Flexible plastic handle with integral plug for attachment to metal cans

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF A CONTAINER END PANEL AND AN INTEGRAL HANDLE AND ATTACHMENT PLUG COMPRISING, AN END PANEL, AN OPENING IN SAID PANEL, SAID OPENING BEING FORMED IN A RADIALLY INWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED FLANGE TERMINATING IN A PERIPHERAL EDGE, AND AN ATTACHMENT PLUG RECEIVED IN SAID OPENING, SAID ATTACHMENT PLUG COMPRISING A PLUG BODY, SAID PLUG BODY HAVING A CIRCULAR INNER END WALL, A FLAT TOP SURFACE JOINING A PAIR OF DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED UPWARDLY INCLINED SURFACES, AND A DEPENDING PERIPHERAL SKIRT, SAID PERIPHERAL SKIRT HAVING A MEDIAL PERIPHERAL LOCKING PORTION, A LOWERMOST PERIPHERAL ENTRANCE PORTION, AND A TERMINAL SURFACE, SAID PERIPHERAL LOCKING PORTION HAVING FIRST AND SECOND EXTERIOR PERIPHERAL WALL PORTIONS, SAID FIRST AND SECOND WALL PORTIONS DEFINING A PERIPHERAL LOCKING GROOVE, SAID FIRST WALL PORTION BEING RADIALLY INWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY TAPERED, SAID SECOND WALL PORTION BEING RADIALLY INWARDLY DIRECTED SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO THE BODY AXIS, SAID PERIPHERAL ENTRANCE PORTION BEING DEFINED BY A RADIALLY INWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED WALL PORTION BETWEEN SAID SECON WALL PORTION AND SAID TERMINAL SURFACE, SAID WALL PORTION OF SAID PERIPHERAL ENTRANCE PORTION BEING MORE STEEPLY INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO THE HORIZONTAL THAN SAID FIRST PERIPHERAL WALL PORTION, AN INNER LONGITUDINAL OPEN CAVITY WITHIN SAID PLUG BODY, SAID END WALL DEFINING THE TERMINUS OF SAID CAVITY, SAID CAVITY BEING SET OFF BY A LOWER INTERNAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL WALL JOINED TO AN INNER UPPER CIRCUMFERENTIAL WALL BY A DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED ANNULAR RIDGE, A HANDLE JOINED TO SAID BODY AT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED PORTIONS OF SAID CIRCULAR END WALL AND SAID FLAT TOP SURFACE, SAID HANDLE FORMED OF A FIRST AND A SECOND RIGID SUPPORTING PORTION EXTENDING FROM SAID PAIR OF UPWARDLY INCLINED SURFACES, ONE SUPPORTING PORTION PER SURFACE AND IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME PLANE AS SAID FLAT TOP SURFACE, RELATIVELY THIN CONNECTING PORTIONS IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME PLANE AS SAID FLAT TOP SURFACE AND JOINED TO EACH OF SAID RIGID SUPPORTING PORTIONS, SAID CONNECTING PORTIONS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL AND EXTENDING TOWARD A HAND GRIP PORTION JOINING AN END OF EACH OF SAID CONNECTING PORTIONS, SAID HAND GRIP PORTION INCLUDING A CENTRAL FLANGE AND INTEGRALLY JOINED UPPER AND LOWER FLANGES HAVING ENDS SMOOTHLY CURVED FOR SMALL DISTANCES ALONG EACH OF SAID CONNECTING PORTIONS, SAID SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL CONNECTING PORTIONS BEING JOINED AT SAID CENTRAL FLANGE OF SAID HAND GRIP PORTION, SAID RELATIVELY THIN CONNECTING PORTIONS PERMITTING SAID HANDLE TO BE READILY HINGED ALONG SAID CONNECTING PORTIONS WITHOUT DISTORTION OF SAID SUPPORTING PORTIONS FROM A FIRST POSITION IN WHICH SAID HAND GRIP PORTION IS SUBSTANTIALLY COPLANAR WITH SAID END WALL IS IN A SECOND POSITION IN WHICH SAID HAND GRIP PORTION IS IN A PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO SAID END WALL, SAID FIRST WALL PORTION RECEIVING SAID FLANGE THEREAGAINST,AND SAID SECOND PERIPHERAL WALL BEING IN CONTACT WITH SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE WHEREBY FORCES TENDING TO REMOVE SAID PLUG FROM SAID OPENING INCREASE THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE SECOND PERIPHERAL WALL AND THE PERIPHERAL EDGE OF THE FLANGE.