Patent ID: 9533338
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B21D,B23Q,B30B,F16C

Claim:
1. An outboard guide bearing assembly for a can bodymaker, said bodymaker including an elongated ram body with a length sufficient for passage through a die pack and/or a redraw assembly of the bodymaker, a crank assembly, and a housing assembly, said crank assembly including a reciprocating crank arm, said outboard guide bearing assembly comprising: a carriage assembly including a body with a ram coupling, a crank coupling, and a number of bearing assemblies; said carriage assembly bearing assemblies are separated from said ram body; said ram coupling structured to be coupled to said ram body; said crank coupling structured to be coupled to said crank arm; wherein said carriage assembly body is structured to travel generally in a plane and to reciprocate between a retracted, first position and a forward, second position; and wherein no bearing assembly directly contacts said ram body such that a cantilever length of said ram body, defined as a length between a free end of said ram body and the carriage assembly body ram coupling, remains constant when said carriage assembly is reciprocated between the retracted, first position and the forward, second position.