Patent ID: 7168586

Claim:
An easy-opening can end comprising an end panel, a score line in said end panel definding an openable panel portion; a pull tab defined by a nose, a handle and a medial portion between said nose and handle; means for securing said medial portion to said end panel with said nose adjacent said score line, said end panel including a convexly upwardly projecting protrusion underlying and contiguous said handle, and means definded by the material of said protrusion of elastically deforming said convexly upwardly projecting protrusion to an upwardly concavely opening and downwardly projecting protrusion upon the application of a downwardly directed manually applied force to said convexly upwardly projecting protrusion to form a gap between said handle and said elastically deformed upwardly concavely opening protrusion incident to severing said score line by imparting a lifting force to said handle.