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US 8,608,006 B2Granted
Bottle crown
AssigneeWorld Bottling Cap, LLC
InventorAbe Frishman
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Abstract
A crown for a bottle or other container, the crown comprised of a pull tab ring and a pull tab secured to the crown by a rivet and one or more cut lines between the rivet and the rim of the crown. The crown may be formed from tinplate with a hardness of T4 as measured by the Rockwell 30T Hardness Scale so that the crown may be opened and removed from the container the a force of approximately 2.5 Kg.
Claims15
A crown cap for a bottle opening, the crown cap comprising:
- a crown cap body comprising:
- a top portion having a center;
- a skirt surrounding the top portion, the skirt having angels, wherein the angels terminate at a lower edge defined in a first horizontal plane;
- an opener assembly mounted to the top portion;
- a first scoring line extending from the center of the top portion to the lower edge of the skirt in a continuous radial direction;
- and
- a second scoring line comprising:
- an upper radial segment extending in a substantially linear direction from the center of the top portion to the skirt along a radial axis;
- and,
- a lower annular segment extending circumferentially along the skirt in an annular direction and extending from a terminus of the upper radial segment, the lower annular segment defined in a second horizontal plane equidistant to the first horizontal plane associated with the lower edge of the skirt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.