Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.

Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation

David William Smith

Ian Kenneth Scholey

Daniel Egerton

Frederick William Jowitt

Richard Mercer

An apparatus for rotating a container body that utilizes frictional forces rather than the engagement of gears to rotate the container body is provided. Such an apparatus may include a stationary housing and a turret rotating on a shaft proximate to the housing. The turret may have a plurality of pockets and a roller assembly disposed within each pocket. Each roller assembly may have a body portion and a drive roller portion. Each body portion may have a contact portion for contacting a container body received in a respective pocket. Each drive roller may be in contact with the housing such that as the turret rotates, friction between the drive rollers and the housing causes each roller assembly to rotate.

Apparatus for rotating a container body

A winder assembly is provided for rotating a component of a can necking machine to a desired angular position suitable for performing maintenance on the component. The winder assembly includes a shaft coupled to a motor of that drives the components of the can necking machine during operation. A handle can be removably connected to the shaft, such that rotation of the handle in a rotational direction correspondingly causes the shaft to rotate. The shaft causes the motor to rotate, which drives a gear train that rotates the components of the necking machine that are coupled to the gear train.

Container manufacturing process having front-end winder assembly

Apparatus for a making can bodies comprises a reciprocating punch and a rotary turret ( ) mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis parallel to the axis of the punch. A plurality of flexible finger sets ( ) spaced circumferentially around the turret and extending generally radially from the turret are adapted to pick up, support and convey can bodies ( ) stripped from the punch as the turret rotates. The turret is driven in rotation at a cyclically varying angular velocity such that the angularly velocity of finger set ( ) is less at the moment when it engages a can body stripped from the punch than at other times.

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Keighley, United Kingdom

David William Smith