A Tool to Automation - Lubrication Attachment for Press Tool Machines

Tin containers form an indispensible category of packaging the goods. The fact becomes pronounced in case of food packaging techniques (powdered milk, soft drinks, fruit pulp, Beer packaging). Press tool is the single economic technology for the production of tin containers and the process requires lubrication of the contact area between the press tool punch-die and the raw material. The application of lubrication can be done in variety of ways. The paper deals with one of the kind lubricant application technique, the attachment to the press machine it-self and run by same power of the machine. The intention for the development was to reduce the human effort and time to apply the lubricant manually and the labor intensive production unit towards automation. Also the other purpose was to nullify occasions of frequent accidents to people handling the raw material tin sheets and labor over heads involved in. The development process was carried out and implemented at one of the well-known companies of tin containers, KCC (KAIRA CAN CO.) Ltd, Kanjari, Dist.-Anand, Gujarat-India.