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Claim 1

IN A CONTAINER CONSTRUCTION, A BODY, AN END LOCK SEAMED ONTO SAID BODY, A COLLAR SECURED BETWEEN SAID BODY AND END ADJACENT TO ONE END OF SAID BODY, SAID COLLAR HAVING AN ANNULAR LEDGE ADJACENT TO BUT SPACED FROM SAID END FORMED WITH A NECK SURROUNDING AN OPENING TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE INTERIOR OF SAID BODY, AND A CAP FOR SAID OPENING COMPRISING A FLANGE FITTING ON SAID LEDGE AND A CYLINDRICAL WALL FITTING INSIDE SIDE NECK, THE FLANGE ON THE CAP TERMINATING SHORT OF THE INTERIOR WALL OF THE BODY ALONG ITS ENTIRE PERIPHERY BY AN AMOUNT AT LEAST SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW SPACE FOR A CUTTING TOOL TO MOVE BETWEEN THE FLANGE AND THE BODY AS THE TOOL PENETRATES AND CUTS THE END ALONG A PATH INWARDLY OF THE SEAM, SAID NECK AND CAP HAVING COOPERATING MEANS TO SECURE SAID CAP IN PLACE AND RELEASE SAID CAP BY TWISTING SAID CAP RELATIVE TO SAID COLLAR, A PART OF SID COOPERATING MEANS, UPON TWISTING SAID CAP TO SECURED POSITION, INTERFITTING WITH ANOTHER PART THEREOF TO DRAW SAID CAP AND COLLAR INTO A RELATIVELY AIRTIGHT SEALING PRESSURE ENGAGEMENT TO SEAL SAID OPENING, WHEREBY THE SPACE WITHIN THE CONTAINER AND BELOW THE COLLAR IS SEALED FROM THE SPACE BETWEEN THE COLLAR AND SAID END, SAID FLANGE FILLING THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID LEDGE AND END EXTERTING UPWARD PRESSURE ON SAID END WHEREBY UPON CUTTING SAID END WITH A CONVENTIONAL CAN OPENER THE CUT PORTION OF SAID END IS LIFTED.