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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Belvac Production Machinery, Inc., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Carlos Andres Mejia-Quinchia, Forest, VA (US);
Erika Sheaffer Love, Lynchburg, VA (US);
BELVAC PRODUCTION MACHINERY, INC., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for retaining an outsert on a neck. The method includes providing a neck with a sidewall for a metal body. The method further includes forming an outward curl in the metal sidewall. The method further includes sliding a plastic outsert down onto the neck. The plastic outsert has a first inner diameter at a first end that is smaller than a diameter of the neck encompassing the outward curl. The outward curl is configured to flex as the plastic outsert slides down onto the neck to accommodate the first end of the plastic outsert passing over the outward curl. The method further includes retaining the plastic outsert on the neck between a first interference fit at a first interface of the metal sidewall and the plastic outsert and at a second interference fit between a top edge of the plastic outsert and the outward curl.