https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2b5b3ed9-877d-4b58-8130-d773ca4a215f Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1960s film might be titled "Can Making Machinery" -- we cannot be sure because the main title is missing. It was likely made to promote E.W. Bliss, a company known for manufacturing high-speed, automated machinery for metal can production. Specifically, the Bliss 1103 scroll shear, the Bliss number 1831 strip feed press, and the Bliss number 603 body maker are designed to efficiently produce large quantities of sanitary cans with precision and minimal material waste. The film describes the process of manufacturing sanitary cans for packaging food and other products. It covers the entire production line, from the initial construction of the can body, top, and bottom, to the high-speed machinery used to produce these cans in large quantities. The process includes trimming and cutting tin sheets, applying protective coatings, forming and soldering the can bodies, and ensuring airtight seals. The E. W. Bliss Company was founded in 1885 by Eliphalet Williams Bliss. The company at one time was owned by American corporation Gulf and Western Industries before it was consolidated into Bliss Clearing Niagara. • 0:10: Introduction to the construction of a sanitary can, which consists of a body, top, and bottom. The sealing compound around the top and bottom ensures the can is airtight. • 0:34: Producing millions of cans requires high-speed, complicated equipment. • 0:54 : The process starts with trimming and cutting sheets, which are then coated or lacquered on the inside. • 1:17: Efforts to reduce material costs by minimizing scrap through proper layout and interlocking cuts. • 2:00 : The automatic sheet feeder and slitting cutters ensure sheets are trimmed and squared accurately. • 2:58: A double sheet detector stops the machine if two sheets are fed simultaneously. • 3:19 : The magnetic feed bar carries sheets past stop fingers to ensure accurate strip width. • 4:01: The Bliss number 1103 scroll shear eliminates idle strokes, ensuring every stroke is a cutting stroke. • 5:01: The Bliss number 1831 strip feed press blanks and forms can ends at high speeds. • 6:00 : Overlapping strips ensure each press stroke produces two can ends. • 7:00 : Scrap is automatically discharged by a timed roll-type scrap ejector. • 7:22 : Ends are conveyed to a curler and then to a compound applying machine for an airtight seal. • 8:06: Only one operator is needed to keep the line operating efficiently due to a unique conveying system. • 8:59: Making can bodies involves producing a body blank, forming the body, soldering the side seam, flanging both ends, and double seaming the bottom. • 9:51: The Bliss number 5325 duplex slitter produces body blanks from large sheets. • 10:36: Sheets are trimmed and slit into strips, which are then cut into body blanks. • 11:22: Magnetic rollers and feed chain fingers ensure strips are fed accurately to the cutters. • 12:34: The Bliss number 603 body maker performs multiple operations to produce a can body with a locked and soldered side seam. • 13:19 : The body maker can produce various sizes of sanitary cans with regular change parts. • 14:07: The 603 performs eight operations, including flexing, knurling, notching, edging, flux application, forming, side seaming, and soldering. • 15:03: Detailed steps of forming and soldering the can body. • 16:39 : The soldering attachment preheats, solders, and post-heats the can body, ensuring a proper seam. • 18:06: Bodies are inspected and conveyed to a flanger. • 18:27: The Bliss number 1315 flanger flanges both ends of the body simultaneously. • 19:11: Double seamer attaches can ends to the body, making it a complete can. • 20:05: The Bliss number 304 air tester ensures perfect cans by detecting and ejecting imperfect ones. • 21:11: Conveying system ensures proper flow of cans between machines. • 22:49: The final step is closing the can at the packing plant, where the can bodies and tops are brought together. 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