Abstract: An apparatus for the internal coating of a two-piece can body with a powder. Two-piece can bodies include a body and an end. A stream of powder is directed towards the corner between the end and the body in a circular path by rotating either the can body or the powder dispenser so as to coat the end of the can body. A recovery tube is provided to draw the powder rearwardly out of the can body away from the end in a generally cylindrical path adjacent the interior wall of the body so as to coat the body with the powder. The powder is electrostatically charged so as to adhere to the can body until such time as the powder may be suitably cured.

Abstract: This relates to an easy opening container wherein a displaceable panel portion is defined by a line of weakness and has attached thereto an opening device. Most particularly, the opening device is formed of a length of flexible material, such as a tape, which is folded upon itself and has a lower leg bonded to the displaceable panel portion. The outer leg, which functions as a pull element, has secured thereto an opening element which extends beyond the fold and has a nose for effecting an axially inwardly directed opening force on the displaceable panel portion.

Abstract: A display package which is formed of a pair of serving packages each including a bowl-like container with a removable cover. The covers are interlocked with the containers and require outward radial expansion for removal. The serving packages are arranged with the covers in face-to-face engagement and are joined together by a circumferential band shrunk in place and interlocked behind the covers. A separately formed hook of the bent wire type has a loop receiving the band and serves as hanging means for the package.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating the inside of tubular members, more specifically can bodies, which are open at opposite ends. The apparatus includes a supply tube and a return tube which are spaced apart to have received therebetween the tubular member to be coated. In each of the supply tube and the return tube there is positioned a corona electrode, the corona electrodes being in alignment wherein powder supplied to the interior of the tubular member is both initially charged as it passes through the supply tube and is further charged within the tubular member by an electrical field which exists between the two corona electrodes and the tubular member.

Abstract: An integrated double serving package with hanger wherein a pair of bowl-like containers having removable covers are held together in a display package by a retaining sleeve which is of a polygonal cross section and including flat panels having notches therein receiving the projections of the containers and covers. The sleeve has end portions secured together by a projecting hanger portion whereby the package may be readily hung from a hook or the like for display purposes.

Abstract: A container which may be formed of sheet material in a conventional manner of forming cans and the like and wherein the container is suitable for sealing under a vacuum and is readily openable and reclosable in the manner of a Mason jar. The container includes a body defining a peripheral sealing cavity in which a formed in situ gasket is permanently retained.