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The early pull-tabs detached easily. In 1976, the Journal of the American Medical Association noted cases of children ingesting pull-tabs that had broken off and dropped into the can. [32] Full-top pull-tabs were also used in some oil cans and are currently used in some soup, pet food, tennis ball, nuts, and other cans.
In 1959, while at a picnic with friends and family, Fraze discovered he had left his "church key" can opener at home, forcing him to use a car bumper to open cans of beer. Fraze decided to create an improved beverage opening method that would eliminate the need for a separate device, leading to his creation of the pull-tab opener.
In 1995, the BCCA sanctioned the research and publication of the reference guide United States Beer Cans. Volume I, which concentrated on cans requiring an opener (e.g., flat tops and cone tops), was released in 2000, [7] while Volume II, focusing on "self-opening" cans (e.g., pull tabs), was published in 2007. [6]
Pull tab may refer to: . Tab (beverage can), a built-in device used to open a beverage can Pull-tab, a game using gambling tickets; Battery Pull tab, A strip of Stretch-To-Release adhesive found in some modern smartphones and tablets used to adhere the Lithium Battery to the device's housing.
By pulling the "pull-tabs", the pack is opened. Hard packs can be closed again after opening, whereas soft packs cannot. Cigarette packs often contain warning messages depending on which country they are sold in. [ 2 ] In the European Union , most tobacco warnings are standardised.
The history of North American salmon canneries is exemplified by their history on the Columbia River. Within a few years each of the Hume brothers had his own cannery. By 1872, Robert Hume was operating a number of canneries, bringing in Chinese workers willing to work for low wages to do the cannery work, and having local Native Americans do ...
Crown Holdings, Inc., formerly Crown Cork & Seal Company, is an American company that makes metal beverage and food cans, metal aerosol containers, metal closures and specialty packing. Founded in 1892, it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. [ 2 ]
Lucozade is a British brand of soft drinks and energy drinks manufactured and marketed by the Japanese company Suntory.Created as "Glucozade" in the UK in 1927 by a Newcastle pharmacist, William Walker Hunter [1] (trading as W. Owen & Son), [a] it was acquired by the British pharmaceutical company Beecham's in 1938 and sold as Lucozade, an energy drink for the sick. [1]