factory

This BRAU crown added to my factory collection May 2006

This exhibit features a variety of Factory crowns, meaning they were used for such reasons as to test production lines or to promote the factory. The Crown Cap Museum is always seeking Factory promotional and Factory test crowns to put on display. The Museam would also like to exhibit mispunch/misprint crowns. These are crowns that came off the assembly line with some type of defect. The Crown Cap Museum would like to thank Dennis Smith and Joe Roberts of the United States, Sergey Tenenbaum and Alex Machinistov of Russia, Jiri Mejzr of the Czech Republic, Ed Veld and Kees Booij of the Netherlands, Alina Koziol of Germany, and Franco Palmirani of Italy for providing many of these Factory crowns. If you have duplicates of Factory crowns not shown in this exhibit, please E-mail the Crown Cap Museum about a trade.

April 26, 2005

ZapatA Crown Factory, United States

This is a selection of truely one-of-a-kind ZapatA Experimental Crowns. These were never intended for products or promotions, but simply to test some basic, hidden principles involved in the creation of a new crown cap.

ZapatA created these crowns to test the idea of using 28 and 32 flutes around the edge instead of the traditional 21 flutes. ZapatA aborted the project.

These Zima Test crowns were produced around 1997 by ZapatA. You will see the word BEER written on two of them, as well as the testing dates. Zima is NOT a beer which makes these Test crowns even more unique. You can see more of these odd crowns in the Factory Flaws Gallery.

Modricky KOREK, Czech Republic

Subeko KOREK, Czech Republic

Omnipol KOREK, Czech Republic

TIK Trade Invest Kosice, Slovakia

The five caps in row #2, were issued for a Russian Beer Fair in 1999 by TIK.

These crowns feature inside and outside illustrations of the TIK factory.

Blechwarenfabrik Crown Factory,
Germany

Eurotap Factory,
Spain

This crown was produced for a beer collector's convention in Spain in 2003.

Raschau Factory, (East) Germany

Tapon Corona Experimental
Test Cap

Crown Cork & Seal, United States

Hutchinson Crown Factory, U.S.A.

This crown was produced by CC&S for the KHS Company in Bangkok, Thailand, to promote its innovative Innopack bottling machine concepts.

Pennyslvania Crown Corporation, United States

Metro Beverages, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A (cork-backed, circa 1967)

Chicago Crown Company, United States

KERR Packaging Products, United States

Armstrong Factory Test Crown, United States

Military Beer Crown, United States

(Armstrong was later acquired by Kerr Packaging Products)

Delmenhorster KorkFabik A. Linck BASF Chemie GmbH Factory, Germany

H. Bruninghaus Versmold, Germany

"Jubilaum"

This crown was issued for collector G�nter Offermann, from Hamburg, Germany (made by H. Br�ninghaus, Versmold, Germany) when his collection was entered in the German version of the Guiness book of records. The text reads (line by line): Jubilee 9-9-1989.; Over 50,000 pieces. Crown caps from 154 countries. Entry in the Guinness book of records.

This is the complete set of 27 black Test Crowns produced by the HB Factory, Germany, in 2004. The Museum also has this set in blue, yellow, green, red and purple numbers. A photo is coming soon..

Delmanhorster Kork-Fabrik, Germany