A bucket that provides a way to easily pull or push, by having less friction and resistance. The bucket has an approximately two inch round high center bottom that helps minimize contact with a surface. As the bucket becomes heavier with water, the bucket becomes more stable by nesting on the raised center diamond shape and onto a circular, quartered gaped, rounded top, inside ridge. The bucket acquires maximum stability and max friction when heaviest by nesting onto the quartered gaped rounded top outside ridge which slopes down to the buckets bottom edge of the outside wall. The rounded top bottom channels allow surface material to move through the gaps, but also will not allow water to collect on the bottom. The bucket has handles and hooking holes for the easy pushing and pulling over surfaces when heavy.

A container can end includes a concave dome shape and may forgo a peripheral reinforcing bead around the center panel. The tab may also be curved. Tooling for forming the end and a corresponding method are provided.

The present invention is a cup can. The cup can includes a can body and a resealable top. The resealable top includes a can lid and a cap. The can lid is attached to the can body with an interior cavity. The can lid provides an opening into the interior cavity of the can body and allows for the contents within the interior cavity to be removed. The cap is removably attached to the can lid. The cap is secured to the can lid and seals the contents of the interior cavity of the can body. The cap may be removed and reattached to the can lid, thereby providing a resealable container.

A hollow preform impact extruded from a metal billet to produce a progressing wall at a transition wall thickness. An axially forward portion of the progressing wall is ironed by extrusion past an extrusion point to form a sidewall portion of a lesser thickness. Extruding is stopped while some of the billet remains to form the closed bottom end. The preform has a bottom portion, a sidewall portion and a transition wall portion extending between the bottom portion and the sidewall portion. The transition wall portion is thicker than the sidewall portion and can be formed into at least part of the rim of an expansion shaped container. An impact extrusion punch has a central axis, an axially forward, impact surface for impacting metal to be extruded, a transition region for directing material displaced by the impact surface and a rear extrusion point for ironing material extruded past the transition region.

In the sealing method, a flexible lid is adhered onto a ring portion of a flange that delimits a wide opening of the container to be sealed. The flange is tapering upwardly at least before the sealing of the flexible lid, so as to define a slope angle between 5 and 20 to the horizontal at the ring portion. The body of the container includes a side wall and the flange connected to an annular axial end of the side wall, the flange surrounding the opening and being an internal flange protruding radially inward. The ring portion is axially pushed and heated, typically by action of a sealing head. The body is typically in PET and the flange has a radial extension superior to about 2.0 mm and inferior or equal to 5.0 mm.

A tool for curling of can necks as part of a tool plate that includes an expansion control device for controlling of the spreading of a collet, a collet clutch, an interconnecting means provided with a stop mechanism, and a holder being fixed in the collet clutch at its one end, the collet being arranged on its other end, the collet in the non-active position being insertable into the can to permit segments of the collet to spread in the direction of the device.

A sealing lid. The sealing lid includes a lid top portion having an upper surface and a lower surface. An outer concentric ring protrudes from the lower surface of the lid top portion. An inner concentric ring protrudes from the lower surface of the lid top portion. A channel is defined between the outer concentric ring and the inner concentric ring. The sealing lid is configured to releasably secure to a top rim of a beverage can by the top rim friction fitting within the channel.

An accessory for use with a portable container includes a jacket having a storage member and configured to extend around at least a portion of the sidewall of the container and a connection member connected to the jacket and configured to support the jacket in connection with the container. The connection member includes a connector configured to be connected to a port on the container such that a portion of the connector is received through the port.

An accessory for use with a portable container includes a jacket having a storage member and configured to extend around at least a portion of the sidewall of the container and a connection member connected to the jacket and configured to support the jacket in connection with the container. The connection member includes a connector configured to be connected to a port on the container such that a portion of the connector is received through the port.

A nestable drum for storing liquids is disclosed. In one non-limiting example, a drum may include a tapered cylinder between a first end and a second end. The tapered cylinder can have a top opening at the first end. A recessed port is positioned along a surface of the tapered cylinder. The recessed port can provide a side opening and can be configured as an outlet port for a liquid. The drum also includes a first recessed platform and a recessed platform. The first recessed platform can be nearer to the first end than the second end along on the surface of the tapered cylinder. The second recessed platform can nearer to the second end than the first end along on the surface of the tapered cylinder. The second recessed platform can extend further inward toward a center of the tapered cylinder than the first recessed platform.