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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Rexam Beverage Can Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey L. Lewis, Trussville, AL (US);
Assignee:
REXAM BEVERAGE CAN COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09F 3/00 (2006.01); B65D 17/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/24 (2006.01); B23K 26/364 (2014.01); B44C 1/22 (2006.01); B65D 17/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 17/165 (2013.01); B23K 26/364 (2015.10); B41M 5/24 (2013.01); B44C 1/228 (2013.01); B65D 17/4012 (2018.01); B65D 2517/0014 (2013.01); B65D 2517/0053 (2013.01); B65D 2517/0092 (2013.01);
Abstract
A decorated tab for a beverage container has a lift end, a nose end, and central webbing. An enclosed portion of the central webbing has a coating. A symbol is located on the enclosed region which is created by selective removal of the coating by a laser ablation. The symbol has a boundary profile defining a perimeter of the symbol generated by a continuous, uninterrupted vectorized laser dot pattern defining regions of ablated coating. The symbol has an interior portion generated by a plurality of pulsed rasterized laser dots defining further regions of ablated coating.