MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617004485 A) filed by Intellectual Capital Management Llc, Whitefish, U.S.A., on Jan. 16, for 'pull tab with raised lift end and associated method.'
Inventor(s) include Everts, Mitchell; and Hogenkamp, Andrew.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A progressive die manufacturing method for producing pull tabs with raised lift ends for beverage containers utilizes an ear carry process, producing tab blanks from a carrier sheet fixed by carrier strips at attachment points. At a tab station, blanks are formed into pull tabs with spec...