Patent ID: 6250046
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: B23B,B67B

Abstract:
A crimping collet in combination with an automatic capping assembly, the automatic capping assembly having a chuck including a shaft for mounting said crimping collet to crimp and seal aluminum hoods of over-caps onto the necks of existing containers, said crimping collet comprising a unitary member formed with a lower cap crimping section and an upper mounting collar for attachment to the chuck of said automatic capping assembly, said lower cap crimping section further comprising a plurality of downwardly extended gripping tines spaced by a plurality of longitudinal notches for giving the gripping tines an ability to flex together, the flexed-together gripping tines forming an inwardly directed continuous radial die surface about the aluminum hoods of said over-caps;means for moving said crimping collet in two distinct movements to lock said collet onto said overcap and after locking on said overcap swaging said aluminum hoods of the overcaps by said continuous die surface of the locked gripping tines against the neck of the containers to form a circumferentially continuous hermatic seal.