Product Overview
Canmaking Industry Solutions, designed and built for the aluminium and beverage Canning industries.
Earing measurement solutions provide reliable and repeatable earing profile results for aluminium and aluminium alloys compliant with EN 1669 and ISO 11531.
Huxley Bertram offers two models of machine for Earing Measurement and one model for Wall Analysis: a Contactless Earing Measurement unit, an Automatic Cupping and Earing Measurement unit and a Contactless Can Wall Analysis Machine. All were developed in conjunction with leading Aluminium manufacturers worldwide.
Automatic Cupping and Earing Measurement Machine
For customers needing to measure earing on large numbers of cups, Huxley Bertram developed the automatic machine that cuts, draws and measures a standard 33 mm cup at rates of up to 100 cups per hour.
Aluminium from 0.2 mm to 4.0 mm can be drawn and earing measured to an accuracy of 10 microns.
This machine is also provided with Huxley Bertram’s Advanced Earing Analysis Package with algorithms developed over our years of earing experience to facilitate rapid and accurate earing analysis.
Optional sensors are available to record, clamp, draw and cutting force for research and development purposes.
Contactless Earing Measurement Machine
A highly flexible, high speed and high accuracy, benchtop, Earing Measurement machine, adjustable to measure cups from 30 mm to 100 mm internal diameter and up to 150 mm tall, with a measurement accuracy of 10 microns.
These machines are used by sheet metal manufactures and beverage can makers around the world. This is our second-generation machine with many of the first generation still being used around the world.
The machine has recently been remodelled to bring it right up to date with a state of the art controller and is provided with Huxley Bertram’s Advanced Earing Analysis Package with algorithms developed over years of earing experience to facilitate rapid and accurate earing analysis.
An expanded version of the machine for bigger cups is also available.
Contactless Can Wall Analysis Machine
A highly accurate and detailed, benchtop, Wall Analysis machine, adjustable to measure cups from 33 mm to 100 mm internal diameter and up to 200 mm tall, with a measurement accuracy of 6 microns.
The Contactless Can Wall Analysis Machine uses white light confocal sensors to precisely measure the wall thickness of beverage Cans with unprecedented detail and accuracy.
The Can is measured internally and externally to the nanometer at any height and rotation along the vertical Can wall building up rings of data at user-specified intervals and heights. The ring thickness data are interpolated to produce wall thickness measurements.
Intended applications for the machine include top wall angle measurement, bodymaker misalignments, crosshatch wear detection, defect detection, Can design R&D, and many more.
Learn More About Earing Measurement
Watch the video: Learn more about earing test measurement and interpretation of results:
- How is an Earing profile measured
- What can I learn about metal quality from an Earing profile
- How are Earing profiles classified
- Recorded and ideal Earing profiles
- Tooling influences on providing an accurate Earing profile results
- Hidden pitfalls in Earing measurement
Automatic Cupping and Earing Measurement Machine
Watch the video: Showing the high-speed performance of the Automatic Cupping and Earing Measurement Machine, all within 20 seconds:
- Aluminium sample scanning with barcode and sample thickness measurement reader
- Deep drawing of the earing cup
- Final Earing profile measurement
- Earing Analysis and Results
Contactless Can Wall Analysis Machine
Watch the video: Learn more about the Contactless Can Wall Analysis Machine:
- Wall thickness analysed according to user-specified heights
- Top wall angle measurement
- Crosshatch evaluation
- Analyse surface detail
- Other applications: bodymaker misalignments, defect detection, Can design R&D, and many more
Earing Measurement Software
Advanced Earing Analysis Package
The Advanced Earing Analysis package allows our customers to analyse and simultaneously compare multiple earing profiles, generated on any of Huxley Bertram Earing Measurement machines.
The software is available on a standalone PC running Windows 7 or newer OS.