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US3085324A
US3085324A US803446A US80344659A US3085324A US 3085324 A US3085324 A US 3085324A US 803446 A US803446 A US 803446A US 80344659 A US80344659 A US 80344659A US 3085324 A US3085324 A US 3085324A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D51/00—Making hollow objects
    • B21D51/16—Making hollow objects characterised by the use of the objects
    • B21D51/38—Making inlet or outlet arrangements of cans, tins, baths, bottles, or other vessels; Making can ends; Making closures
    • B21D51/44—Making closures, e.g. caps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/10—Caps or cap-like covers adapted to be secured in position by permanent deformation of the wall-engaging parts
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49789—Obtaining plural product pieces from unitary workpiece
    • Y10T29/49796—Coacting pieces
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/49908—Joining by deforming
    • Y10T29/49915—Overedge assembling of seated part
    • Y10T29/49917—Overedge assembling of seated part by necking in cup or tube wall

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  • This application relates to the manufacture of two-piece container closures of the type comprising :a closure disc with a turned-down edge and a flanged retaining collar, and particularly to the manufacture of such closures in which the two parts are made from a single blank by drawing the blank to form a shell having a top and a skirt, severing the skirt near its top to provide a collar and a closure disc with a turned edge and deforming the collar to retain the disc in place.
  • FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view showing the drawn shell prior to severing the skirt
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the pants after severing the skirt of the shell
  • FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the association of the parts as they leave the severing unit and, partly broken away, the press table on which the parts tnavel;
  • FIG. 4 is a similar view showing the parts as they leave the flanging unit
  • FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view showing the asmuld parts as they leave the grooving unit.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic plan view illustrating the preferred installation for carrying out the method of my invention.
  • two-piece closures be made from a single blank, since this results in less scrap loss than blanking the collar and disc from separate sheets, and this has been done by severing the top and part of the skirt of .a drawn shell from the remainder of the skirt to provide an edged disc and a collar and sizing the disc to assure passage within the collar. It is also preferable that two-piece closures be assembled so as to permit relative movement of the parts when being removed from a container, yet securely enough to permit further handling as units, and attempts toward this result have been made by flanging the collar above the disc and deforming the collar, as by forming a groove therein, below the disc. Since my invention is not concerned with the particular known means for severing, flanging and grooving, none are shown in the drawings.
  • the shell 10 be drawn with a shoulder 11.
  • the shell may be provided with a beaded'edge 12 and any required knurling and decorating operations may, if desired, be carried out before feeding the shell, by any suitable means, such as star wheel .17, to the severing means.
  • any suitable means such as star wheel .17, to the severing means.
  • the shell 10 which may be inverted as shown, is severed as by pinching or shearing at the shoulder 11 to form a collar 13 and a separate disc 14 with a turned edge 15, the disc is placed within the collar by the axial or telescoping movement illustrated by FIGS.
  • the assembly shown in FIG. 5 can be fed as a unit to subsequent operating stations, such as, for example, to equipment for placing a liner therein, which may be done by flowing liner material and molding it in place, so long as the thickness of the flowed material does not exceed the depth of the turned edge of the disc, or treated as a finished product for sale to packagers who provide the sealing liner and apply the closure to a container by reforming the collar below the groove to conform to closure-retaining formations on a container.
  • subsequent operating stations such as, for example, to equipment for placing a liner therein, which may be done by flowing liner material and molding it in place, so long as the thickness of the flowed material does not exceed the depth of the turned edge of the disc, or treated as a finished product for sale to packagers who provide the sealing liner and apply the closure to a container by reforming the collar below the groove to conform to closure-retaining formations on a container.
  • the groove is preferably formed by a rotary operation, and a bead and a flange can be spun, combination of these three operations, in making a closure of sufficient height to allow room for the tools, would be within the skill of those practicing the closure making art, and, if the knurling is to be placed below the groove, suitable tools might be developed to add this fourth operation at a single rotary work station, requiring my improved transfer only for moving the parts from the severing unit to the four-operation unit. Resort to any of these alternatives or to any combination of them would not remove the method from the scope of the appended claims.
  • the method of making a two-piece contain-er closure from a single blank comprising providing a shell having a top and a skirt, completely severing the skirt on a plane parallel to and below the top to form a collar and a separate disc with an integral turned edge extending toward said collar, maintaining the severed collar and disc in their initial axial alignment, placing said disc within said collar by relative axial movement of the disc and collar, moving the collar with the disc therewithin, upon and relatively to a flat surface to prevent accidental separation of the disc from within the collar during such movement, into position for deforming the collar, and deforming the collar above and below the disc to retain the disc between the deformations.
  • the method of making a two-piece container closure from a single blank comprising providing a shell having a top and a skirt, completely severing the skirt on a plane parallel to and below the top to form a collar and a separate disc with an integral turned edge extending toward said collar, mainti-ning the severed collar and disc in their initial axial alignment, placing said disc within said collar by relative axial movement of the disc and collar, moving the collar with the disc therewithin, upon and relatively to a fiat surface to prevent accidental separation of the disc from within the collar during such movement, into position for deforming the collar, deforming the collar to provide a support beneath the disc, moving the collar with the disc resting on the support into position for further deforming the collar, and defiorming the collar above the disc to retain the disc against the support.

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April 16, 1963 D. G. NELSON METHOD OF MAKING TWO-PIECE CLOSURE CAPS Filed April 1, 1959 5 INVENTOR.
David G. Ale/son ATTORNEY United Sttes This application relates to the manufacture of two-piece container closures of the type comprising :a closure disc with a turned-down edge and a flanged retaining collar, and particularly to the manufacture of such closures in which the two parts are made from a single blank by drawing the blank to form a shell having a top and a skirt, severing the skirt near its top to provide a collar and a closure disc with a turned edge and deforming the collar to retain the disc in place.
It is an object of this invention to .provide an improved method for the manufacture of two-piece closures. More particularly, it is an object of the invention to simplify the manufacture of two-piece closures from a single blank. Specifically, the object of the invention is to provide an improved transfer of the articles after severing whereby the improved two-piece closures are made with fewer steps and, consequently, in less space. Other objects and advantages will appear from the following description of a preferred form of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view showing the drawn shell prior to severing the skirt;
FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the pants after severing the skirt of the shell;
FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the association of the parts as they leave the severing unit and, partly broken away, the press table on which the parts tnavel;
FIG. 4 is a similar view showing the parts as they leave the flanging unit;
FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view showing the as sembled parts as they leave the grooving unit; and
FIG. 6 is a schematic plan view illustrating the preferred installation for carrying out the method of my invention.
It is preferable that two-piece closures be made from a single blank, since this results in less scrap loss than blanking the collar and disc from separate sheets, and this has been done by severing the top and part of the skirt of .a drawn shell from the remainder of the skirt to provide an edged disc and a collar and sizing the disc to assure passage within the collar. It is also preferable that two-piece closures be assembled so as to permit relative movement of the parts when being removed from a container, yet securely enough to permit further handling as units, and attempts toward this result have been made by flanging the collar above the disc and deforming the collar, as by forming a groove therein, below the disc. Since my invention is not concerned with the particular known means for severing, flanging and grooving, none are shown in the drawings.
It is preferred for the practice of my invention that the shell 10 be drawn with a shoulder 11. The shell may be provided with a beaded'edge 12 and any required knurling and decorating operations may, if desired, be carried out before feeding the shell, by any suitable means, such as star wheel .17, to the severing means. After the shell 10, which may be inverted as shown, is severed as by pinching or shearing at the shoulder 11 to form a collar 13 and a separate disc 14 with a turned edge 15, the disc is placed within the collar by the axial or telescoping movement illustrated by FIGS. 2 and 3 and the collar 13, with the disc 14 therein, is moved on the flat surface of table 16, as by star wheels 17, 18 and 19, to the flanging unit where a suitable curling die turns the edge of the collar to form a flange 22 under the disc. The collar, with the disc resting on this flange, is then moved further on the table by the star wheels 19, 20 and 21 to the grooving unit where the groove 23 is formed in the collar on the opposite side of the disc from the flange 22, so that the disc is held between the flange and the groove. It will be understood that transfer from one to another of the star wheels 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 is assured by cooperation of the guide strips 24 and that the star wheels move the parts laterally over the surface of the table 16.
The assembly shown in FIG. 5 can be fed as a unit to subsequent operating stations, such as, for example, to equipment for placing a liner therein, which may be done by flowing liner material and molding it in place, so long as the thickness of the flowed material does not exceed the depth of the turned edge of the disc, or treated as a finished product for sale to packagers who provide the sealing liner and apply the closure to a container by reforming the collar below the groove to conform to closure-retaining formations on a container.
It will be understood that it is within the concept of my invention to carry out the steps without inventing the shell, since any of the usual dies for severing, hanging and grooving can be inverted and it is necessary only that the parts be upright for transfer in accordance with my invention. It is also immaterial when such operations as beading and knurling take place. In fact, since the groove is preferably formed by a rotary operation, and a bead and a flange can be spun, combination of these three operations, in making a closure of sufficient height to allow room for the tools, would be within the skill of those practicing the closure making art, and, if the knurling is to be placed below the groove, suitable tools might be developed to add this fourth operation at a single rotary work station, requiring my improved transfer only for moving the parts from the severing unit to the four-operation unit. Resort to any of these alternatives or to any combination of them would not remove the method from the scope of the appended claims.
I claim:
1. The method of making a two-piece contain-er closure from a single blank comprising providing a shell having a top and a skirt, completely severing the skirt on a plane parallel to and below the top to form a collar and a separate disc with an integral turned edge extending toward said collar, maintaining the severed collar and disc in their initial axial alignment, placing said disc within said collar by relative axial movement of the disc and collar, moving the collar with the disc therewithin, upon and relatively to a flat surface to prevent accidental separation of the disc from within the collar during such movement, into position for deforming the collar, and deforming the collar above and below the disc to retain the disc between the deformations.
2. The method of making a two-piece container closure from a single blank comprising providing a shell having a top and a skirt, completely severing the skirt on a plane parallel to and below the top to form a collar and a separate disc with an integral turned edge extending toward said collar, mainti-ning the severed collar and disc in their initial axial alignment, placing said disc within said collar by relative axial movement of the disc and collar, moving the collar with the disc therewithin, upon and relatively to a fiat surface to prevent accidental separation of the disc from within the collar during such movement, into position for deforming the collar, deforming the collar to provide a support beneath the disc, moving the collar with the disc resting on the support into position for further deforming the collar, and defiorming the collar above the disc to retain the disc against the support.
3. The method of making a two-piece container closure from a single blank comprising providing a shell having. a top and a skirt having an outward shoulder, completely severing the skirt at the shoulder to form a collar and a separate disc with an integral turned edge extending toward said collar, reducing the diameter of the disc While maintaining the severed collar and disc in their initial axial alignment, placing said disc Within said collar by relative axial movement of the disc and collar, moving the collar with the disc therewithin, upon and relatively to a flat surface to prevent accidental separation of the disc from within the collar during such movement, into position in a fianging unit, forming a flange on the collar beneath the disc, moving the collar with the disc resting on the flange into position in a grooving unit, and forming an annular groove in the collar to retain the disc between the flange and groove.
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1. THE METHOD OF MAKING A TWO-PIECE CONTAINER CLOSURE FROM A SINGLE BLANK COMPRISING PROVIDING A SHELL HAVING A TOP AND A SKIRT, COMPLETELY SEVERING THE SKIRT ON A PLANE PARALLEL TO AND BELOW THE TOP TO FORM A COLLAR AND A SEPARATE DISCS WITH AN INTEGRAL TURNED EDGE EXTENDING TOWARD SAID COLLAR, MAINTAINING THE SEVERED COLLAR AND DISC IN THEIR INITIAL AXIAL ALIGNMENT, PLACING SAID DISC AND COLLAR, MOVING THE COLLAR WITH THE DISC THEREWITHIN, UPON AND RELATIVELY TO A FLAT SURFACE TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL SEPARATION OF THE DISC FROM WITHIN THE COLLAR DURING SUCH MOVEMENT, INTO POSITION FOR DEFORMING THE COLLAR, AND DEFORMING THE COLLAR ABOVE AND BELOW THE DISC TO RETAIN THE DISC BETWEEN THE DEFORMATIONS.
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