摘要:
Method and apparatus for fabricating a one-piece can body, with profiled closed end, from electrolytically metal plated, flat rolled steel. An axially-recessed bead (74) is formed in the endwall of a drawn cup by pulling sidewall metal for movement into such endwall. A bodymaker redraw of the cup positions sheet metal of the bead to form a closed end angled portion (84) extending from a circular configuration base support toward the sidewall. Following sidewall ironing a substantially-planar endwall panel (85), radially inward of the base support (86), is formed into a concave dome (88) by moving sidewall metal into the closed end of the body, thus substantially avoiding thinning of the closed end sheet material.
摘要:
New composite-coated flat-rolled steel products and new methods of manufacture in which low-carbon steel (16), as received in cold-reduced continuous strip form is prepared for plating; a corrosion prevention plating (24) is applied, and a polymeric coating with lubricant (26) is applied as a finish surface. The resulting composite-coated steel substrate is cold-rolled (36) to decrease the gage of the coated substrate. Optionally, cold-rolling steps (14) and/or stress relief heat treatment steps (10, 20) may be employed prior to surface treatment. This process provides for tin mill manufacture of composite-coated steel of various weights per unit area, for example, in the range of 35 to about 100 lb/bb, useful in the manufacture of can bodies.
摘要:
A closure (27) with edge protection for a peripherally-located scoreline (34) which defines a removable disc (31). A back scoreline (132) located within the disc co-acts with a rigid (non-lanced) opener (30), made integral by a rivet (32) formed in the disc. The back scoreline central portion (160) is contiguous to and radially inward of such rivet and, a pair of legs (163, 164) extend on opposite sides of the rivet toward the adjacent portion of the peripheral scoreline such that rupture of the back scoreline legs tends to move the opener in a radial direction of the end wall closure. Such radially-directed movement of the opener is controlled, and the working end of the opener is turned inwardly. The remainder of the peripheral scoreline is severed by continuing arcuate movement of the handle end of the opener which placed the handle end radially outboard of the container for lever action opening using the chime seam (170) as a fulcrum.
摘要:
A draw die cavity entrance (47, 74) is selected to provide at least a major portion of its curvilinear surface having a radius of curvature of about five times nominal sheet metal thickness gage, or less, e.g. a maximum radius of curvature of .04 inch is used for the more commonly used can stock materials. During cup redraw, nesting of curvilinear clamping surfaces (21, 26) of the prior art is eliminated; the compound curvilinear juncture of a work product cup, between its end wall and side wall, is reshaped about a clamping ring compound curvilinear transition zone (72) of smaller surface area than the cup juncture and, the sheet metal is clamped solely between planar clamping surfaces (63, 71) during redraw to a smaller diameter utilizing a male punch (66) with a punch nose (79) having a significantly larger surface area than that of the cavity entrance zone.
摘要:
Method steps and apparatus combinations for continuous in-line polymeric coating of rigid corrosion-protected flat-rolled sheet metal continuous-strip substrate utilizing a thermoplastic polymeric material having adhesive characteristics, capable of molten thin-film extrusion for chemical-bonding with an activated-surface of the flat-rolled sheet metal substrate, and substantially-simultaneously bonding with a solid-film polymeric material, establishing a work-product embodiment with multiple-polymer-layers traveling with the single activated surface; and, on which the solid polymeric film is selected to provide strength, hardness and other desired surface mechanical properties which also provide for external surface coloration, design, weather-proofing, and fabricating capabilities. A second embodiment provides dual-surface multiple-polymeric layer coating carried on by activating and polymeric coating one surface, at a time, of rigid corrosion-protected flat-rolled sheet metal continuous strip substrate.
摘要:
Engineered composite coated flat-rolled steel strip is produced in continuous line operations, in which flat-rolled steel strip, free of surface iron oxide, having a metallic corrosion-protective coating, is polymer coated in continuous-line operations in which a plurality of adherent thin-film layers of polymeric material are deposited on a strip surface. In a dual-surface polymeric coating embodiment, each surface is separately-pretreated for surface adhesion, solidified, and polymeric overhang is removed. Finish processing re-melts the polymer coating and rapidly cools that coating through glass-transition temperature to establish amorphous characteristics in the polymeric coating materials. An anhydride-modified polypropylene, first contacts the strip, an intermediate layer can include about fifteen to twenty five percent, by weight, polybutylene with the balance polypropylene; an outer surface polymeric layer includes about five to ten percent, by weight, polybutylene with the balance polypropylene.
摘要:
Rigid container structure (22) for hermetic sealing of particulate solids which emit an off-gas during containment. Provisions are made for enclosing chamber space (27) with a gas-permeable imperforate membrane film (30) so as to selectively separate and retain an off-gas out of contact (28) with container contents. In a specific embodiment, carbon dioxide is selectively separated from coffee contents while the entire container, including such enclosed chamber as established, is hermetically sealed from ambient atmosphere. Provision is also made for venting of a separated off-gas in initiating a rupture of an end closure structure prior to full opening of the container. That arrangement further diminishes the opportunity for inadvertent discharge of particulate solids due to expulsion of gas from inert gas purging and from gas emitted during hermetic sealing.
摘要:
Processes and apparatus for manufacturing an engineeredcomposite combining rigid flat-rolled sheet metal continuousstrip and selected polyester thermoplastics, which are formed into distinct polymeric layers for melted extrusion deposition on a single surface, at a time, using pressure dies, and other steps, for forming a uniform coat of distinct polymeric layers, which provide high green-strength-adhesion during continuous-inline travel; and including dual-surface finishing for complete bonding of the polymeric layers on both metallic surfaces.
摘要:
A new combination of steel strip electrolytic plating process steps which eliminate iron ion dissolution from continuous-strip steel substrate into chemically-corrosive plating solutions, such as Halogen-bath or methylsulphonic acid plating solutions, of horizontal passline electrolytic tin plating means which plate a single strip surface at a time. The previous use of a cyanide in Halogn-bath tin plating operations which formed a hazardous precipitant (prussian blue) is eliminated by eliminating iron ion dissolution from the steel strip substrate. Conversion of stannous ions to stannic ions, which formed additional Halogen-bath precipitant, is substantially eliminated. Also, new electrolytic plated product, with improved corrosion-prevention characteristics, is provided in which a flat-rolled steel substrate strike-coat of tin and/or nickel is plated simultaneously with electrolytic pickling of such cleansed substrate; pickle-plating is carried out prior to finish-surface electrolytic tin plating in such a horizontal passline electrolytic tin plating means.
摘要:
The continuous steel strip cleansing system includes a special separation means (70) for separation, removal and retention of the iron fines and associated debris. In the flat-rolled steel continuous-strip cleansing embodiment, contaminated surface areas of strip (72) are treated, generally by at least partial submersion, in a main tank (73) having sufficient capacity to provide desired travel through a hot caustic solution. Cleaning solution with accompanying contaminants is preferably withdrawn continuously from a preselected location, or locations, and directed through a conduit, such as (76). Monitoring of iron fines in the main tank (73) is schematically indicated at (77). A continuously-operable mechanical filtering structure (78) is preferably selected to provide for withdrawal of a portion of the capacity of main tank (73) at a controlled rate. Filtrate, from which iron fines and associated debris have been mechanically filtered, is continuously returned from mechanical filtering structure (78) through conduit (80) to main tank (73).