the guide rail with a stop body, shown schematically on a larger scale.

Die in Fig. 1 bis 3 in verschiedenen Ansichten dargestellte Einrichtung zur Herstellung von Dosenkörpern aus flachen Zuschnitten unter Anwendung der elektrischen Widerstandsschweissung mit Hilfe von Schweisselektrodenrollen, welche Einrichtung auch als Widerstandsrollennaht-Schweissmaschine bezeichnet wird, weist an dem Maschinengestell 1 in Fig. 1 auf der linken Seite ein Magazin 2 zur Aufnahme eines Stapels von flachen Zuschnitten 3 auf. Aus dem Magazin 2 werden die Zuschnitte 3, von denen einer in Fig. 5 in grösserem Massstab dargestellt ist, abgestapelt und gelangen auf den Zwischentisch 4 der in der Art einer Presse arbeitenden Verformungsstation 5. Diese ist auch nach dem Prinzip einer Presse ausgebildet und weist gemäss Fig. 3 einen an Führungssäulen 6 geführten und auf- und abbewegbaren unteren Pressentisch 7 auf. Diesem steht ein oberer Pressentisch 8 gegenüber. Ein aus dem Magazin 2 abgestapelter Zuschnitt 3 wird zunächst in der Presse oder Verformungsstation 5 mit Hilfe eines nicht dargestellten Drück- oder Prägewerkzeugs mit in Fig. 5 dargestellten flachen Sicken 9 in zwei Bereichen des Zuschnitts versehen, die später die grösseren Seitenwände des im Querschnitt rechteckförmigen Dosenkörpers bilden. Diese flachen Sicken oder Eindrückungen 9 dienen zur Versteifung der Seitenwände des Dosenkörpers. Das Prinzip der Herstellung derartiger Sicken ist bekannt und darum nicht dargestellt.The device shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 in various views for the production of can bodies from flat blanks using electrical resistance welding with the aid of welding electrode rolls, which device is also referred to as a resistance roll seam welding machine, points to the machine frame 1 in FIG on the left side a magazine 2 for receiving a stack of flat blanks 3. The blanks 3, one of which is shown on a larger scale in FIG. 5, are stacked out of the magazine 2 and reach the intermediate table 4 of the deformation station 5 which operates in the manner of a press 3, a lower press table 7 guided on guide columns 6 and movable up and down. This is opposed by an upper press table 8. A blank 3 stacked from the magazine 2 is first provided in the press or shaping station 5 with the aid of a pressing or embossing tool, not shown, with flat beads 9 shown in FIG. 5 in two areas of the blank, which later have the larger side walls of the rectangular cross section Form can body. These flat beads or indentations 9 serve to stiffen the side walls of the can body. The principle of producing such beads is known and is therefore not shown.

Der in Fig. 5 in grösserem Massstab dargestellte flache Zuschnitt 3 besitzt an den beiden gegenüberliegenden Enden zwei Ränder 10 und 11, die miteinander zu verschweissen sind. Ferner weist der Zuschnitt einen durch vorgeritzte Linien 12 begrenzten Aufreissstreifen 13 auf, der an einer Seite in einer über den Rand 10 vorstehenden Aufreisszunge 14 endet, und der sich über die ganze Länge des Zuschnitts erstreckt.The flat blank 3 shown in FIG. 5 on a larger scale has at the two opposite ends two edges 10 and 11 which are to be welded together. Furthermore, the blank has a tear strip 13, delimited by pre-scored lines 12, which on one side protrudes beyond the edge 10 Tear tab 14 ends, and which extends over the entire length of the blank.

Anschliessend an die Herstellung der Sicken 9 in dem Zuschnitt 3 werden in der Verformungsstation die vier gerundeten Ecken des im Querschnitt rechteckförmigen Dosenkörpers hergestellt. Ein dafür verwendetes Biegewerkzeug 20 ist in Fig. 4 dargestellt, aus welcher Figur die Anordnung innerhalb der Verformungsstation 5 erkennbar ist. Das Prinzip des Biegevorgangs geht aus Fig. 6 a, b und c hervor. Zunächst werden die an die beiden zu verschweissenden Zuschnittränder 10 und 11 anschliessenden Bereiche des Zuschnitts im Ausmass jeweils einer halben Seitenwand des Dosenkörpers vom flachen Zuschnitt um 90° hoch gebogen. Die Schweissnaht kommt dann später in der Mitte dieser Seitenwand des im Querschnitt rechteckförmigen Dosenkörpers zu liegen. Bei der Darstellung gemäss Fig. 6 sind diese Biegevorgänge bereits abeschlossen, aber sie erfolgen nach dem gleichen Prinzip gemäss der Darstellung in Fig. 6. Für jeden Biegevorgang ist ein separates Biegewerkzeug 20 vorhanden und der Zuschnitt wird von einem zum nächsten Biegewerkzeug taktweise weiter transportiert. In der Darstellung gemäss Fig. 6 sind drei nach diesem Prinzip durchgeführte Abbiegungen bereits fertig gestellt, d.h. es sind die an die beiden zu verschweissenden Ränder 10 und 11 anschliessenden Zuschnittbereiche hoch gebogen und ferner ist eine der beiden breiteren Seitenflächen des herzustellenden Dosenkörpers hoch gebogen. Zu jedem Biegewerkzeug 20 gehört ein innerhalb des herzustellenden Dosenkörpers stationär gehaltenes Formstück 21 als Gegenwerkzeug, welches Formstück eine gekrümmte Aussenfläche 22 besitzt, deren Krümmungsradius entsprechend der Elastizität und Stärke des Bleches kleiner ist als der Krümmungsradius der abgerundeten Ecke des herzustellenden Dosenkörpers. An die gekrümmte Fläche 22 schliesst sich ein ebener Formstückabschnitt 21a an. Das Formstück 21 ist oberhalb von dem Zuschnitt 3 stationär gehalten. Zum Biegewerkzeug 20 gehört ferner ein zum Andrücken von der Aussenseite dienendes Drückwerkzeug 23,24. Dieses weist einen Lagerungskörper 23 für eine in diesem Lagerungskörper gelagerte Rolle 24, ferner eine Führung 25 für den Lagerungskörper, auf welcher dieser längsverschieblich geführt ist, und eine Druckfeder 26 auf, mittels der die Rolle 24 gegen den Zuschnitt angedrückt wird, wenn die um eine zu der von der gekrümmten Fläche 22 gebildeten Biegekante parallele Achse 27 schwenkbewegliche Führung 25 mittels einer schwenkbeweglich gelagerten Hubstange 28 in Fig. 6a nach oben und entlang der gekrümmten Fläche 22 des Formstücks 21 bewegt wird, um den Zuschnitt 3 umzubiegen. Der dann erreichte Zustand ist in Fig. 6b dargestellt. Die Biegung muss um einen Bogen von mehr als 90° erfolgen, um die Materialelastizität und den grossen Biegeradius zu berücksichtigen, damit man anschliessend eine bleibende 90° Abbiegung erhält. Dieses Abbiegen über 90° hinaus geht aus Fig. 6b hervor, aus welcher Figur auch erkennbar ist, dass dabei die bereits vorher umgebogene und gegenüberstehende breite Seitenfläche des Dosenkörpers, welche bei Beginn des vierten Abbiegevorgangs noch senkrecht nach oben steht, was in gestrichelten Linien in Fig. 6b dargestellt ist, diesen Biegevorgang über 90° hinaus behindert und deshalb vorübergehend weggedrückt werden muss. Zu diesem Zweck ist nur bei dem in Fig. 6 dargestellten Biegewerkzeug 20 für die Herstellung der vierten Abbiegung zusätzlich noch ein zweiarmiger Hebel 30 vorhanden, der um eine zu der Biegekante 22 parallele Achse 31 schwenkbar ist, wobei die Schwenkebene sich vor dem Formstück 21 befindet. Von dem zweiarmigen Hebel 30 wird der eine Hebelarm 32 von dem Lagerungskörper 23 für die Rolle 24 bei der Aufwärtsbewegung des Lagerungskörpers nach oben verschwenkt und dadurch wird der zur Innenseite des herzustellenden Dosenkörpers hin abgekröpfte andere Hebelarm 33 des zweiarmigen Hebels 30 ebenfalls verschwenkt und drückt dadurch die Seitenwand des herzustellenden Dosenkörpers vorübergehend nach aussen. Die Abkröpfung des zweiarmigen Hebels 30 ist aus Fig. 6c erkennbar. Dieser zweiarmige Hebel 30 ist wie bereits erwähnt bei den anderen im übrigen gleich ausgebildeten Biegewerkzeugen für die zuvor hergestellten Abbiegungen nicht vorhanden.Following the manufacture of the beads 9 in the blank 3, the four rounded corners of the can body which is rectangular in cross section are produced in the deformation station. A bending tool 20 used for this is shown in FIG. 4, from which figure the arrangement within the deformation station 5 can be seen. The principle of the bending process is shown in Fig. 6 a, b and c. First, the areas of the blank adjoining the two blank edges 10 and 11 to be welded are each bent to the extent of half a side wall of the can body by 90 ° from the flat blank. The weld seam then comes to lie later in the middle of this side wall of the can body which is rectangular in cross section. 6, these bending processes have already been completed, but they take place according to the same principle as shown in FIG. 6. A separate bending tool 20 is provided for each bending process and the blank is transported from one bending tool to the next in cycles. In the illustration according to FIG. 6, three bends carried out according to this principle have already been completed, that is to say the cutting regions adjoining the two edges 10 and 11 to be welded are bent up and one of the two wider side surfaces of the can body to be produced is also bent up. Each bending tool 20 includes a shaped piece 21 held stationary within the can body to be produced as a counter-tool, which shaped piece has a curved outer surface 22 whose radius of curvature is smaller than the radius of curvature of the rounded corner of the can body to be produced, depending on the elasticity and thickness of the sheet. A flat shaped piece section 21a adjoins the curved surface 22. The fitting 21 is held stationary above the blank 3. The bending tool 20 also includes a pressing tool 23, 24 that is used for pressing from the outside. This has a bearing body 23 for a roller 24 mounted in this bearing body, further a guide 25 for the bearing body, on which it is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner, and a compression spring 26, by means of which the roller 24 is pressed against the blank, if that by one to the parallel axis 27 formed by the curved surface 22, the pivotable guide 25 is moved by means of a pivotably mounted lifting rod 28 in FIG. 6a and along the curved surface 22 of the shaped piece 21 in order to bend the blank 3. The state then reached is shown in Fig. 6b. The bend must be made through an arc of more than 90 ° in order to take into account the material elasticity and the large bending radius, so that a permanent 90 ° bend is subsequently obtained. This bend beyond 90 ° can be seen in FIG. 6b, from which figure it can also be seen that the wide side surface of the can body which has already been bent and opposed and which is still vertically upward at the start of the fourth bend process, which is shown in broken lines in Fig. 6b is shown, this bending process hindered beyond 90 ° and must therefore be temporarily pushed away. For this purpose, only a two-armed lever 30 is additionally present in the bending tool 20 shown in FIG. 6 for the production of the fourth bend, which lever can be pivoted about an axis 31 parallel to the bending edge 22, the pivoting plane being located in front of the shaped piece 21 . From the two-armed lever 30, the one lever arm 32 is pivoted upwards by the bearing body 23 for the roller 24 during the upward movement of the bearing body, and as a result the other lever arm 33 of the two-armed lever 30, which is bent towards the inside of the can body to be produced, is also pivoted and thereby presses the side wall of the can body to be manufactured temporarily to the outside. The offset of the two-armed lever 30 can be seen from Fig. 6c. As already mentioned, this two-armed lever 30 is not present in the other bending tools of the same design for the previously produced bends.

Wie aus Fig. 4 hervorgeht, ist der Zuschnitt 3 während der Herstellung der Abbiegung durch eine Haltevorrichtung 34 unter Mitwirkung einer Feder 35 auf dem Zwischentisch 4 festgehalten. Unterhalb des Zwischentisches 4 ist als Transporteinrichtung eine in Vorschubrichtung oszillierend bewegte Leiste 40 mit in Abständen an dieser schwenkbar angelenkten Klinken 41 angeordnet. Das Prinzip des Klinkentransports ist bekannt. Die Klinken 41 verschwenken vollkommen in die Leiste 40 hinein, wenn die Leiste unterhalb eines Dosenkörpers zurückfährt und werden unter der Wirkung einer Feder 42 nach oben bewegt, um am hinteren Rand eines von einem Zuschnitt 3 gebildeten Dosenkörpers in Eingriff zu gelangen. Ein Teil dieser Transportleiste 40 mit der Klinke 41 und der Feder 42 ist in Fig. 7 dargestellt und hier deutlicher erkennbar. Diese in Fig. 7 abgebrochen dargestellte Transportleiste 40 erstreckt sich vom Anfang der Verformungsstation 5 durch diese ganz hindurch und darüber hinaus, was nachfolgend noch näher erläutert wird. Die Biegewerkzeuge 20 sind in Vorschubrichtung dieser Transportleiste hintereinander angeordnet, der Zuschnitt 3 wird taktweise mittels der Vorschubleiste 40 und der Klinke 41 von einer zur nächsten Biegestation 20 bewegt und dabei wird durch jedes der Biegewerkzeuge 20 eine Abbiegung hergestellt, und zwar gleichzeitig bei aufeinanderfolgenden Zuschnitten 3, indem bei allen Biegewerkzeugen 20 die Hubstangen 28 durch den beweglichen Tisch 7 der Presse nach oben bewegt werden.As can be seen from FIG. 4, the blank 3 is held on the intermediate table 4 during the production of the bend by a holding device 34 with the cooperation of a spring 35. Arranged underneath the intermediate table 4 as a transport device is a bar 40 which is oscillating in the feed direction and has pawls 41 which are pivotably hinged to it at intervals. The principle of jack transport is well known. The pawls 41 pivot completely into the bar 40 when the bar retracts below a can body and are moved upwards under the action of a spring 42 in order to engage at the rear edge of a can body formed by a blank 3. A part of this transport bar 40 with the pawl 41 and the spring 42 is shown in FIG. 7 and can be seen more clearly here. This transport bar 40, shown broken off in FIG. 7, extends from the beginning of the deformation station 5 through it and beyond, which will be explained in more detail below. The bending tools 20 are arranged one behind the other in the feed direction of this transport bar, the blank 3 is intermittent by means of the feed bar 40 and the pawl 41 moved from one to the next bending station 20 and thereby a bend is made by each of the bending tools 20, at the same time with successive blanks 3, by the lifting rods 28 through the movable table 7 of the press on all bending tools 20 be moved upwards.

Wie aus Fig. 1 hervorgeht, schliesst sich an die Verformungsstation 5 eine Förderstrecke 45 für die zu verschweissenden, aus den Zuschnitten 3 gebildeten Dosenkörpern an, welche Förderstrecke sich bis kurz vor die am Ende befindliche Schweissstation 46 erstreckt, in welcher sich die beiden Schweisselektrodenrollen 47 und 48 zur Herstellung der Schweissnaht befinden. Durch die gesamte Verformungsstation 5 und längs der Förderstrecke 45 erstreckt sich die oszillierend bewegte, die Leiste 40 mit den Klinken 41 aufweisende Transporteinrichtung 40,41, zu der auch ein in Fig. 1 erkennbarer Kurbelantrieb 50 für die oszillierende Bewegung der Leiste 40 gehört. Die Kurbel 51 bewegt einen mit dieser über ein Verbindungsstück 52 verbundenen Schlitten 53, der auf zwei nebeneinander angeordneten Führungssäulen 54 geführt ist. Zwei am vorderen und hinteren Ende des Schlittens 53 angeordnete vertikale Träger 55, von denen in Fig. 7 einer abgebrochen dargestellt ist, tragen die oszillierend bewegte Leiste 40. Eine am vorderen Träger 55 angeordnete und nach vorne in Vorschubrichtung sich erstreckende Leiste 56 weist an ihren gegenüberliegenden Seitenflächen jeweils eine Steuerkurve 57 auf. Gegen jede Steuerkurve 57 ist ein am Ende eine Rolle 58 tragender Hebel 59 angedrückt, der um eine Achse 60 schwenkbar ist. Am oberen Ende des Hebels 59 befindet sich eine Rolle 61, mit der der Hebel 59 gegen einen noch nicht verschweissten Dosenkörper von der Seite andrückt. Dies erfolgt auf beiden gegenüberliegenden Seiten des Dosenkörpers um die beiden zu verschweissenden Ränder 10 und 11 des aus dem Zuschnitt 3 gebildeten Dosenkörpers gegen die Führungsschiene 62 zu drücken. Dieses Andrücken durch die beiden Hebel 59 erfolgt in der in Fig. 7 und 8 dargestellten Stellung der Transporteinrichtung mit der oszillierend bewegten Leiste 40, welche sich beim anschliessenden Bewegungstakt in Vorschubrichtung weiter nach vorne bewegt, wodurch die schwenkbaren Hebel 59 durch die Steuerkurven 57 von dem Dosenkörper weggeschwenkt werden und gleichzeitig ein nächster Dosenkörper 3 in die letzte Transportstellung vor den Schweisselektrodenrollen 47 und 48 transportiert wird.As can be seen from FIG. 1, the deformation station 5 is followed by a conveyor section 45 for the can bodies to be welded, formed from the blanks 3, which conveyor section extends to just before the welding station 46 located at the end, in which the two welding electrode rollers 47 extend and 48 for the production of the weld seam. Through the entire deformation station 5 and along the conveyor section 45 extends the oscillatingly moving transport device 40, 41, which has the bar 40 with the pawls 41, which also includes a crank drive 50, which can be seen in FIG. 1, for the oscillating movement of the bar 40. The crank 51 moves a carriage 53 connected to the latter via a connecting piece 52, which is guided on two guide columns 54 arranged next to one another. Two at the front and rear ends of the carriage 53 arranged vertical supports 55, one of which is shown broken off in FIG. 7, carry the oscillatingly moved bar 40. A bar 56 arranged on the front support 55 and extending forwards in the direction of advance points to it opposite side faces each have a control curve 57. A lever 58, which at the end carries a roller 58 and is pivotable about an axis 60, is pressed against each control cam 57. At the upper end of the lever 59 there is a roller 61 with which the lever 59 does not yet hit one presses the welded can body from the side. This takes place on both opposite sides of the can body in order to press the two edges 10 and 11 of the can body formed from the blank 3 to be welded against the guide rail 62. This pressing by the two levers 59 takes place in the position of the transport device shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 with the oscillating bar 40, which moves further forward in the subsequent movement cycle in the feed direction, as a result of which the pivotable levers 59 are moved by the control cams 57 from the Can body are pivoted away and at the same time a next can body 3 is transported into the last transport position in front of the welding electrode rollers 47 and 48.

In dem in Fig. 7 und 8 dargestellten Beispiel besitzt der Zuschnitt 3 an dem zu verschweissenden Rand 10 eine vorstehende Aufreisszunge 14 am Ende des Aufreissstreifens 13 und der Dosenkörper verjüngt sich zu seinem einen Ende hin. In diesem Fall erfolgt der Weitertransport des in Fig. 7 und 8 in der letzten Transportstellung vor den Schweisselektrodenrollen 47 und 48 befindlichen Dosenkörpers 3 durch unabhängig angetriebene weitere Transportmittel in Form einer aus zwei zueinander parallelen und gleichzeitig betätigten Zangen 70 und 71 bestehenden Doppelzange 70,71, welche den Dosenkörper zu beiden Seiten der zu verschweissenden Ränder 10 und 11 am hinteren Rand oben erfasst und in Vorschubrichtung weiter zwischen die Schweisselektrodenrollen 47 und 48 führt, wie aus Fig. 9 hervorgeht, in der die beiden nebeneinanderliegenden Zangen 70 und 71 erkennbar sind. Die beiden Zangen 70 und 71 sind zum Oeffnen und Schliessen druckluftbetätigt, zu welchem Zweck die Druckluft durch eine Leitung 72 in eine Einrichtung 73 zur Erzeugung des Betätigungshubs gelangt. Die beiden Zangen 70 und 71 sind am einen Zangenwagen 74 befestigt, der in Vorschubrichtung durch die Wirkung einer Feder 75 nach vorn bewegt wird, und der für eine Hin- und Herbewegung entsprechend geführt ist, was nicht weiter dargestellt ist. Die Rückführbewegung des Zangenwagens 74 in die in Fig. 7 dargestellte Stellung erfolgt durch einen separaten, weiteren Wagen 76, der über einen Kurbeltrieb 77 mit einem getrennten Antrieb in Verbindung steht. Die aus der Leiste 40 mit den Klinken 41 bestehenden ersten Transportmittel und die aus der Doppelzange 70,71 bestehenden zweiten Transportmittel sind also unabhängig voneinander angetrieben und in ihrem taktweisen Betrieb genau aufeinander abgestimmt.In the example shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the blank 3 on the edge 10 to be welded has a projecting tear-open tongue 14 at the end of the tear-off strip 13 and the can body tapers towards its one end. In this case, the can body 3 in the last transport position in front of the welding electrode rollers 47 and 48 in the last transport position is transported further by independently driven further transport means in the form of a pair of pliers 70, 71 consisting of two parallel and simultaneously operated pliers 70 and 71 which detects the can body on both sides of the edges 10 and 11 to be welded at the rear edge at the top and leads further in the feed direction between the welding electrode rollers 47 and 48, as can be seen from FIG. 9, in which the two adjacent pliers 70 and 71 can be seen. The two pliers 70 and 71 are operated by compressed air for opening and closing, for which purpose the compressed air is fed through a line 72 into a device 73 for generating the actuating stroke reached. The two tongs 70 and 71 are fastened to a tongs carriage 74 which is moved forward in the direction of advance by the action of a spring 75 and which is guided accordingly for a to-and-fro movement, which is not shown further. The return movement of the tong carriage 74 into the position shown in FIG. 7 is carried out by a separate, further carriage 76, which is connected to a separate drive via a crank mechanism 77. The first means of transport consisting of the bar 40 with the pawls 41 and the second means of transport consisting of the double pliers 70, 71 are thus driven independently of one another and are precisely coordinated with one another in their cyclical operation.

Für das Verschweissen der beiden Ränder 10 und 11 des Zuschnitts lässt sich die bei bekannten Widerstandsnahtschweissmaschinen verwendete Z-förmige Führungsschiene nicht verwenden, wenn an dem einen Zuschnittrand 10 eine vorstehende Aufreisszunge 14 vorsteht. Darum besitzt die im vorliegenden Fall verwendete und in Fig. 10 in grösserem Massstab dargestellte Führungsschiene 62 nur in einem kurzen Führungsschienenabschnitt 63 am einen Ende der Führungsschiene eine Nut 64 zur Aufnahme des Zuschnittrands 10, wobei die von diesem Rand vorstehende Aufreisszunge 14 vor diesem Führungsschienenabschnitt 63 zu liegen kommt. Um für das genaue Positionieren in der für das Verschweissen der Ränder notwendigen Ueberlappungslage einen weiteren Anschlag für den Zuschnittrand 10 zu haben, ist im Bereich des anderen Endes der Führungsschiene 62 ein Anschlagkörper 65 vorhanden, der am Ende eines schwenkbar gelagerten zweiarmigen Hebels 66 angeordnet ist. Am anderen Ende dieses Hebels 66 befindet sich eine Rolle 67, die gegen die Steuerkurve 68 einer Leiste 69 anliegt. Diese Leiste 69 ist an dem Zangenwagen 74 befestigt und bewegt sich mit diesem in Vorschubrichtung nach vorn, so dass nach einer bestimmten Wegstrecke der schwenkbare Hebel 66 verschwenkt wird, so dass der Anschlagkörper 65 von dem Zuschnittrand 10 entfernt wird, damit die Aufreisszunge 14 diese Stelle passieren kann. Ausserdem muss der Anschlagkörper 65 auch weggeschwenkt sein, damit die Doppelzange 70,71, die während dieser Vorschubbewegung zum Einschieben des Dosenkörpers zwischen die Schweisselektrodenrollen den Dosenkörper 3 festhält, an dem Anschlagkörper 65 sich vorbeibewegen kann. Für den anderen Zuschnittrand 11 besitzt die Führungsschiene 62 eine durchgehende Nut 62a.For the welding of the two edges 10 and 11 of the blank, the Z-shaped guide rail used in known resistance seam welding machines cannot be used if a protruding tear-open tongue 14 protrudes from the one blank edge 10. For this reason, the guide rail 62 used in the present case and shown on a larger scale in FIG. 10 has a groove 64 for receiving the cutting edge 10 only in a short guide rail section 63 at one end of the guide rail, the tear-open tongue 14 protruding from this edge in front of this guide rail section 63 comes to rest. In order to have a further stop for the cutting edge 10 for the exact positioning in the overlap position necessary for welding the edges, a stop body 65 is provided in the area of the other end of the guide rail 62, which is arranged at the end of a pivotably mounted two-armed lever 66. At the other end of this lever 66 there is a roller 67 which acts against the control curve 68 of a bar 69 rests. This bar 69 is fastened to the pliers carriage 74 and moves with it forward in the feed direction, so that after a certain distance the pivotable lever 66 is pivoted so that the stop body 65 is removed from the cutting edge 10 so that the tear-open tongue 14 takes this place can happen. In addition, the stop body 65 must also be pivoted away so that the double tongs 70, 71, which hold the can body 3 during this feed movement for inserting the can body between the welding electrode rollers, can move past the stop body 65. For the other blank edge 11, the guide rail 62 has a continuous groove 62a.

Im Bereich der beiden Schweisselektrodenrollen 47 und 48 ist eine Kalibriereinrichtung in Form von vier Rollen 80 bis 83 angeordnet, die gegen die vier abgerundeten Ecken des im Querschnitt rechteckförmigen Dosenkörpers 3 anliegen. Wenn der Dosenkörper wie im vorliegenden Fall einen über die Dosenlänge in der Grösse stetig sich ändernden Querschnitt besitzt, d.h. sich zum einen Ende hin verjüngt, wird der Dosenkörper mit dem kleineren Querschnitt vorne liegend transportiert, weshalb die Kalibrierrollen 80-83 beweglich angeordnet sein müssen, damit sie seitlich ausweichen können, weil der Querschnitt des Dosenkörpers am rückwärtigen Ende grösser ist. Die beiden Rollen 80 und 81 sind daher am Ende von schwenkbar gelagerten Hebeln 84 bzw. 85 angeordnet, die in der horizontalen Ebene verschwenkbar sind. Die beiden Rollen 82 und 83 sind jeweils durch eine Druckfeder 86 beaufschlagt, die gegen die Rolle und gegen eine Haltevorrichtung 87 abgestützt ist. Die Rollen 80-83 haben ein konkaves Aussenprofil, dessen Krümmungsradius mit dem Krümmungsradius der abgerundeten Ecken des Dosenkörpers 3 übereinstimmt.In the area of the two welding electrode rollers 47 and 48, a calibration device in the form of four rollers 80 to 83 is arranged, which bear against the four rounded corners of the can body 3, which is rectangular in cross section. If, as in the present case, the can body has a cross-section that constantly changes in size over the length of the can, ie tapers towards one end, the can body with the smaller cross-section is transported lying on the front, which is why the calibration rollers 80-83 must be movably arranged. so that they can dodge sideways because the cross section of the can body is larger at the rear end. The two rollers 80 and 81 are therefore arranged at the end of pivotably mounted levers 84 and 85, which are pivotable in the horizontal plane. The two rollers 82 and 83 are each acted upon by a compression spring 86 which acts against the roller and is supported against a holding device 87. The rollers 80-83 have a concave outer profile, the radius of curvature of which corresponds to the radius of curvature of the rounded corners of the can body 3.

Mit der vorstehend beschriebenen Einrichtung lassen sich Dosenkörper mit einem rechteckförmigen Querschnitt und abgerundeten Ecken herstellen, bei denen gleichzeitig die Grösse des Querschnitts über die Dosenkörperlänge sich stetig ändert, d.h. eine Konizität vorhanden ist. Wenn dies nicht der Fall ist, kann beispielsweise auf den wegschwenkbaren Anschlag 65 bei der Führungsschiene 62 verzichtet werden und eine andere Führungsschiene benutzt werden, die es ermöglicht, den Dosenkörper so zu führen und zu transportieren, dass die Aufreisszunge 14 sich dabei in dem in der Vorschubrichtung vorderen Bereich des Dosenkörpers befindet, so dass hinter dieser Aufreisszunge eine genügend lange Nut für den Rand vorgesehen werden kann. Durch geringe Aenderungen der vorstehend beschriebenen Einrichtung ist es somit möglich, verschiedene Arten von Dosenkörpern durch elektrisches Widerstandschweissen herzustellen.With the device described above, can bodies with a rectangular cross section and rounded corners can be produced, in which at the same time the size of the cross section changes continuously over the length of the can body, i.e. there is a taper. If this is not the case, the pivotable stop 65 on the guide rail 62 can be dispensed with, for example, and another guide rail can be used, which makes it possible to guide and transport the can body in such a way that the tear-open tongue 14 is in the position shown in FIG Feed direction is the front area of the can body, so that a sufficiently long groove can be provided for the edge behind this tear-open tongue. By making minor changes to the device described above, it is thus possible to produce different types of can bodies by means of electrical resistance welding.

Mit einer abgewandelten Ausführungsform der Schweisseinrichtung liesse sich die Längsnaht auch durch Laser-Schweissung herstellen. Ferner könnte die Längsnaht auch durch ein Klebeverfahren hergestellt werden.With a modified embodiment of the welding device, the longitudinal seam could also be produced by laser welding. Furthermore, the longitudinal seam could also be produced by an adhesive process.

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  1. A process for the manufacture of a can (tin) body of non-circular cross-section from flat sheet blanks (3) with a contour shape corresponding to the development of the can body of non-circular cross-section to be manufactured, which blanks are deformed by means of bending tools (20) at a deformation station (5) for forming the spatial form of a can body with side walls in order thereafter to connect mutually overlapping sheet blank edges (10, 11) together into a longitudinal seam, characterised in that, for the manufacture of can bodies of rectangular cross-section with rounded corners at a deformation station (5) from a flat sheet blank, firstly, the regions adjacent to the two blank edges (10, 11) to be connected are bent inwardly and up by about 90° to the extent of, respectively, one-half of a rectangular cross-section can body to be manufactured by means of a counter-tool (21) on the inside which is held stationary and a pusher tool (23, 24) which is brought to bear and is displaced on the outside, and then, from the region of the blank held fast at the centre of the blank, in the dimensions of the side wall coming to bear against the said blank edges (10, 11), two further side walls are sequentially bent up by means, respectively, of a counter-tool (21) which is internally held stationary and a pusher tool (23, 24) which is brought to bear and displaced on the outside wherein, in order to achieve 90° bending, each side wall is bent by more than 90°, having regard to the elasticity of the material and the circular bending of the plane of the blank in order to spring back to 90°; and in that during bending the last side wall is temporarily pressed back relatively to the already standing side wall by means of a two-armed lever (30) pivotable about an axis (31) parallel to the bending edge (22) via one of its lever arms (33) that is inwardly bent and functions as a pusher arm, the other lever arm (32) being actuated by the displaced pusher tool (23, 24); and that the can bodies are conveyed from the deformation station (5) by at least one transport device (40, 41, 70, 71) to a processing station (46) for the connection of the edges (10, 11) by the production of a longitudinal seam.
  2. A process according to claim 1, characterised in that, for the manufacture of can bodies of non-circular cross-section the size of which continuously varies along the length of the can body and which have rip strips (13) bonded by pre-scored desired fracture lines (12) and at the ends of the strips a free rip tab (14) projecting from an edge (10) of the sheet blank (3), the already formed can bodies are intermittently conveyed by a first transport means (40, 41) of the transport device (40, 41, 70, 71) to a position directly before the processing station for the manufacture of the longitudinal seam (46) in which position, by means of pressure from pivotable levers (59) against the oppositely lying side surfaces of the can body the edges (10, 11) to be connected are brought into an overlap position determined by a guide rail (62); and in that then in this overlap position of its edges (10, 11) the respective can body is grasped, through being held fast by clamping, by means of an independently driven second transport means (70, 71) and pushed by simultaneous pivoting away of the pusher lever (59) into the processing station for the production of the longitudinal seam (46), wherein at the same time, controlled by the drive mechanism (75) for the second transport means (70, 71), an abutment (65) cooperating with the guide rail (62) for the edge (10) of the can body provided with the rip strip (13) that has the rip tab (14) is laterally pivoted away in order to allow the rip tab to pass.
  3. A process according to either of claims 1 or 2, characterised in that, in the processing station for producing the longitudinal seam (46), the blank edges (10, 11) which after deformation respectively lie opposite each other are connected together by longitudinal seam welding in a continuous resistance seam welding apparatus.
  4. Apparatus for manufacturing a can (tin) body of non-circular cross-section from flat sheet blanks (3) with a contour shape corresponding to the development of can (tin) body of non-circular cross-section, for carrying out the process according to claim 1, with bending tools (20) as well as means for producing a longitudinal seam between overlapping blank edges (10, 11) characterised in that it has a deformation station (5) with a plurality of bending tools (20), consisting of a respective internal stationarily-held counter-tool (21) and an external pressed-on and displaced pusher tool (23, 24) for bending the blank, for the intermittent manufacture by a respective one of repeated bending actions between adjacent side walls in the course of conveyance of successive blanks (3) through a deformation station (5) in order to form can bodies of non-circular cross-section, and further has a transport device (40, 41) for the conveyance of the can body through the deformation station (5) and along a conveying track (45), as well as a processing station adjoining the end of the conveying track for the production of the longitudinal seam (46), with a calibrating device (80-83) for can bodies of non-circular cross-section arranged in the region of the seam; in that each one of the bending tools (20) for the production of a respective bending action on the can body of non-circular cross-section consists of a template part (21) which functions as a counter-piece, is held stationary internally of the can body and has an arcuate surface (22) corresponding to the radius of the bending action, and, serving for pressing from the outside, a pusher tool (23, 24) which preferably consists of a roller (24) and a journalling body (23) for the latter, which pusher tool is longitudinally displaceable along a guide against the action of a spring (26), the guide being pivotable about an axis (27) that is parallel with the bending edge (22) and perpendicular to the guide; in that by means of a lifting mechanism (28) pivotably held along the arcuate surface (22) of the template part (21), the pusher tool is reciprocatable for the purpose of deforming the can body blank (3) disposed between the template part (21) and the pusher tool (23, 24); in that a two-armed lever (30) is arranged at the bending tool for pivoting about an axis (31) parallel to the bending edge, one lever arm (33) thereof being actuatable for pivoting through the displaceable journalling body of the pusher tool (23, 24) and the other lever arm thereof being bent towards the inside of the can body (3) to be produced and, functioning as a pusher arm, bearing against the already bent side wall of the can body, in order that on bending the opposite side wall by more than 90° temporarily to push this side wall back.
  5. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterised in that all bending tools are arranged on a press bed (4) of a press (5) which is connected with a processing station for producing the longitudinal seam (46) and that all lifting mechanisms (28) are articulated to a displaceable part (7) of the press for the simultaneous actuation of the pusher tools (20).
  6. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterised in that, for the production of can bodies of rectangular cross-section with rounded corners, the arcuate surface (22) of the template part (21) extends over a circular arc of approximately 115° and adjoins a planar template section (21a) at the curved surface (22) in order to achieve a permanent 90° bending in the course of a bending process that takes place over more than 90°, having regard to the elasticity of the material.
  7. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterised in that additional drawing tools are provided at the press bed (4) for forming flat beads (9) in preferably two regions of the still flat sheet blank (3) which are destined to form opposite side walls, for the purpose of stiffening these side walls.
  8. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterised in that, for the production of can bodies of non-circular cross-section the size of which varies continuously along the length of the can body, the transport device (40, 41, 70, 71) has, in addition to the first transport means consisting of an oscillating bar (40) with pawls (41), a second independently driven second transport means (70, 71) which consists of a double pawl (70, 71) for catching the can body at its rear end on both sides of the edges (10, 11) to be connected together in the final transport position before the processing station for producing the longitudinal seam (46) and for pushing it into that station, and further including a powl carriage (74) displaced under spring force (75) in the feed direction and carrying the double powl (70, 71) as well as a drive (76,77) for guidance the powl carriage (74) back.
  9. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterised in that the calibration device (80-83) has rollers (80-83) of concave outer profile arranged at the four corners of the can body, their radii of curvature being identical with the radius of curvature of the rounded edge, and in that, for the production of can bodies the cross-section at length of which varies continuously along the length of the can body, the calibration rollers (80-83) are displaceably journalled, preferably are supported by springs (86), in order to avoid the other end of a can body of cross-sectional size that increases towards that end.
  10. Apparatus according to claim 8, characterised in that, for the manufacture of can bodies of non-circular cross-section which continually alters in magnitude along the length of the can body and which has pre-scored rip strips (13) bounded by desired fracture lines (12) and at the end of the rip strip a free rip tab (14) projecting at the edge (10) of the blank (3), it has a guide rail (62) arranged before the processing station for the production of the longitudinal seam (46), a through-going groove (62a) for receiving one of the edges (11) to be connected of the can body (3) and a shorter guide rail (63), a further groove (64) for accommodating of the end section of the other, top edge (10) with the projecting rip tab (14); and in that, for positioning this top edge (10) in the overlap position, an abutment body (65) is arranged in the vicinity of the other end of the guide rail, co-operates with the guide rail and is destined to press the edge to a pivotally journalled lever (66) at the side of the guide rail, and is controlledly laterally pivotable out of the way by means of the lever shortly before the passing of the rip tab (14) projecting from the edge (10) of the further conveyed can body.
  11. Apparatus according to claim 8 or 10, characterised in that the controlled pivotale movement of the abutment body (65) is coupled with the feed movement of the double pawls (70, 71), and in that the oscillatingly moved pawl carriage (74) carrying the double pawls carries a bar (69) provided with a control cam (68) against which bears one lever arm of the pivotably journalled lever (66) with the abutment body (65) arranged on the other lever arm.
  12. Apparatus according to claim 10 characterised in that on both sides of and at a distance from the guide rail (62) two pivotally mounted levers (59) are arranged for pressing against oppositely lying outer sides of the can body, which levers (59) press the edges (10, 11) to be connected together into the guide rail (62) and into the overlap position of the edges (10, 11) of the can body (3) which is transported in a somewhat expanded position due to the projecting rip tab (14).
  13. Apparatus according to claim 12, characterised in that, in order to press against the outer sides of the can body, the pivotal movement of the lever (59) is coupled with the feed movement of the transport device (40, 41) that is provided with the oscillatingly moved bar (40) with pawls (41), and is controlled by control cams (57) arranged at the transport device.
  14. Apparatus according to any of claims 4 to 13, characterised in that the processing station for producing the longitudinal seam on the can body (3) consists of a resistance roller seam welding device (46) with welding electrode rollers (47, 48) for electrical resistance welding.
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