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US 4,397,403 AGranted
Container opening apparatus with captured tab
AssigneeGuimarin Container Co., Incorporated
InventorHenry L. Guimarin
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Abstract
Disclosed is a container end with an integral opening apparatus which includes pull means for tearing a tab defined by a score line from the container end to form an opening. The score line is substantially U-shaped and the pull means is attached on the tab near the base of the U. Since the score line is U-shaped, the top of the U which defines one end of the tab is not severed from the container, thus the tab may be folded over the edge of the container end and maintained in a captured position out of the way of the user.
Claims11
A container end with integral opening means comprising:
- (a) a substantially flat and substantially circular disc adapted to form the end of a container;
- (b) a weakening score with spaced apart ends formed in said disc defining a partially removeable elongated tab having a first end and a second end and extending across the face of said disc with the first end of said tab positioned relatively near one edge of said disc and the second end of said tab positioned substantially diametrically disposed from said first end and between the geometric center of said disc and the opposite edge, the space between said spaced apart ends of said score defining said second end;
- (c) pull means comprising an elongated body with a substantially flat edge portion extending therefrom;
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- (d) attachment means securing said substantially flat edge portion of said pull means to said elongated tab near said first end thereof permitting said substantially flat edge portion of said pull means to rotate about said attachment means in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of said substantially circular disc;
- whereby said pull means may be rotated to a position between said attachment means and the edge of said disc nearest said first end of said tab to draw said first end outwardly from said container to a position adjacent the opposite edge of said disc.
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