Carnaudmetalbox Plc

Odin Developments Limited

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.

Cmb Foodcan Plc

Andrew P Pavely

David M White

Peter S Foskett

Roy J Marr

Paul Robert Dunwoody

Philip Alan Marriott

Sudesh Kumar Nayar

Timothy James Pitcher

Eric Charles Hopson

Ian Flude

Trevor John Colby

Lodewyk Johannes Claessen

Robert John Ashley

Simon Murray

A reclosable metal container in the style of a bottle-shaped can has a conventional can body of steel or aluminum to which a metal neck component is seamed. A sleeve of plastics fits over the neck component and a detent inside the sleeve clips it onto the seam. The upper edge of the sleeve is fixed in place by a curl on the upper edge of the neck component. By using a separate neck component and hiding the seam under a sleeve, conventional sizes and material gauges can be used for the can body. Thicker material may be used for the neck component in order to withstand necking forces. Threads for closing the container may be provided either on the sleeve or, in an embodiment where the sleeve is simply used to cover the seam, on a cylindrical part of the neck component itself.

Reclosable metal container

Packaging method and apparatus

A can end (1) having an openable portion (14) defined by a score line (13), has a ring pull defining an aperture in which is retained a token (16) which may be removed as proof of purchase to qualify the purchaser for a prize or other premium offer. The token (16) is preferably made from a plastics material which is retained by clinching of peripheral material of the ring pull, and may be marked with indicia.

Containers

A combined pull tab and token is disclosed in which the token includes a body and the pull tab includes a clinched peripheral curl portion. The pull tab is adapted to be attached to a container wall, and a portion of the token is engaged within the clinched peripheral curl portion of the pull tab.

Container

Method of retaining a token in a ring pull or lever

Growing community of inventors

Lower Blunsdon, United Kingdom

Andrew P Pavely