Patent · US Expired

Easy-open can lid

US4762245A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 18, 1987
Grant dateAug 9, 1988
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 18, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/214
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A score line defining a portion to be opened is formed on a chromated surface treated steel plate coated with an epoxy type primer so that the score line is cut to the middle of the steel plate in the thickness direction thereof, and an opening tab is bonded and secured to the portion to be opened of the steel plate through a bonding fulcrum composed of a thermoplastic adhesive consisting of amide recurring units and/or ester recurring units so that the push-tearing top end of the opening tab is located on the score line.

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