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US 4,789,076 AGranted
Head seam for a pail
AssigneeThe International Paint Company Limited
InventorsJoseph H. Jewitt, Jack Harley
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AssigneeThe International Paint Company Limited
InventorsJoseph H. Jewitt, Jack Harley
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The rim of a pail body is provided with a compound curl for reception of a lid. The compound curl comprises an upper region extending away from the wall of the pail body on its outside, a lower region extending from the outer periphery of the said upper region towards the wall of the pail body and a rim edge part which extends from the inner periphery of the said lower region away from the wall of the pail body and is intermediate the said upper and lower regions whereby a lid applied over the rim with the central part thereof located within said rim can be clamped onto the said compound curl to form a seam therewith. The said lower region and the said rim edge part constitute a smaller pre-curl within the compound curl, the rim edge being spaced below the said upper region so that in clamping on the lid, a region of the said rim edge part is brought into supporting engagement with the said upper region. Desirably the wall has three spaced-apart circumferential beads formed therein, the bead closest to the compound curl being shallower than a closely spaced pair of larger beads.
A pail having a lid closing the pail, the pail having a side wall and a rim, said rim having a compound curl comprising an upper region extending away from the outside of the pail wall, a lower region extending from the outer periphery of the upper region towards the pail wall and a rim edge part intermediate said upper and lower regions and extending from the inner periphery of said lower region away from the pail wall and said lid having a channel and a plurality of downwardly extending flanges on its periphery, the compound curl of the rim of the pail wall being seated in the channel of the lid and the flanges being deformed around the compound curl to maintain the channel in close contact with part of said lower region and with the wall of the pail body, each flange and the adjacent part of the channel lying at an acute angle to one another and between the compound curl and the pail wall.
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