Nippon Steel Corporation

501 Nippon Steel Corporation

Shoji Nosaka

Hidekuni Murakami

Hiroshi Nishida

Masayoshi Suehiro

Tsuyoshi Kawano

Shinji Tanimoto

Hidenobu Anami

A can lid made of a metal sheet having a resin coating on at least one surface thereof and superior in can openability, having an outer peripheral flat portion and an inner peripheral flat portion straddling a score line further having an outer bead and inner bead at the sides of the outer peripheral flat portion and the inner peripheral flat portion opposite to the score line, and having a cross-section where the score line becomes gradually thinner from the thicknesses of the outer peripheral flat portion and the inner peripheral flat portion and a process for forming the same.

Easy-open can lid superior in can openability and process for production thereof

A non-vent type fully openable easy-opening end has a principal score around the periphery of the end, and a pair of beads which run in a tearing direction. The pair of beads is formed symmetrically at both sides of a tab securing portion of the end which is in the vicinity of the tab securing score. A pair of second beads may also be formed on the periphery of a removable portion of the end which is defined by the principal score in such a manner that they run along the principal score. The second beads are located symmetrically on both sides of the tab securing portion. A straight line l that connects the forward end of the tab securing portion and the starting end of each of the first beads or the starting end of each of the second beads is inclined with respect to the tearing direction at an angle ranging between 45 degrees and 85 degrees. A distance a between the finishing ends of the first beads and the center of the tab securing portion in the tearing direction is equivalent to or larger than the diameter of the tab securing portion and is not less than 4 mm.

Non-vent type fully openable easy-opening end

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Shoji Nosaka