This disclosure relates to a machine for receiving can bodies and automatically outwardly expanding the same to a decorative predetermined contour. The machine includes special transfer means for positioning can bodies on and removing can bodies from supports moving in a convex arcuate path, the transfer device including a turret member mounted for rotation about a fixed axis, a plurality of article carriers pivotally carried by the turret member for movement therewith in a generally circular path, and control means for controlling the contour of a portion of the generally circular path to be coincident with a portion of the arcuate path.
申请公布号
US4059186(A)
申请公布日期
1977.11.22
申请号
US19730400499
申请日期
1973.09.25
申请人
THE CONTINENTAL GROUP, INC.
发明人
ASCHBERGER, ANTON A.;AVERY, JACK L.;CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM J.;DEAN, GEOFFREY J.;TYSVER, OLIVER J.;WOLFE, ROBERT W.;BAUTZ, FREDERICK H.