Patent #
- Patent File Date (The master list will be chronological by this date)
Description
Note
Link
1996550
- April 13, 1933
Container Opener
The Church Key
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1996550.pdf
- December 24, 1936
Attached Opener For Containers
First tab patent?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2153344.pdf
- September 22, 1937
Beer Can
First Sta Tab?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2147004.pdf
- June 20, 1960
Rip Tag Opening Means For Sealed Containers
Early oddities
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2147004.pdf
- May 24, 1961
Container Covers With Pouring Spouts
More early ideas....
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3084835.pdf
- October 30,1962
Apparatus For Fabricating Sheet Metal Joints
Ermal Fraze patent on how to produce the zip tearoff strip.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3196817.pdf
- February 4, 1963
Closure With Tear Strip Opener
Ermal Fraze original zip top patent
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D195604.pdf
- June 11, 1963
Rivet On Metal Tab End For Attaching Pull Tab
No explanation needed....
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3391819.pdf
- September 20, 1963
Metal End Closure
Smiley Beads!!
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3225957.pdf
- December 20, 1963
Pull Tab Tear Strip
Tear strip improvements.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3244315.pdf
- February 17, 1964
Pull Tab
The U-Tab is born...
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3215306.pdf
- March 2, 1964
Container Opening Devices
More tab and tear strip improvements
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3273744.pdf
- November 2, 1964
Can Top
The dog bone....and more tab and tear strip improvements.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3303959.pdf
- December 11, 1964
Can Opener
Triple lever self opening odditity that was actually prototyped...see Self Opening Oddities forum.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3221924.pdf
- January 21, 1965
Can Top & Method Of Making Same
...more tear strip improvements.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3326405.pdf
- January 22, 1965
Can Top
.....continued dog bone & U-tab patent.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3291336.pdf
- July 6,1965
Ring Shaped Tab for Tear Strips of Containers
The ring tab is born....
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3349949.pdf
- December 31, 1970
Can End With Inseperable Tear Strip
Stylized 70's Sta-Tab
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3757989.pdf
- November 24, 1975
Easy Open Wall
The Modern Sta-Tab
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3967752.pdf
- July 2, 2008
Double Ended Openers Beerage Can
The shotgun beer can
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20100000997.pdf