Nippon Steel Corporation

Kiyonori Nakamura

Yashichi Oyagi

Hiroshi Nishida

Keiji Taniuchi

A process for productive an easy-open can lid made of a resin laminated metal sheet comprising laminating a metal sheet or surface-treated metal sheet on one or both surfaces thereof with a crystalline saturated polyester resin film having a thickness of 10 to 100 &#x3bc;m, an elongation of at least 150%, a degree of crystallinity of not more than 10%, and a heat of fusion of crystalline of not less than 10 joules/g, to form a laminated metal sheet for an easy-open can, forming by a composite cold-forming method a tear-along grooves of a residual thickness of not more than &#xbd; of the thickness of the material using top and bottom dies of a die radius of 0.1 to 1.0 mm, then heat treating the crystalline saturated polyester resin layer at the portion surrounding the tear-along groove at a temperature of at least the crystallization starting temperature and less than the melting point thereof and, also, an easy-open can lid obtained by the same and a resin laminated metal sheet used for the same.

Process for production of easy-open can lid made of resin laminated metal sheet, easy-open can lid, and resin laminated metal sheet for easy-open can lid

A sheet steel easy open can lid made by a resin-laminated sheet steel and not requiring repair coating of the inner and outer surfaces thereof, wherein use is made of a sheet steel laminated with a resin such as polyester and a tear-along groove, having as its main constituent element at the peripheral edge of the opening piece a thin portion having the specified minimum thickness is formed by composite cold-forming. The part or substantially all of this can lid can be easily opened by hand.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyonori Nakamura