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Double-ended openers beverage can

Patent Summary Sheet

Instructions:
In your engineering notebook or on the attached form document each patent you find related
to the major project problem you have identified. Your instructor may want you to print or
partially print the related patent.
Source (APA format):
Patent US20100000997 - Double-ended openers beverage can. (n.d.). Retrieved
February 24, 2015, from https://www.google.com/patents/US20100000997?
dq=can&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6bzsVIfeHsWegwS5nYCwBw&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ
Patent Number:
US20100000997 A1
Patent Summary:
The first structure of a can, according to the present invention, is a can with two spouts each
at opposite ends of can which are opened during the process of drinking beer. This allows the
user to chug-a-lug the beer. In simple terms the user's throat opens up and the beer is poured
in as it would in an open pipe. The normal swallowing mechanism is not used. In a preferred
embodiment the can is opened by lifting and pulling a pull-ring fixed on a top wall of the can
with a rivet to bend a sealing tongue portion toward the inside of the can. The user then
places the opening against her mouth, inverts the can and opens the opposite end of the can
by pulling a pull-ring fixed on a bottom wall of the can with a rivet to bend a sealing tongue
portion toward the inside of the can. The beer rapidly pours out of the can into the user's
throat.
Patent Critique:
The patent improves the original design because now with the double ended can you can
drink twice as fast and pour your drink twice as fast. Also the can be recycled as well. Some
bad attributes would have to drink it all at the same time if you open both of them. Also the
can can spew from both ends if it was dropped.

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