Dose anyone have a biography about Ermal Fraze the man who invented the aluminum pop can?

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Every time I look I only find about a paragraoh of information. I need to know about his life like a biography not about his invention. Thanks!

Answer 1

Ermal "Ernie" Fraze was born in 1913 in Indiana. He eventually moved to Ohio, where he embarked upon a career as a machine tool operator during the 1940s. In 1949, he formed his own machine tool business, the Dayton Reliable Tool Company, in Dayton, Ohio. This firm manufactured tools and machinery for various industries. Among Fraze's clients were General Electric, Ford, Chrysler, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. To improve his business acumen, Fraze also enrolled and graduated from the General Motors Institute, modern-day Kettering University, in Flint, Michigan.

In 1959, Fraze decided to invent an improved beverage can. The current design required people to purchase a separate opener to access the beverage. One day at a picnic, Fraze forgot his "church key," the name for the opener, and had to use a car bumper to open drinks for himself and his guests. Later this same year, Fraze developed a can with the opener, a lever, attached. Unfortunately, this design produced a sharp opening, sometimes injuring the drinkers. Soon thereafter, Fraze developed a can, known as the "pull-top" can, where the user only had to pull a removable tab to access the drink. Although Fraze did not receive a patent for his invention until October 31, 1967, over seventy-five percent of beer brewers in the United States of America had adopted Fraze's can by 1965. The first company to utilize Fraze's design was the Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Fraze's pull-top can proved to be a major improvement in beverage packaging, allowing drinkers quick and easy access to their drink. Unfortunately, pull-top cans increased litter in the United States, as many users simply threw the tab onto the ground. Other drinkers injured themselves by placing the tab inside of the can and then swallowing or cutting themselves on the tab when they drank. To solve these issues, in 1977, Fraze patented the first push-in and fold-back tab. This tab remained attached to the can, and it is the principal design still used on canned beverages today. By 1980, Fraze's new tab design and machinery to manufacture the can was earning the Dayton Reliable Tool Company, known by this time as the Dayton Reliable Tool and Manufacturing Company, Inc., over 500 million dollars per year.

Fraze died from a brain tumor in 1989. Soon thereafter, Fraze's heirs sold the Dayton Reliable Tool and Manufacturing Company, Inc., to the business's managers. It remains in operation in Dayton today.


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Ernie Fraze

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Fraze, born in Indiana in 1913 and better known as “Ernie,” grew up on a farm and moved to Ohio where he found tool and die work in the 1940s. With a small loan from his wife, Martha, he established his own company, the Reliable Tool and Manufacturing Co., in 1949 in Dayton. He was the company’s sole employee in its early days. Soon, however, he had customers in a variety of industries, making materials related to the war effort during World War II such as improved gun barrels for war planes that sped up bullets fired during flight. He patented this and other innovations, and later earned an engineering degree at the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich. The school is now known as Kettering University.

By 1959, Fraze had built a modestly successful enterprise with clients including General Electric, Ford, Chrysler and even NASA, but his most lucrative invention was still to come. That year, while at a picnic with family and friends, he realized he had forgotten to bring an opener for the canned beverages at the event so he was forced to use a car bumper to pry them open. This got him thinking of possible solutions to the problem that would eliminate the need for a can opener in the future.

One night, several months later, he was having trouble sleeping, so he thought he’d try and tire himself out by working for an hour or two on some mundane problem. The can opening incident came to mind. Others had tried to come up with a self-opening can idea, but so far, those devices remained unsuccessful. Most concepts broke or malfunctioned easily. Fraze concentrated on an idea that would use a lever attached to a rivet at the center of the top of a round can. He believed that strengthening the rivet would be the secret to success, as this would help the lever stand up to the internal pressure of the can and, if the aluminum were pre-scored with an opening, the rivet and lever would be strong enough for pulling the can open without the lever snapping off.

Fraze’s first version used a lever that pierced a hole in the can but resulted in sharp, sometimes dangerous edges. Later he created the familiar pull-tab version, which had a ring attached at the rivet for pulling, and which would come off completely to be tossed aside. He received U.S. patent No. 3,349,949 for his pull-top can design in 1963 and sold his invention to Alcoa.

The Pittsburgh Brewing Company was the first customer to use the design. Maker of Iron City Beer, the company found its sales soaring quickly after introducing the pop-top cans. Other beer and beverage companies became interested and by 1965, nearly 75 percent of U.S. breweries were using them. In the mid-1970's, outcry from environmentalists lead to the development of the can-tops we know today that use non-removable tabs, created first by the Continental Can Co.

Meanwhile, Fraze began manufacturing systems for brewers and soft-drink companies to be able to make their cans using his pull-tab design. By 1980, his company, renamed DRT Mfg. Co., (for “Dayton Reliable Tool”), was supplying can-end machinery all over the world with over $500 million in annual revenues.

Fraze died of a brain tumor at the age of 76 in 1989, and his company was sold and repurchased by its management. It remains in business today operating out of Dayton, with subsidiary operations in South Carolina and Germany.

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He invented the pull-tab opener used on beer and soft drink cans.

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