A top lid for beverage cans with an opener integrated sanitary cover is
disclosed. The sanitary cover 8 is designed to cover the area around the
opening piece 3a defined on the top lid 50 by a depressed seam 3c, thus
protecting the lip contact portion of the top lid 50 from atmospheric
impurities and keeping the can sanitary during storage of the can. The
sanitary cover 8 also has a reinforced opener part 13 which presses down
the opening piece 3a and breaks the piece 3a along the depressed seam 3c
when the cover 8 is levered up. The opener part 13 has a reinforcing rib
13b improving the stiffness of the opener part 13, and so the opener part
13 reliably breaks the opening piece 3a without failure even though a high
pressure acts on the interior surface of the opening piece 3a. The
configuration and arrangement of the reinforcing means for the opener part
13 may be freely changed in accordance with the designed conditions of the
can, or the interior pressure acting on the opening piece 3a and the size
of the can. The sanitary cover 8 also has a thumb-operable resilient dome
6 used for elastically raising up the cover 8 when the dome 6 is pressed
down by a thumb. Due to the dome 6, it is easy for a user to handle the
cover 8 while levering up the cover 8 to open the top lid 50.