Beverage can cap and novelty item
AssigneePrintmark Industries, Icn.
InventorAlexander Sloot
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Abstract
A beverage can cap for attachment to a beverage can having a top wall surrounded by a peripheral and circular lip and a tab opener attached to the top wall is provided. The beverage can cap includes an upper layer sized and shaped to fit within the peripheral and circular lip of the beverage can, the upper layer having a substantially circular periphery, and a lower layer having an arc-shaped outer periphery which corresponds to a portion of the substantially circular periphery of the upper layer. A pocket is defined by the upper layer and the lower layer, which pocket is adapted to receive the tab opener of the beverage can when the beverage can cap is installed on the can and the lower layer is disposed between the tab opener and the top wall of the beverage can.
Claims37
A beverage can cap for attachment to a beverage can having a top wall surrounded by a peripheral and circular lip and a tab opener attached to the top wall, said beverage can cap comprising:
- an upper layer sized and shaped to fit within the peripheral and circular lip of the beverage can, said upper layer having a substantially circular periphery;
- a lower layer having an arc-shaped outer periphery which corresponds to a portion of the substantially circular periphery of said upper layer, the periphery of said lower layer being bonded to the periphery of said upper layer along a continuous seal which passes through at least 180 continuous degrees of the circle defined by the substantially circular periphery of said upper layer;
- a pocket defined by said upper layer and said lower layer;
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- wherein said pocket is adapted to receive the tab opener of the beverage can when said beverage can cap is installed on the can and said lower layer is disposed between the tab opener and the top wall of the beverage can.
A beverage can cap for attachment to a beverage can having a top wall surrounded by a peripheral and circular lip and a tab opener attached to the top wall, said beverage can cap comprising:
- an upper layer sized and shaped to fit within the peripheral and circular lip of the beverage can, said upper layer having a substantially circular periphery;
- an intermediate layer having a substantially circular periphery bonded to the substantially circular periphery of said upper layer, said intermediate layer being provided with stamped weakened portions which are adapted to be manipulated by a user to create at least one mechanism for adapting said beverage can cap to be used as a novelty item;
- a lower layer having an arc-shaped outer periphery which corresponds to a portion of the substantially circular periphery of said intermediate layer, the periphery of said lower layer being bonded to the periphery of said intermediate layer;
- a pocket defined by said intermediate layer and said lower layer;
- and wherein said pocket is adapted to receive the tab opener of the beverage can when said beverage can cap is installed on the can and said lower layer is disposed between the tab opener and the top wall of the beverage can.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.