Patent ID: 7114231

Claim:
Process for continuously producing and packing finished drawn metal parts in containers identifiable by a tool from which the drawn metal parts were produced, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of identifiable drawing press tools; supplying each one of the plurality of identifiable drawing press tools with a supply of metal blanks; drawing the metal blanks in the plurality of identifiable drawing press tools and providing a plurality of segregated streams of drawn metal parts, each stream being associated with one of said plurality of identifiable drawing press tools; merging the segregated streams into a single ordered stream of drawn metal parts having a repeating sequential order enabling identification of the drawing press tool in which the drawn metal part was drawn; providing a plurality of containers each of which corresponds to one of said plurality of identifiable drawing press tools; and packing the finished drawn metal parts from the ordered stream into the containers respectively corresponding to the each of the identifiable drawing press tools.