Patent ID: 6308853
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
A nonembossed lid (10) of a substrate material (5) where the substrate material is a foil or multilayer laminate, having, with respect to a container (1) on which the lid (10) is employed, printing (6) on the outside and an inward facing sealing layer (8, 9) for closing the container (1) which has a shoulder region (4), where 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 corresponds with the shoulder region (4) of the container (1), the lid (10) has on the inward and/or outward facing side a printed image (11) with a large negative fraction and the printed image (11) with a large negative fraction and the printed image (11) is from 2 to 20 .mu.m thick where the printed image is for the purpose of separating lids from each other when stacked and allowing the lids to be drawn reliably from a stack of lids.