Promotional can end
AssigneeCrown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.
InventorsJohn Ruemer, Jr., Vinson S. Potts
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Abstract
An improved can end of the type openable without tools by a consumer moving a tab to rupture a can end along a score line, which features promotional material concealed beneath the tab until the tab is pivoted so as to open the can, is disclosed.
Claims6
In a can end of the type comprising a fixed portion and an openable portion defined by a score line and adapted to be pivotable about a hinge portion by pressure exerted by a tab member pivotable about a hinged section, the improvement which comprises promotional printed matter printed on said end and concealed under said tab until said tab is pivoted so as to open said can.
A can end assembly comprising an end portion and a tab, said tab being affixed to said end portion by means permitting said tab to pivot to exert a force on an openable section of said end portion, promotional material being printed on said end portion under said tab, such that said tab conceals said promotional material until said tab is pivoted to open said openable section of said end portion.
As a game piece for the playing of a game in which a plurality of like pieces each having indicia printed thereon are collected as an object of the game, the indicia being concealed by the game piece until goods to which the game pieces is attached are purchased, a can end assembly comprising an end portion and a tab, said tab being affixed to said end portion by means permitting said tab to pivot to exert a force on an openable section of said end portion, indicia being printed on said end portion under said tab, such that said tab conceals said indicia until said tab is pivoted to open said openable section of said end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.