Abstract: A half-size sheet metal steam table tray and a lid that may be joined by a sealed double seam to the tray to form a container for packing or canning, processing, storing, shipping, distributing, heating, displaying and serving processed food products in any desired manner, and particularly for use at a steam table. The tray and lid container is desirable for institutional use to replace 105 fluid ounce capacity No. 10 cans for processed foods or frozen food containers. The tray serves as a cooking vessel suitable for heating the food product packed therein after removal of the lid and before serving. The tray becomes a serving container replacing stainless steel serving pans commonly used in volume feeding establishments.

Abstract: A sheet metal pull tab for easy opening cans of the full panel pull-out type which has a special and coordinated configuration, shape and contour of pull-ring, keyhole-shaped slot, nose and nose-forming walls which serve readily without tab failure to rupture the score line formed in a can end for removal of an end panel defined by the score line. The new pull tab structure imparts unusual overall strength to the pull tab that enables the pull tab either to provide greater strength when formed from the same gauge sheet metal or to provide the same strength when formed from lighter gauge sheet metal as compared with similar prior sheet metal pull tabs having the same outer contour; and also to provide such a pull tab structure which reduces the amount of metal, disregarding gauge, that is required to form the strong pull tab structure.