Patent ID: 8245556
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: B21D,B44B,B65D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for use in embossing a predetermined wall zone of a thin walled container having a wall thickness in the range 0.25 mm to 0.8 mm, the embossing to coordinate with a pre-printed design on the container wall, the apparatus comprising: (i) an embossing tooling arrangement comprising internal embossing tooling to be positioned internally of the container, external embossing tooling to be positioned externally of the container, the internal embossing tooling being moveable relative to the container wall between a first tooling configuration and a second wall engaging configuration; ii) a reorientation arrangement to rotationally co-align the container and the embossing tooling arrangement with respect to one another for deformation of the wall zone;