Patent ID: 8857232

Claim:
A method of forming a vessel, comprising: providing a plurality of operation wheels configured in opposing facing pairs, each operation wheel including a plurality of work zones, each work zone of an operation wheel configured in an opposing facing pair with a work zone of another operation wheel to engage the vessel and perform a forming operation on the vessel; linearly pushing opposing facing pairs of the operation wheels to a closed position to engage the vessel; performing, by at least one of the work zones, at least one forming operation on the vessel; linearly pulling opposing facing pairs of the operation wheels to an open position to allow the vessel to be indexed to other operation positions; and indexing the vessel through the operations at a rotational timing coordinated to index the vessel when opposing facing pairs of the operation wheels are in the open position, the indexing being clockwise or counterclockwise based on whether a decoration operation is to be performed on the vessel.