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Belvac Awarded New Patent #6,752,052....

6/22/04

Lynchburg, Va., September 16, 2003 -- Belvac Production Machinery, Inc., A Dover Company (NYSE-DOV), and a leader in 2 piece can machinery manufacturing, has been awarded patent 6,752,052 for a new apparatus for 2 piece can trimming.

Defined by the patent abstract as:
"... A cutter assembly and a method of using a cutter assembly. The cutter assembly comprises a fixed knife support shaft with a top end and a bottom end, a fixed knife mounted adjacent the top of the fixed knife support shaft, a moving knife support shaft with a top end and a bottom end and a moving knife mounted adjacent the top of the fixed knife support shaft, wherein the moving knife has a non-cutting position and a cutting position and the moving knife support is adapted to be rotated about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the moving knife support shaft to put the moving knife into the cutting position."

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells high performance machinery systems for the plastic container, and two-piece metal container markets, with 40 years of recognized precision leadership worldwide.