Sheet metal blank for producing the body of cans

US4763807A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fael S.A. · CH

Inventors

• Peter Schreiber · Jena, DE
• Gianni Padovan · La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 1986
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1988
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D85/10
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A can body made of a sheet metal blank has a tear strip extending between opposite ends of the blank and into a tongue extending from one blank edge. An overlapping portion at overlapping ends of the blank is completely welded, and the tongue width is greater than the strip width to assure tendency of rupture of the can body from opposite side edges of the tongue toward the strip to avoid premature breaking of the strip.