Sonoco Products Company

Herman Rupert Markert

Wade D Fletcher

E Riley Rowe

Dwight D Grady

A system for forming and mounting end closures for peel-top containers, each closure including a peelable sealing membrane, with a folded pull tab, and a separate plastic overcap. The individual sealing membranes are cut from a continuous web and deposited directly on the open ends of cans or containers being fed in a continuing line. Each membrane is retained in properly oriented association with the corresponding container, by adhesive tacking or through a partial vacuum generated within the container, until such time as the container supported membrane is engaged by a chuck to effect a positive sealing of the membrane to the container. After a sealing of the membrane to the container, the container proceeds through a cycle wherein the tab on the membrane is laterally bent, the overcap is applied, and the container with completed end closure is discharged. Embossing of each membrane is normally selectively done so as to occur only over the area thereof inward of the peripheral portion which engages the container.

Peel-top container assembly system

A vacuum package comprising a composite container of multi-ply paper and foil construction having the contents thereof retained in a vacuum environment, a container rigidifying end cap sealing one end thereof and a flexible tearable membrane sealing the other end with a plastic overcap at the membrane end, said membrane being inwardly flexed by atmospheric pressure against the container contents for a compaction thereof and a corresponding rigidification of the vacuum pack.

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Hartsville, SC, United States of America

Herman Rupert Markert