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US 8,025,171 B2Granted
Fuel tin
AssigneeFirestar AG
InventorsMichele Cassol, Beat A. Knabenhans, Walter Rufener
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Abstract
The invention relates to a fuel paste tin, comprising a dished tin body (1) and a sealing lid (3), fixed to the tin body (1) with two pre-scored lines (6), along which a partial lid section (7) may be removed from the sealing lid (3) by breaking a material connection to generate a precisely defined opening (4, 10, 11) in the sealing lid (3). The invention permits the production of fuel paste tins with may be employed directly as paste burners with a desired burn capacity and burn duration, which are economic to produce and cause little litter.
Claims25
A fuel can, comprising:
- a can body containing a fuel filling, the can body including a flange rim;
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- a cover lid which is formed by a sealing foil, the sealing foil including
- a sealing layer sealed to the flange rim of the can body thereby permanently sealing the cover lid to the can body,
- two metal foils, and
- a synthetic material layer located between the metal foils, the two metal foils and the synthetic material layer being provided above the sealing layer;
- wherein the cover lid is configured such at least one opening in the cover lid is producable by a complete or partial severing or detaching of one or more lid portion elements of the sealing foil, each lid portion element including the sealing layer, the synthetic material layer, and the two metal foil layers, along one or several material bonded predetermined breaking locations,
- wherein, an upper metal foil of the two metal foils is weakened or interrupted along the predetermined breaking locations, and a lower metal foil of the two metal foils, which faces the can body, and the sealing layer are continuous but configured to break in the area of the predetermined breaking locations.
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