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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1998
Reiner Sauer, Neuwied, DE;
Rassellstein Hoesch GmbH, Andernach, DE;
Abstract
A method of making can bodies from sheet metal for manufacturing cans includes the steps of: feeding and superimposing two sheet metal strips rolled to finished thickness, joining the superimposed sheet metal strips by a plurality of connecting welded seams running continuously in the longitudinal direction of the strip, with a spacing from one another in the transverse direction of the strip corresponding to half the can body diameter, through continuous passage of the superimposed sheet metal strips through a welding device with a plurality of welding heads disposed with corresponding spacings from one another, cutting the sheet metal strips welded together along the middle of each connecting welded seam to create a plurality of flat tubes lying beside one another, optionally rolling up the flat tubes for intermediate storage and/or transport, unrolling the optionally rolled-up flat tubes, cutting the flat tubes transversely into flat tube sections whose length corresponds to approximately the can height, and spreading the individual flat tube section into a can body.