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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
May. 03, 2016
Imv Innovation Marketing Und Vertriebs Gmbh, Cologne, DE;
Thomas Hundeloh, Bad Marienberg, DE;
Andreas Umbreit-Pluta, Schwulper, DE;
Matthias Nagel, Thum, DE;
IMV INNOVATION MARKETING UND VERTRIEBS GMBH, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a lid consisting of metal for a beverage can, which lid is designed to be permanently connected to a can body and has a lid panel in which a rivet for a grip tab is formed and in which a predetermined breaking line defining a breaking-open area is impressed, along which line an opening in the lid panel can be opened by the grip tab, wherein a rivet base, which has resulted from a formation of the rivet, is present around the rivet, within which base the metal of the lid is thinner and/or more brittle than in adjoining regions of the lid panel.