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Patent Awarded to Belvac

7/07/09

Lynchburg, Va., July 7, 2009 -- Belvac Production Machinery, Inc., A Dover Company (NYSE-DOV), and a leader in 2 piece can machinery manufacturing, has been awarded a new United States patent for their Can Manufacturing Apparatus on the various can forming machine products. The new patent is U.S. #7,497,145, is for Pre-Loaded Cam Follower Arrangement.
Defined by the patent abstracts as: ” A cam follow arrangement has a rectangular-shaped through hole formed in an end portion of a ram member, the through hole having first and second opposed ends and a pair of parallel sides. A slider which is disposed in the rectangular-shaped through hole is configured to be slidable back and forth along the parallel sides toward and away the first and second ends. A spring is disposed between the slider and the first end of the rectangular-shaped through hole to bias the slider toward the second end of the rectangular-shaped through hole.”