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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
May. 31, 1977
Danny L McMillin, Golden, CO (US);
Enn Sirvet, Washington Township, Bergen County, NJ (US);
Coors Container Company, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
The continuous can printer and transfer apparatus is provided with infeed means devoid of moving parts, whereby cans move in a guided path by gravity through an inclined chute to stationary pockets on a rotatable pocket mandrel wheel where they are drawn from the pockets and seated by vacuum on mandrels which carry the cans to a printing blanket cylinder. Before contacting the rotating printing blanket, the surface speeds of the mandrel and printing cylinder are precisely matched by a pre-spin belt on the printing cylinder and rollers. Decorated cans are transferred to suction cups on a transfer wheel and discharged to a pin chain conveyor by a transfer assembly wherein all motions of the transfer cups are controlled in a radial and axial direction by a single cam motion.