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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
May. 10, 1991
George A Grimes, Conyers, GA (US);
Dolco Packaging Corp., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A spring-oriented rotary shear key is used in a mold for forming a container with a latch opening, from a sheet of deformable material. The mold has upper and lower mold portions with die surfaces disposed facing each other and configured to press the sheet of deformable material inserted therebetween into a container. Upper and lower keys, each having a shear surface, are mounted in the upper and lower mold portions, respectively, such that the shear surfaces face each other in substantially parallel alignment to form an opening in the container as the mold portions travel towards each other. The lower key is mounted such that its shear surface rotates along an axis normal to a path of travel of the mold portions.