Beaded container with lift tab cover

Claim 1

A CONTAINER HAVING, IN COMBINATION, A CYLINDRICAL TUBULAR BODY HAVING A DOWNWARDLY REOUNDED LIP BEAD EXTENDING AROUND ITS OPEN END, A COVER OF RELATIVELY THIN AND RESILIENT SHEET METAL HAVING A GENERALLY FLAT TOP AND HAVING AN INTEGRAL SKIRT DEPENDING FROM THE PERIPHERY OF THE TOP AND TELESCOPED DOWN OVER SAID BEAD; SAID SKIRT INCLUDING A FIRST ARCUATE SECTION EXTENDING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY AROUND A RELATIVELY LONG ARC OF SAID BEAD, A SECOND ARCUATE SECTION DISPOSED AT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID TOP OPPOSITE SAID FIRST SECTION AND EXTENDING AROUND A SHORTER ARC OF SAID BEAD, AND TWO INTERMEDIATE ARCUATE SECTION OF LESER ARCUATE LENGTH THAN SAID FIRST SECTION BUT OF GREATER ARCUATE LENGTH THAN SAID SECOND SECTION EACH EXTENDING ANGULARLY BETWEEN ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND SECTIONS; SAID FIRST SKIRT SECTION HAVING A LOWER FREE EDGE PORTION HOOKED FULLY AROUND SAID BEAD TO HOLD SAID COVER FIRMLY ON SAID BODY, SAID INTERMEDIATE SKIRT SECTIONS EACH BEING HOOKED ONLY PARTIALLY AROUND SAID HEAD AND HAVING FREE EDGE PORTIONS OFFSET UPWARDLY FROM AND SPACED ABOVE THE PLANE OF THE FREE EDGE PORTION OF SAID FIRST SKIRT SECTION, AND SAID SECTION SKIRT SECTION HAVING A LOWER PORTION HOOKED AROUND SAID BEAD BELOW THE FREE EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS; A PULL TAB INTEGRAL AT ITS UPPER END WITH AND CONSTITUTING AN EXTENSION OF SAID SECOND SKIRT SECTION, SAID TAB EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY FROM SAID BEAD TO PRESENT A FREE END PORTION ADAPTED FOR MANUAL GRASPING; AND A PAIR OF UPRIGHT SCORE LINES ANGULARLY SPACED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS FROM SAID TAB AND EACH FORMED BETWEEN THE ENDS OF ONE OF SAID INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS WITH THE ANGULAR DISTANCE BETWEEN EACH SCORE LINE AND THE ADJACENT SIDE OF THE TAB BEING AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE ARCUATE LENGTH OF SAID SECOND SKIRT SECTION.