Patent ID: 8765241

Claim:
An article, comprising: a metal beverage can having a body portion and an end portion, wherein the end portion is an aluminum beverage can end coated on an interior surface with a coating obtained from a coating composition comprising: between about 60 and 95 weight percent of one or more polyester resins, based on solids content of the coating composition, wherein at least one polyester resin has a Tg of less than about 50° C.; and an oxirane-functional acrylic resin, wherein the acrylic resin is present in an amount up to about 20% by weight of the coating composition, based upon the total resin solids in the coating composition; wherein the coating composition is substantially free of mobile BPA and aromatic glycidyl ether compounds; and wherein the coating on the interior surface of the beverage can end passes less than 10 milliamps of current while being exposed for 4 seconds to an electrolyte solution containing 1% by weight of NaCl dissolved in deionized water.