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A tin can, also called a tin (especially in British English) or a can, is an air-tight container for the distribution or storage of goods, composed of thin metal, and requiring cutting or tearing of the metal as the means of opening. more...
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Cans hold diverse contents, but the overwhelming proportion preserve food by canning.
The modern tin can is an elaboration of the invention in the decade of the 1800s by Nicolas Francois Appert. It was patented by the Englishman Peter Durand in 1810. Due to the invention of mass production, the tin can became a consumer standard late in the 19th century, primarily in industrialized countries but nearly universally known elsewhere.
Classic shapes
Cans with the most common, three-piece, construction usually have identical and parallel round tops and bottoms with vertical sides. However, where the small volume to be contained and/or the shape of the contents suggests it, the top and bottom may be rounded-cornered rectangles or ovals. Other contents may justify a can that is overall somewhat conical shape.
The fabrication of most cans results in at least one "rim", a narrow ring whose outside diameter is slightly larger than that of the rest of the can. The flat surfaces of rimmed cans are recessed from the edge of any rim (toward the middle of the can) by about the width of the rim; the inside diameter of a rim, adjacent to this recessed surface, is slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the rest of the can.
Three-piece can construction results in top and bottom "rims"; in two-piece construction, one piece is a flat top and the other a cup-shaped piece that combines the (at least roughly) cylindrical wall and the round base; the transition between the wall and base is usually somewhat gradual. Such cans have a single rim at the top.
In the mid-20th century, a few milk products were packaged in nearly rimless cans, reflecting different construction; in this case, one flat surface had a hole (for filling the nearly complete can) that was sealed after filling with a quickly solidifying drop of molten solder. Concern arose that the milk contained unsafe levels of lead leached from this solder plug.
Materials
No cans presently in wide use are composed primarily or wholly of tin; that term rather reflects the near-exclusive use in cans, until the last half of the 20th century, of tinplate steel.
Use of aluminium in cans began in the 1960s; often the top is tin-plated steel and the rest of the can aluminum.
A can usually has a printed paper or plastic label glued to the outside of the curved surface, indicating its contents. Less commonly, a label is painted directly onto the metal.
Food that does not require complete sealing, and some non-food products like engine oil may be sold in can-like containers whose cardboard tube fills the role of the wall, with a metal top and bottom.
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