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US 5,292,022 AGranted
Closure for beverages metal containers
OwnerArsenio G. Blancoinventor
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Abstract
A closure of a metallic container for beverages has at an opening thereof to be cleared, a pulling ring which, as it is pulled from the can, tears off a stamped surface defining that opening. The closure further includes a protective sheet applied to the stamped surface. The protective sheet is removed after pulling the ring, thereby preventing contamination by noxious substances the interior of the container upon opening.
Claims1
A closure for metallic beverage containing containers, the closure comprising an end wall, a ring connected to a tearable portion for exposing an opening in the end wall when said portion is torn upon pulling of said ring;
- and a hygienic protective sheet which is located below said ring and which entirely covers said end wall, said hygienic protective sheet including a planar portion and a hoop portion extending along a perimeter thereof, said hoop portion having a weak area and being tautly preformed such that, upon being severed at said weak area when said ring is pulled, said hoop portion is divided into two halves which roll themselves up dragging along said planar portion, said planar portion including an auxiliary rib radially extending over said tearing portion from said weak area to said ring and a weak line extending parallel to and close to said auxiliary rib between said weak area and said ring to ensure severance and division of said hoop portion and said planar portion along with said hoop portion into two halves which roll up exposing said opening and a hygienically clean area around said opening as said ring is pulled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.