American National Can Company

National Can Corporation

Anheuser-busch Companies, Inc.

John M Mann

Nelson N Chernikoff

Thomas E Moloney

Edward K Cassidy

Michael M Shulski

Edward S Traczyk

Andrew Halasz

Richard D Zenger

Vertical paneled wall for a container

Apparatus for assembling base cups onto bottles includes an assembly wheel that has a plurality of pockets on the periphery thereof and a plurality of fluid cylinders supported on an upper support plate and aligned with the pockets. The assembly wheel is positively driven by a drive motor, which also drives a bottle-infeed mechanism and a cup-infeed mechanism, as well as an ejector mechanism. The cup-infeed mechanism includes as indexable carrier that indexes each cup at a glue-applying station, where the cup is raised and simultaneously rotated while glue is being applied in an annular pattern to the inner surface of the cup. The cup and bottle have movement along paths which merge where the bottle is then forced into the cup through a pressurized source and held in that position while the glue sets.

Apparatus for applying base cups to bottles

A container embossing apparatus includes a container-supporting embossing mandrel that has circumferentially-spaced, axially-extending ribs on the periphery that are engageable with a resilient forming mandrel or member so that crease lines are formed on the container during the embossing operation.

Container processing apparatus

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Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

John M Mann