Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Pull-tab can opener
Patented by Ermal Fraze
1963
A tab and tear strip for opening a drinks can without a tool.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“Patented July 2, 1963”United States Patent Office — original patent text hosted by Google Patents: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“In 1963, Fraze received a patent for his “tear strip opener.””William G. Pomeroy Foundation: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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