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2. P-38 can opener - Wikipedia

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   A Vietnam War-era P-38 can opener, with a U.S. penny shown for size comparison.. The P-38 (larger variant known as the P-51) is a small can opener that was issued with canned United States military rations from its introduction in 1942 to the end of canned ration issuance in the 1980s. [1]

3. Can opener - Wikipedia

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   A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were not patented until 1855 in England and 1858 in the United States. These early ...

4. Ezra Warner (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The instruction on those cans read "Cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer." [1] [2] The bayonet part of Ezra Warner's can opener was pressed into the can, and a metal guard kept it from penetrating too far into the can. The other part was the sickle, which was forced into the can and sawed around the edge. [3]

5. William Lyman (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The top of the can was cut by pressing the cutting wheel into the can near the edge and rotating it along the can's rim. [5] The need to pierce the can first was a nuisance, and this can opener design has not survived. In 1925, a modern-style opener, equipped with an additional serrated wheel, was invented to improve Lyman's design. [3]

6. Beverage opener - Wikipedia

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   A beverage opener (also known as a multi-opener) is a device used to open beverage cans, plastic bottles or glass bottles, which are the three most common beverage containers. [ 1 ] Types

7. Talk:Can opener - Wikipedia

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   Star / Star Can Opener Co., San Francisco, CA / can opener / patent 1360256 Nov 30 1920 & 1528178 Mar 3 1925 & 1598841 Sep 7 1926 Edwin Anderson / see also Turner & Semour / The same can opener was also manufactured by Turner & Seymour Co. as the “STAR” brand can opener, stamped with all three of the above patent numbers.