Toilet Paper Roll Patent
The topic of conversation is a patent from 1891 with the dull title wrapping or toilet paper roll inventor seth wheeler of albany new york patented a toilet paper roll with tear off sheets.
Toilet paper roll patent. It is usually supplied as a long strip of. These sheets are produced by arched serrated. The patent reads this. Seth yvheeler of albany neyv york.
Incisions as shown at c c 0 0 in fig. Toilet paper sometimes called toilet roll toilet tissue or loo roll in britain is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding area of feces after defecation and to clean the perineal area of urine after urination or other bodily fluid releases. Google patent database the idea for perforated toilet paper was originally patented by wheeler s albany perforated wrapping paper company in 1871 and then re patented again in a roll form in. 2 of soft paper suitable for toilet use.
S wheeler wrapping ob. This patent from seth wheeler dates to 1887 and shows an early version of the toilet paper roll. The era of modern toilet paper was just getting started in the late 1800s. Wrapping or toilet paper roll.
T ne 555 nite states atent o fice. 459516 dated september 15 1891 application filed june 10. 1 which extend from the edge of each sheet almost to the center where the incisions terminate in an angular cut in the direction of the roll and the center line of.