Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.

Crown Cork & Seal Technologies Corporation

Philip Alan Marriott

Sylvia Maria Farrow

Benjamin Michael Fraser Zabell

Paul Robert Dunwoody

Sudesh Kumar Nayar

Andrew P Pavely

Andrew Philip Pavely

A reclosable metal container in the style of a bottle-shaped can has a conventional can body of steel or aluminum to which a metal neck component is seamed. A sleeve of plastics fits over the neck component and a detent inside the sleeve clips it onto the seam. The upper edge of the sleeve is fixed in place by a curl on the upper edge of the neck component. By using a separate neck component and hiding the seam under a sleeve, conventional sizes and material gauges can be used for the can body. Thicker material may be used for the neck component in order to withstand necking forces. Threads for closing the container may be provided either on the sleeve or, in an embodiment where the sleeve is simply used to cover the seam, on a cylindrical part of the neck component itself.

Reclosable metal container

An assembly for can manufacture includes a toolpack having coolant dies () adjacent and either side of ironing dies () so that coolant may be circulated around cavities in the coolant dies so as to cool the ironing die inserts (). Generally, the toolpack is used in conjunction with a ram (), coolant tube assembly () and ram guidance assembly () which together ensure that the ram is cooled along its entire length, up to and including the punch nose ().

Can manufacture

Can with closures

Growing community of inventors

Wantage, United Kingdom

Philip Alan Marriott