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Belvac Awarded Six United States Patents

2/17/09

Lynchburg, Va., February 17, 2009 -- Belvac Production Machinery, Inc., A Dover Company (NYSE-DOV), and a leader in 2 piece can machinery manufacturing, has been awarded six United States patents for their Quick Change Necking Apparatus on the various can forming machine products. The new patents are U.S. #7,310,983; #7,387,007; #7,404,309; #7,409,845; #7,418,852; #7,454,944



Defined by the patent abstracts as:
”A machine arrangement includes a plurality of machines arranged to cooperate with each other in a manner which comprises a machine line. This machine line incorporates apparatus which is associated with and/or comprises part of the machines for: at least one of moving, holding, manipulating and shaping cans as they pass from a can infeed to a can discharge of the machine line and move along a path having a predetermined configuration. This apparatus minimizes operations necessary for changing from a set up suitable for modifying a can having a first set of dimensions to a set up suitable for a can having a second set of dimensions.”