Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Ichiro Hori

Kikuo Matsuoka

Kazumi Hirota

Tadahiko Katsura

Yotaro Tsutsumi

Senji Itoh

Senji Ito

Toshihiko Hayashi

Disclosed is an easily openable heat seal lid for sealing a vessel proper by forming a heat-sealed portion between the lid and the vessel proper, which comprises a laminate comprising at least an inner face member composed of a thermoplastic resin and a metal foil, wherein scores defining a portion to be opened are formed on the side inner than the portion to be heat-sealed so that the scores extend to the midway of the thickness direction of the metal foil, an opening tab is formed on the portion of the lid to be opened through a bonding fulcrum portion composed of a thermoplastic resin hot adhesive so that the push-tearing top end of the opening tab is located on the scores, and the peel strength between the opening tab and the lid in said bonding portion is at least 0.4 Kg/5 mm.

Easily-openable heat seal lid

Disclosed is an easily openable heat seal lid for sealing a vessel proper by forming a heat-sealed portion between the lid and the vessel proper, which comprises a laminate comprising at least an inner face member composed of a thermoplastic resin and a metal foil, wherein scores defining a portion to be opened are formed on the side inner than the portion to be heat-sealed so that the scores extend to the midway of the thickness direction of the metal foil, and said inner face member comprises at least one heat-sealable thermoplastic resin layer having an adhesion strength of at least 800 g/15 mm to the metal foil, a tear strength lower than 3.0 kg and a tensile modulus of at least 300 kg/cm.sup.2. In this heat seal lid, the resin layer can be broken sharply along the scores and opening can be accomplished very easily.

There are disclosed a process and apparatus for producing sequentially a hermetically sealed container which comprise cutting a blank, forming a container body from the blank by a drawing method, filling a content in the container body and hermetically sealing the container body with a lid member, and devices for realizing these operations. The blank which is cut at a blanking station is placed on a movable die, and drawn to a container body at a drawing station. The container body engaged with the movable die is filled with a content at a filling station, and then hermetically sealed with a lid member at a sealing station. This process and apparatus are especially suitable for a blank made of a flexible material.

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Yokohama, Japan

Ichiro Hori