Crushable beverage can
AssigneesYoshio Usui, Yuko Ishii
InventorYoshio Usui
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Abstract
A beverage can that is capable of crushing easily in the axial direction is provided. The beverage can is designed to contain a beverage and has a roughly circular cylindrical shape with, at a prescribed portion on one end surface thereof, an operational portion for forming a beverage-input port. A side wall of the can has a bellows-like structure provided with score lines.
Claims6
A crushable can for sealing in a substance, wherein a side wall of said can is provided with a bellows-like profile comprising outwardly extending ridges with outward ridge crests, said ridges being connected by inwardly extending ridges with inward ridge crests, said side wall having exterior and interior surfaces, score lines being provided on said side wall exterior surfaces of the outward ridge crests and on said side wall interior surfaces of the inward ridge crests.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.