A cone top (also called a cap-sealed can, cone-top, or conetop) is a type of can, especially a type of beverage can, introduced in 1935. [1] Cone tops were designed in response to flat top beer cans as a hybrid between beer bottle and flat top can. Cone tops were especially attractive to smaller breweries which did not have the capital necessary to buy new canning machinery; cone tops could be filled on standard bottling equipment.
Because they were typically made with steel, [2] beverage cans faded out during the metal shortages of World War II. They were continued after the war, but fell out of use in 1960. [3] They are now considered collector's items.
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A cone top (also called a cap-sealed can, cone-top, or conetop) is a type of can, especially a type of beverage can, introduced in 1935. [1] Cone tops were designed in response to flat top beer cans as a hybrid between beer bottle and flat top can. Cone tops were especially attractive to smaller breweries which did not have the capital necessary to buy new canning machinery; cone tops could be filled on standard bottling equipment.
Because they were typically made with steel, [2] beverage cans faded out during the metal shortages of World War II. They were continued after the war, but fell out of use in 1960. [3] They are now considered collector's items.
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