Morton Manufacturing Company

William C Morton

Jeffery W Covert

A method for manufacturing patterned tread plates including the steps of providing a press having a path for advancing a sheet therethrough, the press being equipped with a progressive die including a plurality of gaggable dies and punches arranged in a plurality of rows in the path to sequentially engage the sheet when the same is being advanced therethrough in the path, operably associating with the press a CPU having a large capacity secondary data storage device, introducing a multiplicity of codes into the secondary data storage device with each code corresponding to a different tread pattern, some of the codes including gagging instructions for the operation of the dies and punches, selecting a first set of codes and operating the CPU to control the press so as to optionally produce a predetermined number of tread plates according to the first set of codes, and thereafter selecting a second set of codes and operating the CPU to produce a predetermined number of tread plates having a different pattern than the tread plates formed according to the first set of codes.

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Barrington, IL, United States of America

William C Morton