Receptacles – Closures – With closure opening arrangements for means
Patent
1978-11-06
1980-04-29
Hall, George T.
Receptacles
Closures
With closure opening arrangements for means
220270, 220271, 220277, B65D 4132
Patent
active
042001986
ABSTRACT:
An opener for a metal can having cylindrical sidewalls and a top panel, the panel including a pouring tab scored therein, an elongated opener strip having one end attached to the inner surface of the pad at a point adjacent the can sidewall and the other end attached to the inner surface of the top panel at a point adjacent the can sidewall diametrical of the tab, a pop hole scored in the top panel adjacent the center and directly over the opening strip, an opener stick normally lying parallel and contiguous with the can top panel, the opener stick having the inner end affixed to the pop hole tab and the pop hole tab being affixed to the opener strip intermediate its ends so that when the opener stick is pivoted upwardly, the pop hole tab is torn from the panel, providing an open aperture in the panel, following which the opener stick may be downwardly displaced into the can causing the opener strip to apply force on the pouring tab to tear at least portions of the periphery of the tab from the panel exposing a pouring opening.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4073403 (1978-02-01), Orange
patent: 4094435 (1978-06-01), Kennedy
Chinquapin Corporation
Hall George T.
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