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ERMAL C. FRAZE;Industrialist and Inventor

Ermal Cleon Fraze, 76, an industrialist who during a night of insomnia invented the removable pull-tab opener used on beer and soft drink cans, died of a brain tumor Oct. 26 at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio.

His opener, patented in 1963, was replaced in the 1970s by a non-removable tab. A patent for the later model was transferred to him by its inventor in 1978, but a patent for a similar item was issued the next year to Continental Can Co. Inc. Mr. Fraze sued Continental for patent infringement and lost.

Born on an Indiana farm, Mr. Fraze settled in ...

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