DOME FORMING SYSTEM

摘要

A dome forming system (50) includes multi-lane progressive tooling which forms can ends from a metal strip (M). The strip is fed through an array of progressive tooling. Blanks (60), from which the domes are formed, are produced in the strip and connected thereto by multiple carrying strips (62). These carrying strips (62) allow sufficient mobility of the blanks (60) with respect to the strip to achieve precise alignment with the tooling sets at different stations in the progression. At the final station (IX), the completed domes are separated from the skeleton and moved rapidly out of the system, and the skeleton may be chopped up for recycling.