US Patent: 150,588
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| Improvement in packings for bottles, jars, &c.
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Patentee:
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| Oliver Long (exact or similar names) - Brooklyn, NY |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 09, 1874 |
| Granted: |
May 05, 1874 |
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Description: |
| This patent covers a packaging material consisting of two sheets of paper (or other flexible material) sandwiching an interstitial layer of "shavings or finely-cut strips" of paper or other material, and this sandwich held together by "mucilage, glue, or flour paste". The rights to this invention were subsequently sold to paper-box maker Robert Gair, who used a sheet of corrugated paper as that interstitial layer, making what we now know as "corrugated cardboard". This patent is considered to be the original patent for corrugated cardboard. There were two notable earlier patents in the evolution of corrugated cardboard. An 1856 British patent, {GB185,601,597}, to Edward C. Healey and Edward E. Allen, for a method of pleating (corrugating) paper, which was intended for use in making top hats. In 1871 Albert L. Jones started using corrugated paper as packaging for lamp chimneys and glass bottles. |
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