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• US 3,303,959 A
• Filed: 11/02/1964
• Issued: 02/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omar L. Brown
• Original Assignee: Omar L. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Omar L.
• Application Number:
  US04/408,239
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• US Class Current: 220/273
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 17/28 at lines or points of weakness
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 17/36 adapted for engagement with opening tools, e.g. slotted keys attachment of opening tools, e.g. slotted keys, to containers B65D17/52
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 17/4012 for opening partially by means of a tearing tab

Claims

1. IN A CONTAINER STRUCTURE HAVING A WALL THE COMBINATION OF:

TEAR LINE MEANS FORMING A TEAR STRIP IN THE WALL OF THE CONTAINER AND HAVING A LEADING END;

A TAB HAVING A LEVER PORTION AND AN END PORTION, SAID LEVER PORTION DEFINING A FULCRUM END ADJACENT SAID END PORTION AND A HANDLE PORTION;

MEANS FOR SECURING SAID END PORTION OF SAID TAB TO SAID TEAR STRIP WITH SAID HANDLE PORTION EXTENDING GENERALLY ALONG THE CONTAINER WALL AND SAID FULCRUM END SPACED FROM THE CONTAINER WALL;

AND SAID TAB BEING PLIABLE AT THE JUNCTURE OF SAID LEVER AND SAID END PORTION TO ALLOW A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF HINGED MOVEMENT OF SAID FULCRUM END AND SAID HANDLE PORTION TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CONTAINER WALL, RESPECTIVELY, WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY STRESSING SAID TEAR