When Did They Stop Making Pull Tabs On Beer Cans?

When did beer cans stop using pull tabs?

Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout ‘s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beer but were too drunk to ask. Have a question? Shoot it to [email protected] Pickle Hard Seltzer Has Us Questioning Everything Hey Kate, Recently when I was out hiking, I found an old rusty beer can with a pull-tab.

1. I’m curious how old it is.
2. When did breweries stop using these? And why? Thanks, Kenny Hey Kenny, I can’t resist a beer question that lets me do a bit of historical digging.
3. Beer and soda cans have gone through three major stages in the U.S.
4. The first earliest beer cans, which debuted in 1935, sported a flat top that required a tool called a church key to open.

This design had an obvious drawback: You needed to have the key—or some creativity—to open your can. Some breweries experimented with cone-top cans that could be opened with a standard bottle opener rather than a church key, but again, you had to have a tool on hand to get inside your can.

• The cone-top cans began to fall out of favor in the 1950s and were largely out of use by 1960.
• At this time, beer was still overwhelmingly consumed on draft or in bottles; only a quarter of beer in the U.S.
• Was consumed in cans in 1953, according to Beer Can Collecting: America’s Fastest Growing Hobby,

By 1963, a Dayton, Ohio man named Ernie Fraze thought he had a better idea. He invented and patented the pull-tab beer can, the type you found. The can had a built-in tab that eliminated the need for a tool, a big improvement in terms of convenience. But the tabs and rings had their drawbacks, too.

1. You could cut your finger badly on them.
2. The tab, which was then replaced by a ring, would sometimes pull off and leave you with this sharp jagged piece of metal sticking up,” Dr.
3. Mark Benbow, a beer-can collector and a history professor at Marymount University, tells The Takeout,
4. The very first ones were known as ‘finger rippers’.” Discarding the metal rings polluted forests and beaches—Jimmy Buffett bemoans this in his song Margaritaville (“I blew out my flip flop/Stepped on a pop top/Cut my heel had to cruise on back home”)—and posed a choking hazard,

Again, the industry innovated. In 1975, the Reynolds Metals Co. patented the StaTab, the can opening we still see on beer and soda cans today. Instead of ripping off, the tab stayed afixed to the can, saving litter and eliminating choking hazards. Benbow says they caught on quickly, and by 1980, most breweries had completely switched from pop-top cans to StaTabs.

Why did they stop making pull tab cans?

What inspired the change? – ji_jinn/Shutterstock After several reports of people swallowing the removable metal tabs and suffering from injuries, and an increase in littering, Western Digs says the ring tab design was phased out starting in 1975. (This is why these removable tabs may even be able to help identify historical sites: finding remnants of pull tab cans can help archaeologists figure out the specific time frame events took place.) The Sta-Tab — invented by Reynolds engineer Daniel F.

• Cudzik — was patented that very same year (via Slate ).
• Although these tabs can be removed with some effort, they are designed to remain on the cans after opening to be recycled instead of creating more litter.
• Unfortunately, Slate says the issue of people swallowing tabs hasn’t gone away entirely — 19 children swallowed the tabs in 2010 and had to be seen at a pediatric hospital).

Although it’s seen a few small improvements, this Sta-Tab design is still the same one often used on aluminum drink cans today. While Cudzik explained to WNYC’s Studio 360 in 2011 he doesn’t think there is much from the current design to be improved upon, who knows what the future will bring.

When did pull tabs stop UK?

Stay-on-tab – A “standard” size can opening, once common in American soft drinks. In 1958, American inventor Anthony Bajada was awarded the patent for a “Lid closure for can containers”. Bajada’s invention was the first design to keep the opening tab connected to the lid of the can, preventing it from falling into the contents of the can.

1. His patent expired in 1975 and has been directly cited in the mechanisms used by companies such as Crown Cork & Seal Co.
2. Broken Hill Proprietary Co.
3. And United States Steel Corporation,
4. Approximately one month after Bajada’s patent expired, Daniel F.
5. Cudzik, an engineer with Reynolds Metals, filed a design patent application for an “End closure for a container”.

This later became known as a “Sta-Tab”. When the Sta-Tab launched in 1975, on Falls City beer and, quickly, other drinks, there was an initial period of consumer testing and education. Cudzik later received patents for this “Easy Open Wall” ( US 3967752, issued 1976-07-06 US 3967753, issued 1976-07-06 ).

• The validity of these patents was upheld in subsequent litigation.
• The similarly designed “Easy-open ecology end” was invented by Ermal Fraze and Omar Brown.
• Its patent application was also filed in 1975, less than two months after the expiration of Bajada’s patent.
• This design, like Cudzik’s, uses a separate tab attached to the upper surface as a lever to depress a scored part of the lid, which folds underneath the top of the can and out of the way of the resulting opening, thus reducing injuries and roadside litter caused by removable tabs.

Such “retained ring-pull” cans supplanted pull-off tabs in the United Kingdom in 1989 for soft drinks and 1990 for alcoholic drinks,

When did beer cans switch to pop tops?

From Church Key to Pop Top, a Look Back at Canned Beer Until very recently, if one wanted to buy cheap beer, the solution was to visit a convenience store, reach for the bottom shelf, and buy Keystone Light or Milwaukee’s Best — always in a can. Cheap equalled can.

• But today, that dynamic has been totally turned on its head, with more than 500 craft breweries in over 40 U.S.
• States choosing to package their carefully created beers in a can.
• But how did beer end up canned in the first place? Why has canned beer been maligned for so long? And why are craft breweries now turning to cans, too? Even though canned foods date back to 1813, the first successful attempt to put beer in a can wasn’t accomplished until 1935 and was the offspring of a partnership between the American Can Company and the New Jersey-based Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.

Less than two years before that, the American Can Company managed to overcome two challenges which, until then, had precluded them from canning beer — the company successfully produced cans strong enough to hold the pressurized carbonated beverage and “keglined” the inside of the cans with a special coating that prevented any metallic taste from flavoring the beer.

1. Rueger’s Finest Beer, Krueger’s Cream Ale and Krueger’s Special Beer (all at 3.2 percent ABV — the highest legal level for beer at the time) became the first beers canned and about 4,000 were imbibed by the lucky few in Richmond, Virginia.
2. Though today beer cans are made from aluminum, those early cans were constructed out of heavy gauged steel coated with a thin layer of tin to prevent rusting.

This tinning of steel cans became so ubiquitous that even today aluminum cans are still sometimes called “tin cans.”

Facebook/ The quality of the beer sealed in a can is identical to or even slightly better than the same beer in a bottle.

In 1958, Hawaii Brewing Company became the first brewery to store beer in aluminum cans. Fast forward to today, and now virtually all beer cans in this country are made out of an aluminum alloy, a metal brewers prefer thanks to its lighter weight and resistance to rusting.

• In addition to its packaging material, the beer can’s shape also changed over time.
• Though the first cans looked like cylinders with flat tops and bottoms, producers eventually introduced cans with cone tops.
• Cone topped cans became popular with small breweries because they were easier to fill and could be sealed with the same crown caps as glass bottles, and thus did not require a brewery to purchase new canning equipment.

By the late 1950s, however, cone top cans all but disappeared. Currently almost all beer cans are the classic cylinders with flat tops and bottoms. While opening a can of beer these days is as simple as flipping a tab, original flat top beer cans required a device called a “” in order to access the brew inside.

• And printed on the can itself were instructions on how to open.
• Using the church key, an imbiber would puncture a triangular hole at the top of the beer from which he/she would drink, in addition to puncturing a smaller hole on the opposite side to let air into the can and facilitate the free flow of beer.

Cone tops, on the other hand, could be opened with the same tool used for glass bottles. Facebook/ A major beer can breakthrough came in 1962 when Iron City, a brewing company in Pittsburg, used a self-opening can. The “” can had a small flat tab riveted to the center of the can’s top that one pulled back in order to puncture the can and then tear off the removable perforated piece,

• Three years later, a pull ring replaced the flat tab (similar to how pet food cans open).
• While self-opening cans eliminated the need for a separate opening gadget, they introduced a new problem — littering.
• This environmental nuisance was fixed in 1975 when Reynolds Metals Company designed a stay-tab, which the company introduced to the public through Falls City Brewing Company in Kentucky.

This stay-tab is currently used on virtually all beer and soda cans around the world. Canned beer’s reputation as a poor quality and thus dirt cheap brew partly owes to the fact that until quite recently most canned beer fell to mass-produced lagers. Canned beer’s reputation as a poor quality and thus dirt cheap brew partly owes to the fact that until quite recently most canned beer fell to mass-produced lagers.

• The cost of buying canning equipment and the high price of steel — and then aluminum — ensured that only large breweries could afford the investment.
• Another reason for many to hold canned beer in low regard was the misconception that the can added a metallic taste to the drink — it didn’t.
• Nowadays, the stigma of canned beer is gone.

The metallic flavor myth has been thoroughly debunked and canning has become affordable even for small craft breweries. In 2002, Colorado brewery Oskar Blues boldly started canning their hoppy Dale’s Pale Ale and the canned beer revolution was on, with craft breweries touting canned beer’s more durable, more stackable, easier to stock, lighter weight, recyclable and opaque (sunlight is the mortal enemy of beer) attributes.

What’s more, canned beer can be hermetically sealed, beer in cans cools faster than bottles and it is great for outdoor activities like camping, hiking, mountain climbing and fishing. But the ultimate test for any beer drinker answers the question, “How does good beer in an aluminum can taste?” According to many a craft connoisseur, the quality of beer sealed in a can is identical to or even slightly better than the same beer in a bottle.

In fact, many people, this beer writer included, can’t tell the difference between craft beer in a can or craft beer from a bottle. : From Church Key to Pop Top, a Look Back at Canned Beer

How did you open beer cans before pull tabs?

Beverage Can History – Self Opening Can 2 minutes reading time (471 words) January 24 th will mark the 78 th birthday of the beer can so I thought I would shine a little light on one aspect of the can: the self opening top. What we take for granted today was not always so easy.

Before the early 1960’s, all beer and pop cans had to be opened by piercing two small holes in the top with a can opener. This could always present a problem to anybody caught in a place without an opener. People would then come up with all kinds of ways to get at the much desired contents inside. Screw drivers, hatchets, pocket knives, or anything sharp would be used to open the can.

This often resulted in a rather unpleasant beer or pop shower as the contents would erupt out of the improperly opened can. For one man on a picnic in 1959, this was not acceptable. His name was Ermal Fraze. After a day of opening beer cans on the sharp end of a car bumper (he left the opener at home) Mr.

Fraze theorized that there had to be a better way. Since Ermal owned the Reliable Tool and Manufacturing Co. in Dayton Ohio, he found some time to work on the project. Others had tried to develop a pull tab can without success but Ermal was unfazed. Fraze concentrated on using a rivet connected to a lever at the center of the top of the can.

This was attached to a strip of pre-scored aluminum. The lever would detach the pre-scored area and then it could be pulled away for a nice clean opening. Early versions were lawsuits waiting to happen, as the edges were very sharp and the tabs often broke before the tab pulled completely off.

Many people finally gave up and punched the can opener holes into the tab top area instead. Fraze sold his patented idea to Alcoa in the early Sixties. By 1963, the tab top was ready to market and the first beer in a pull tab can was Iron City Beer by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, an innovator in new packaging ideas.

By 1965, 75% of all breweries were using a pull tab version and the punch top can was nearly obsolete by the end of the decade. The pull tab itself began to disappear in the mid 1970’s with the introduction of the non-detachable sta-tabs we know today.

Fraze’s company continued to innovate and prospered by supplying can end machinery to thousands of companies worldwide. Revenues reached $500 million dollars annually. Fraze died in 1989 at the age of 76 and his company was sold to the management. It continues to operate to this day. So the next time you pop open a can of beer or pop, hoist a toast to Ermal Fraze for making your life a little easier.

: Beverage Can History – Self Opening Can

What’s the tab on a can called?

pulltabs It doesn’t take much effort to save pull tabs, which add up. (Marc Bona, cleveland.com) CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s easy to dismiss the tab on a can. Finish the drink, toss the can, and it’s out of sight, out of mind. The evolution of can lids went from a flat, utilitarian top that required you to use a church key to punch down air and drinking holes on opposite ends of the metal top.

• Then came the pull tab, or ring tab.
• Pull it up, curl your finger underneath, and rip off.
• Detached from the can they ended up as litter or back in the cans (great choking fodder).
• Then came the current pop top / pull tab / StaTab that remains attached.
• But if you flip it up and back a few times it comes off.

And that’s what the folks at Ronald McDonald House like. Officials there turn them in to local recycling centers to defray costs at the house. Pull tabs are a high-grade aluminum that offer “more bang for your buck” to save vs. cans, said Meri Skiera, director of programs and services for Ronald McDonald House of Akron,

1. It’s doable for everybody to store and manage as a program.” Cans take up space, smell, and attract bugs, and facilities like the Ronald McDonald House don’t have storage capacity, she said.
2. I do talks to senior groups, Kiwanis, whatever,” she said.
3. It’s inevitable.
4. There will be one person who says ‘I’ve got two milk jugs in my trunk.

I’ve been carrying them around for two years – want ’em?’ I can’t tell you how often that has happened to me. “It doesn’t involve money; it’s just effort. It’s all positive, whether you’ve got two tabs or 2,000 tabs,” she said. “It’s something that’s less than a penny, but when everyone pulls together it’s an awesome statement.” Here are five facts about pull tabs: * A million tabs would weigh about 800 pounds.

• It takes more than 1,200 tabs to equal a pound.
• And about 63,360 pull tabs laid out would be a mile.
• The program in Akron kicked off about five years ago, Skiera said.
• Ronald McDonald House of Akron uses Metalico Annaco of Akron for its recycling.
• Skiera said the Akron program brings in about $4,000 a year, with a rate of about 55 cents per pound.

“That number will fluctuate based on the value of metal,” said Skiera, who added the rate floats between 30 and 75 cents. * Daniel F. Cudzik of Reynolds Metals Co. invented the tab in use today. He received a patent in 1976. His stay-on tab replaced the ring tab, which was invented in 1965.

And yes, as long as they are aluminum, the old ring tabs are accepted today, Skiera said. * Snopes.com says a million pull tabs have a recycle value of about $366. A hundred have a scrap-metal value of about 3 and a half cents, though that fluctuates. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

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Why are pull tabs worth money?

Little things make a big difference Pop Tabs You can help support the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Florida by donating the tabs you pull to open soda, soup and other aluminum cans. The funds generated from our Pop Tab Program help support our programs. RMH takes the tabs to our local recycling center, Wise Recycling. Every year around $5,000 is raised from this program. Although the whole aluminum can is valuable, the tab is cleaner and smaller, making it easier to collect in large quantities than whole cans.

• The tab of a standard soda can is made of high quality, high-grade aluminum.
• By itself, it doesn’t mean much, but when you pull together, pop-tabs add up and become a valuable donation.
• Anyone! Because pop tabs are common and easy to collect, any individual or group can participate.
• Many schools support this project because it provides a terrific opportunity for children to get involved and make a genuine contribution to their community.

Pop Tab Pandemonium Local area schools can participate in our Pop-Tab Pandemonium, which is a pop-tab competition to see who can collect the most pop-tabs. Register your school today by following the link below. Register

Are pull tabs worth it?

Value of collecting pop tabs // The Observer For over three years now, my friends and I have had an obsession with collecting pop tabs, those metal pieces on the tops of aluminum cans. The idea behind collecting the pop tabs is that they can be donated to the McDonald House Charities, an organization that helps families with sick children resident close to where their child’s treatment is located.

Our collecting had humble beginnings. My friend LG simply put a solo cup on the TV stand and asked us to pull the tabs off our beers and throw them in. After a few weeks, the cup was already full. What we had accomplished was incredible, all without getting up from our big brown couch. We started to dream about all the good we were doing for the world.

A can thrown into the trash with its tab still on was met with enormous hostility. “Save a tab, save a life,” became our motto. After our Halloween party, “3 Spooky Main,” (named after our hallway in Alumni) a purple pumpkin Halloween pail became our new collecting bin.

That’s when things really started to ramp up. Our hearts began to wonder. How long would it take to fill the pumpkin? Could it even be done? Could we save that many lives? Pop tab collection became a sort of competition, a team sport played against the opposition of time. My friends and I would scrounge around bars, pulling pop tabs off abandoned beer cans, drawing questioning glances from the unenlightened.

Tailgate season meant jingling pockets filled with pop tabs after long hours in the stadium parking lot. Breaks from school meant someone had to take the pumpkin home and care for it. On one of those breaks I went to a pottery painting store with my then nine-year-old sister.

• She painted a colorful rainbow lizard, an expression of her personal imagination and creativity.
• I revealed how entrenched I was in this quest by passing on hundreds of different animals, characters, and other blank pottery shapes in the store before finally taking one white bowl from a shelf and drawing in big green letters, “Save a tab, Save a life.” It wasn’t until this Fall, more than three years after our collecting began, that the pumpkin was full.

We made guesses as to how many pop tabs were within the beast. After an afternoon of counting, the tally stood at a little over 7,300 pop tabs. Amazed at what we had accomplished, I decided to see what our aluminum filled pumpkin was worth. Depending upon the market for high-grade aluminum, the Ronald McDonald house receives between to $0.50 per pound of pop tabs.

It takes roughly pop tabs to equal one pound. That means that at best, a pop tab is worth about $0.0004. In other words, you need 23 tabs to earn a penny. After over three years of collecting, with contributions coming from dozens of people, my friends and I had only raised about $3. I was at first taken aback, but it didn’t take long to make sense of it all.

I think we had known the whole time that we were never doing this for charity. We were doing this for us. It had all been a game. A game with no real consequence. The pop tab collecting program was started as a way to teach about philanthropy and the importance of recycling.

It was never meant to be a significant source of funding for the Ronald McDonald House. The program brings in about a year, compared to the that was donated in 2018 via McDonald’s restaurant facilitated fundraisers. I know collecting pop tabs is a very popular pastime across campus, with some dorms even sponsoring the activity.

While I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing something that will objectively lead to some good, I think it’s important that people know the ends that they are working towards. Going down the bar at Newfs ripping off the pop tabs of 30 empty white claws is a lot of fun and an amazing way to relieve social anxiety, but it won’t save anyone’s life.

1. If you want to collect pop tabs go ahead.
2. It can be a fun group activity and it does technically help others; just know you’re no Saint Mother Theresa, or really anybody who gives an hour of their time.
3. Matthew is the 3-Talley RA in Alumni Hall, from Cincinnati.
4. He majors in Civil Engineering with an itty bitty minor in Theology.

Writing this column is the last in his long list of shortly lived passions. He can be reached at and @coltonjorge on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. : Value of collecting pop tabs // The Observer

Why do people save aluminum pull tabs?

The funds generated from recycling these aluminum gems help offset the House’s expenses. Collecting pop tabs is a great program that benefits the Ronald McDonald House families and is easy to organize.

Are old beer cans worth money?

What are my beer cans worth? – The value of a vintage beer cans can run the spectrum of virtually nothing to upwards of $25,000. The three factors that impact a cans worth are: rarity, desirability and quality, Any can missing one or two of these factors will suffer in value.

When did aluminum cans replace tin?

The Difference Between Aluminum & Tin Can Updated March 13, 2018 By Rochelle Leggett While some people refer to tin cans and aluminum cans interchangeably, the two types of cans are not the same thing. People use tin cans and aluminum cans for the same general purposes; however, the two items are made from different materials and have different properties and manufacturing costs.

Cans have been an efficient storage container since 1810, when the tin can was patented. Aluminum cans were not available until 1965. Aluminum and tin cans have many uses, but are probably most known for containing and preserving food. Both types of cans protect food from light and air, are durable and are recyclable.

Tin is a low-melting crystalline metallic element that is malleable at room temperature. Tin is typically extracted from a mineral called cassiterite, a compound of tin and oxygen. Tin’s basic refining process makes it appealing for manufacturing. Tin also does not corrode easily, which is why it is useful for cans.

• A modern tin can is actually made from steel coated with a very thin layer of tin to prevent the steel from corroding.
• Aluminum is also a metallic element.
• Unlike tin, which only makes up 0.001 percent of Earth’s crust, aluminum is abundant, making up 8.2 percent.
• However, aluminum is much more difficult to refine and is always found in compounds in nature, usually potassium aluminum sulfate or aluminum oxide.

Different processes have been developed over time to refine aluminum, each increasingly more efficient. Aluminum cans are made from alloys of aluminum, and these alloys are notable for being strong and very lightweight. Tin cans are heavier than aluminum cans and are more durable.

• Tin cans are also highly resistant to the corrosive properties of acidic foods, like tomatoes.
• However, tin cans are less efficient for recycling than aluminum.
• The money saved from recycling aluminum rather than processing new aluminum is enough to pay to recycle and collect aluminum cans, and is enough to help cover the costs of recycling containers that are more difficult to process, such as plastic and glass.

: The Difference Between Aluminum & Tin Can

Why don t all cans have pop tops?

Why don’t we have ring pulls on all cans and tins – it is much easier to open a tin of dog food than a tin of soup? Why don’t we have ring pulls on all cans and tins – it is much easier to open a tin of dog food than a tin of soup?

THE REASON is that “ring-pulls” or Easy-Open (EO) ends are slightly more expensive, so they tend to be mainly used for the more expensive premium quality products. However, market research has shown that many consumers would be prepared to pay a little more for food in an easy-open can because of the added convenience. In the UK, the proportion of food cans with EO ends currently stands at 22% (including petfood) and many more EO ends are expected to be added to canned food products in the next few years. A recent example is HL Foods’ HP Baked Beans brand, which uses an end made by Carnaud Metalbox Food UK. The UK petfood market, which is much more sophisticated than other European petfood markets, is a major user of EO ends – they are included on almost all petfood cans in the UK. Hilary Schrafft, Features Editor, The Canner magazine, Crawley, West Sussex ([email protected])UK

IT MAY be true that ring-pulls on cans and tins make them easier to open for the able-bodied. The story is very different for my mother (arthritic fingers) and myself (tennis elbow). We’ve had to stop feeding our cat Whiskas for this very reason. Judith Hodgkin, Montpelier, Bristol,

• ALUMINIUM can but tin can’t. The riveting operation which attaches the ring-pull to a can lid is very demanding on the material and ring-pulls rely on can lids tearing off easily along a score line on their outer surface. Tin lids fail this test and only a few aluminium alloys meet the required standard. Although cans may have aluminium lids and tin bodies, they are more expensive than cans made entirely of tin.
  • (Dr) Josi Gonzalez, Tecnoparque, Barquisimeto, Venezuela ([email protected])

RINGPULL CANS can be opened by people with stiff or weak fingers. Use a flat blunt blade to lever the ring up and then insert the handle of a wooden spoon and lever the lid off. My small son can manage it easily this way. Imogen Clout, Law Department, University of Sheffield ([email protected])

• IN JAPAN, many do. We can open a can of soup, tin of tuna and a can of tomatoes at the flick of a finger. Great when camping and you realise that someone forgot to pack the tin opener.
  2. Debbie Hepples, Morioka, Japan.

• I RECENTLY wrote to Sainsbury’s explaining why I found ring-pull cans a hindrance rather than a help. Apart from the fact that my wife has to use a knife as lever, the lid leaves a flange which prevents the solid contents from sliding neatly out. So the contents have to be scooped out, which is untidy – and inaccurate where only the part-tin is needed. Sainsbury’s replied that they were passing my comments on to their buyer.
  • Wilfred Goodman, Battle, East Sussex.

• CAN IT BE true that arthritic and tennis-elbowed women are starving their cats because they haven’t the wit to open a ring-pull can with a tin opener?
  2. J Ruskin, Barnsley.

• Seriously, to those people that stopped using ring pull cans and try to make us feel sorry for them because the have tennis elbow and arthritis! Did it never occur to them that you can turn the can upside down and open it with a tin opener! Do they have to be told that on the tin too! Wow!
  • Trev Flynn, Dublin, Ireland

: Why don’t we have ring pulls on all cans and tins – it is much easier to open a tin of dog food than a tin of soup?

What year was beer sold in cans?

Canned beer makes its debut on January 24, 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia,

• Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.
• By the late 19th century, cans were instrumental in the mass distribution of foodstuffs, but it wasn’t until 1909 that the American Can Company made its first attempt to can beer.

This was unsuccessful, and the American Can Company would have to wait for the end of Prohibition in the United States before it tried again. Finally in 1933, after two years of research, American Can developed a can that was pressurized and had a special coating to prevent the fizzy beer from chemically reacting with the tin.

1. The concept of canned beer proved to be a hard sell, but Krueger’s overcame its initial reservations and became the first brewer to sell canned beer in the United States.
2. The response was overwhelming.
3. Within three months, over 80 percent of distributors were handling Krueger’s canned beer, and Krueger’s was eating into the market share of the “big three” national brewers–Anheuser-Busch, Pabst and Schlitz.

Competitors soon followed suit, and by the end of 1935, over 200 million cans had been produced and sold. The purchase of cans, unlike bottles, did not require the consumer to pay a deposit. Cans were also easier to stack, more durable and took less time to chill.

• As a result, their popularity continued to grow throughout the 1930s, and then exploded during World War II, when U.S.
• Brewers shipped millions of cans of beer to soldiers overseas.
• After the war, national brewing companies began to take advantage of the mass distribution that cans made possible, and were able to consolidate their power over the once-dominant local breweries, which could not control costs and operations as efficiently as their national counterparts.

Today, canned beer accounts for approximately half of the $20 billion U.S. beer industry. Not all of this comes from the big national brewers: Recently, there has been renewed interest in canning from microbrewers and high-end beer-sellers, who are realizing that cans guarantee purity and taste by preventing light damage and oxidation.

Who invented the pull-tab?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ermal Fraze
Born	September 16, 1913 Muncie, Indiana, U.S.
Died	October 26, 1989 (aged 76) Kettering, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Kettering University
Known for	Inventor of the Pull tab

Ermal Cleon ” Ernie ” Fraze (September 16, 1913 – October 26, 1989) was an American engineer who invented the pull-tab opener used in beverage cans,

When was the pull-tab invented?

Ermal Cleon Fraze; Invented Pull-Tab Opener for Cans Ermal Cleon Fraze, 76, who invented the pull-tab opener used on beer and soft drink cans. Fraze, an engineer, was born on a farm near Muncie, Ind., and moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he assembled novelties for Cracker Jack boxes.

1. In 1950, he started Dayton Reliable Tool & Manufacturing Co.
2. Nine years later while on a family picnic, Fraze had to use a car bumper to open a can of beer because he had no opener.
3. Thinking there must be an easier way to open cans, he came up with the pull tab.
4. Fraze obtained the first patent for a pull-tab can in 1963 and said then that he was not the first to envision an easy-open can but that he was the one who developed a way to attach the tab to the top of the can.

According to figures provided by his company, which receives royalties from the tabs’ manufacturer, Aluminum Co. of America, about 150 billion easy-open cans were used last year. In Dayton on Oct.26 of a brain tumor. Get our L.A. Goes Out newsletter, with the week’s best events, to help you explore and experience our city.

Are pop tabs worth anything?

The sweetest way to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities – It takes approximately 1,128 pop tabs to equal one pound. We typically receive between $0.40 to $0.50 per pound of pop tabs. This program brings in an average of $6,000 each year, Last year you donated over 13 million pop tabs! We accept more than just soda pop tabs.

The tabs can come from energy drinks, soup cans, or anything with a metallic tab. Our Pop Tab program is important because it provides extra revenue that can help make up for the donations that families cannot make. To house one family at Ronald McDonald House Charities© of the Coastal Empire is between $100-$140 per night.

That is a total of $1,157-$1,625 a night when our 13-bedroom House is full. We ask for a $10 per night room contribution from our families, but no family is turned away based on the inability to pay. After collecting your pop tabs you can drop them off any time in the pop tab house by the entrance of the House located at 4710 Waters Ave, Savannah Ga.

Why did they call it tab?

History – Tab was created in 1963 by Coca-Cola after the successful sales and marketing of Diet Rite cola, owned by The Royal Crown Company. Previously, Diet Rite had been the only sugarless soda on the market. Tab was marketed to consumers who wanted to “keep tabs” on their weight.

Coca-Cola’s marketing research department used its IBM 1401 computer to generate a list of over 185,000 four-letter words with one vowel, adding names suggested by the company’s own staff; the list was stripped of any words deemed unpronounceable or too similar to existing trademarks. Of a final list of about twenty names, “Tabb” was chosen, influenced by the possible play on words, and shortened to “Tab” during development.

Packaging designer Robert Sidney Dickens gave the name the capitalization pattern (“TaB”) used in the logo as well as creating a new bottle design for the soft drink. For a time in the 1970s, Coca-Cola introduced six variety flavors of Tab (all of which were also sugar-free): Root Beer, Lemon-Lime, Ginger Ale, Black Cherry, Strawberry, and Orange.

• A caffeine -free version of the original Tab flavor was introduced in 1983, alongside caffeine-free versions of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke.
• Tab Clear, a caramel color -free version of Tab, was released in the United States in 1992, and subsequently in the United Kingdom and Japan.
• Tab Clear was discontinued in 1994.

In 2006, Coca-Cola introduced Tab Energy, Though it shares the Tab branding, its formula is entirely different from that of the standard cola: it is sweetened with sucralose and has a sour, tart flavor.

What is the tab on a beer can called?

Pull tab Pull tab may refer to:

, a built-in device used to open a beverage can, a game using gambling tickets, A strip of Stretch-To-Release adhesive found in some modern smartphones and tablets used to adhere the Lithium Battery to the device’s housing.