Patent ID: 6722272
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
A process for manufacturing a nonembossed lid (10) of a substrate material (5), said process comprising depositing on an inward facing side of said substrate material (5) by using a printing process an inward facing sealing layer (8, 9), said substrate material (5) is a foil or multilayer laminate, having, with respect to a container (1) on which the lid (10) is employed, said inward facing sealing layer (8,9) for closing the container (1) which has a shoulder region (4), the inward facing side of the substrate material (5) has the sealing layer (8,9) in the form of a printed image and the printed image of the sealing layer (8,9) corresponds with the shoulder region (4) of the container (1), the substrate (5) has on the inward facing side a printed image (11) with a high negative fraction and the printed image (11) is from 2 to 20 &mgr;m thick, the printed image (11) is for the purpose of separating lids from each other when stacked and allowing the lids to be drawn reliably from the stack of lids, and depositing printing (6) on an outside facing surface of said substrate material (5).