Method for manufacturing container and apparatus for manufacturing container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12370595-B2
Application number	US-202318123077-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 17, 2023
Priority date	Sep 23, 2020
Publication date	Jul 29, 2025
Grant date	Jul 29, 2025

Abstract

A manufacturing a container makes it possible to easily manufacture a container including a body portion with a shape that expands outward toward an upper face side. A method for manufacturing a container according to the disclosure is a method for manufacturing a container made of metal, including a bottom portion and a body portion, open on the upper face side, and having a shape in which the body portion expands outward toward the upper face side. The method includes a bottom drawing step of reducing a diameter of a cup body made of metal and having a bottomed cylindrical shape by operating a diameter reducing die having a hole portion with a smaller diameter than an outer diameter of the cup body along a cylindrical axis direction from a bottom side, in which the bottom drawing step is repeated a plurality of times.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a cup made of metal, including a bottom portion and a body portion, open on an upper face side, and having a shape in which the body portion expands outward toward the upper face side, the method comprising:
(a) reducing a diameter of a cup body made of metal and having a bottomed cylindrical shape by operating a diameter reducing die having a hole portion with a smaller diameter than an outer diameter of the cup body along a cylindrical axis direction from a bottom side, wherein
step (a) is repeated a plurality of times,
wherein in step (a), pressure is applied to an inside of the cup body by inflow of gas into the cup body.

2. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 1 , wherein step (a) is repeated a plurality of times by using a plurality of diameter reducing dies, and
a diameter of a hole portion of a diameter reducing die used in step (a) performed earlier is greater than a diameter of a hole portion of a diameter reducing die used in step (a) performed subsequently.

3. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 1 , wherein in step (a), a core tool configured to support an inner face of a peripheral wall of the cup body is disposed inside the cup body.

4. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure applied to the inside of the cup body is from 0.05 to 0.40 MPa.

5. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein step (a) is repeated from 5 to 40 times.

6. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein
by the step (a), the body portion of the cup is formed into a shape in which an outer peripheral face thereof has a tapered face from a lowest position at 10% height of the cup to a highest position at 90% height of the cup, the tapered face having a tapered angle of from 2° to 15°, and
a distance of a projecting portion from the top of the cup to the 90% height of the cup is 20 mm or less.

7. The method for manufacturing a cup container according to claim 6 , wherein
the bottom portion has a thickness of from 0.20 mm to 0.35 mm,
the body portion has a thickness of from 0.10 to 0.22 mm in a height range of 50±10% when the total height of the cup is 100%, and
the tapered face has the tapered angle of from 3° to 10°.

8. The method for manufacturing a cup container according to claim 6 , wherein a ratio of the projecting portion to a height of the cup is from 4% to 15%.

9. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 6 , wherein a ratio of the projecting portion to a height of the cup is from 5% to 9%.

10. The method for manufacturing a cup according to claim 6 , wherein the body portion includes a contact portion with a less area configured to avoid close contact with another cup when the cup is stacked with the another cup.

11. An apparatus for manufacturing a container made of metal, including a bottom portion and a body portion, open on an upper face side, and having a shape in which the body portion expands outward toward the upper face side, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of bottom drawing dies including diameter reducing dies that have hole portions with smaller diameters than an outer diameter of a cup body made of metal and having a bottomed cylindrical shape and are configured to reduce a diameter of the cup body along a cylindrical axis direction from a bottom side of the cup body,
wherein the plurality of bottom drawing dies include an air mechanism configured to apply pressure to an inside of the cup body by inflow of gas into the cup body,
wherein the apparatus performs (a) reducing the diameter of the cup body by operating the diameter reducing die along the cylindrical axis direction from the bottom side,
step (a) is repeated a plurality of times, and
in step (a), pressure is applied by the air mechanism to the inside of the cup body by inflow of gas into the cup body.

12. The apparatus for manufacturing a container according to claim 11 , wherein diameters of the hole portions of the diameter reducing dies included in the plurality of bottom drawing dies are different from each other.

13. The apparatus for manufacturing a container according to claim 11 or 12 , wherein the plurality of bottom drawing dies include core tools disposed inside the cup body and configured to support an inner face of a peripheral wall of the cup body.

14. The apparatus for manufacturing a container according to claim 11 , wherein the air mechanism applies pressure of from 0.05 to 0.40 MPa to the inside of the cup body.

15. The apparatus for manufacturing a container according to claim 11 or 12 , wherein the number of the plurality of bottom drawing dies is from 5 to 40.

Assignees

• Toyo Seikan Co Ltd

Inventors

• Murase Takeshi
• TANAKA Shouta
• SASAJIMA Nobuhiro
• Sato Erika

Classifications

• B21D51/16

  characterised by the use of the objects (making heat exchangers B21D53/02) · CPC title

• B21D26/049

  Deforming bodies having a closed end · CPC title

• A47G19/00

  Table service · CPC title

• B65D7/04

  of curved cross-section, e.g. cans of circular or elliptical cross-section (thermally insulated B65D81/3813, B65D81/3837) · CPC title

• B21D51/26

  cans or tins; Closing same in a permanent manner (making outlet arrangements B21D51/38; welding or soldering B23K) · CPC title