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HISTORY OF CELLOPHANE:
Bellis, Mary "Cracker Jack" Inventors at About. Retrieved
January 1, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcrackerjacks.htm
Cellophane was invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger in 1908,
a Swiss textile engineer who first thought of the idea for
a clear,
protective, packaging layer in 1900. Brandenberger was seated
at a restaurant when a customer spilt wine onto the tablecloth.
As the waiter replaced the cloth, Brandenberger decided that
he would invent a clear flexible film that could be applyed
to cloth, making it waterproof.
He experimented with different materials and in tried applying
liquid viscose (a cellulose product known as rayon) to cloth,
but the viscose made the cloth too stiff. His idea failed but
he noted
that the coating peeled off in a transparent film. Like so many
inventions, the original use was abandoned and new and better
uses were found. By 1908, he developed the first machine for
the manufacture
of transparent sheets of regenerated cellulose. By 1912, Brandenberger
was making a saleable thin flexible film used in gas masks. He
obtained patents to cover the machinery and the essential ideas
of his process. In 1917 Brandenberger assigned his patents to
La Cellophane Societe Anonyme and joined that organization.
On December 26, 1923, an agreement was executed between du Pont
Cellophane Company and La Cellophane by which La Cellophane licensed
du Pont Cellophane Company exclusively under its United States
cellophane patents, and granted du Pont Cellophane Company the
exclusive right to make and sell in North and Central America
under La Cellophane's secret processes for cellophane manufacture.
Du
Pont Cellophane Company granted to La Cellophane exclusive rights
for the rest of the world under any cellophane patents or processes
du Pont Cellophane Company might develop.
An important factor in the growth of cellophane production and
sales was the perfection of moistureproof cellophane, a superior
product of du Pont research and patented by that company through
a 1927 application.
Making Cellophane
In the manufacturing process, an alkaline solution of cellulose
fibres (usually wood or cotton) known as viscose is extruded
through a narrow slit into an acid bath. The acid regenerates
the cellulose,
forming a film. Further treatment, such as washing and bleaching,
yields cellophane.
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