Prize-containing beverage can
CA 2226992 C · Owner: The Coca-Cola Company · Inventors: Troska, Georg
Overview
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A container assembly for housing liquid products and a prize therein which may be distributed with non-prize bearing containers comprising: a can for containing the liquid product in an interior chamber thereof and a prize-, holding subassembly positioned within the interior chamber for retaining a prize therein. The prize holding subassembly includes a tether (60) for supporting the prize assembly. The tether includes a hair-pin shaped spring portion (66) defining legs, and foot portions (64 68) extending from those , legs. A proximal end of the tether on one of the foot portions engages a gate (46) on the underside of the can closure and compresses the spring portion , into a cocked …
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- Filed July 11, 1996 and granted September 17, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 11, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 11, 2018.
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