Japan Crown Cork Co Ltd.

Mitsuhiro Sakemoto

Isao Ichinose

Noboru Suzuki

A crown closure having a polyolefin liner that can be readily removed, said crown closure comprising a crown shell having a primer layer on its inner surface and a polyolefin liner applied to the inside of said crown shell, characterized in that said primer layer is a two-component priming consisting of an undercoat layer containing a polyethylene oxide and a topcoat layer containing a polyethylene oxide and at least one other compatible resin, with the provision of a printing layer of indicia at the interface between said undercoat and topcoat layers or atop said topcoat layer. Aforesaid crown closure can be prepared by providing at one face of a metal stock sheet a primer undercoat layer containing a polyethylene oxide, printing indicia thereon, providing atop said undercoat layer a primer topcoat layer containing a polyethylene oxide and at least one other compatible resin, and thereafter forming said metal stock sheet into crown shells in such a manner that said coating layers come to the inside of the shells followed by depositing a polyolefin mass in said shells and molding same into the form of liners.

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Hiratsuka, Japan

Mitsuhiro Sakemoto