Apparatus for filling and shaking a can

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY INJECTING PRESSURIZED PROPELLANT INTO AND SHAKING CANS, SAID MACHINE COMPRISING: A ROTARY FRAME, FRAME DRIVE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID FRAME FOR EFFECTING ROTATION THEREOF, A PLURALITY OF RODS CARRIED BY SAID FRAME IN PARALLELISM WITH AND CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED ABOUT THE AXIS OF FRAME ROTATION, SAID RODS BEING MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME FOR ROTATION THEREWITH AND LONGITUDINAL RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO SAID FRAME, A PLURALITY OF CAN-RECEIVING PLATFORMS RESPECTIVELY CARRIED BY SAID RODS FOR ROTATIVE MOVEMENT THEREWITH ABOUT A CLOSED PATH THROUGH A LOADING AND UNLOADING REGION, A PLURALITY OF ROTARY ECCENTRIC DRIVES ON SAID FRAME AND EACH CONNECTED TO A RESPECTIVE ROD FOR EFFECTING LONGITUDINAL VIBRATORY RECIPROCATION THEREOF DURING ROTATION WITH SAID FRAME, ECCENTRIC-DRIVE ACTAUTING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID ECCENTRIC DRIVES TO DISABLE EACH ECCENTRIC DRIVE DURING MOVEMENT OF ITS ASSOCIATED PLATFORM THROUGH SAID LOADING AND UNLOADING REGION, A PLURALITY OF INJECTION NOZZLES EACH LOCATED ADJACENT TO A RESPECTIVE PLATFORM AND CARRIED BY THE ASSOCIATED ROD FOR ROTATION AND RECIPROCATION WITH THE ADJACENT PLATFORM TO INJECT PROPELLANT INTO A CAN ON THE ADJACENT PLATFORM DURING ITS ROTATIVE AND RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT, AND A PLURALITY OF NOZZLE-SPACING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID FRAME EACH OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO A RESPECTIVE NOZZLE TO SPACE THE LATTER FROM ITS ADJACENT PLATFORM DURING PLATFORM MOVEMENT THROUGH SAID LOADING AND UNLOADING REGION.