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Article: Virginia Inventors Develop Machine Line Quick Change Over Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 19, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 19 -- Joseph G. Schill and Jeffery Lee Shortridge, both of Lynchburg, Va., Christopher D. Shuey of Fishersville, Va., and Dennis Green of Johns Island, Va., have developed an apparatus for machine line.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine arrangement includes a plurality of machines arranged to cooperate with each other in a manner which comprises a machine line. This machine line incorporates apparatus which is associated with and/or comprises part of the machines for: at least one of moving, holding, manipulating and shaping cans as they pass from a can infeed to a can discharge of the machine line and move along a path having a ...