Paper Towel - Paper Towel Holders and Towel Dispensers
Paper towels took the place of traditional kitchen towels in 1931 and we never went back. They are a sanitary and convenient way to wipe up spills in your kitchen and around the home. Plus you won't soil your nice clean kitchen towels or create large volumes of laundry.
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Paper towels today are not only a convenience but the paper towel holders and dispensers are sleek, stylish additions to public and private spaces. You may be accustomed to seeing paper towels in public restrooms, but did you know that many private homes utilize paper towel holders or paper towel dispensers.
They are crafted out of a variety of materials with many designs to choose from. Paper towels are no longer limited to the boxy, industrial looking holders with unattractive key-holes in the front. Today's paper towel dispensers are designed by expert artists and look more like a piece of art than a "box to hold paper towels."
The history of paper towels:
We have Arthur Scott, head of a paper products company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to thank. In the early 1930's Scott found that he had big trouble. Unloaded at his plant was an entire railroad car full of paper that wasn't good for anything. Apparently the paper had been rolled too thick for toilet tissue, its intended purpose.
Scott could have sent the whole shipment back. But he didn't. He had heard of a teacher in the city school system who had developed an innovative idea to help fight colds in public schools. She gave every runny nosed child a piece of soft paper. They were instructed to use it instead of using the roller towel in the toilets and contaminating them with germs. Scott thought that his paper would be ideal for this use and decided that he would try to sell the carload of paper.
In 1931, Scott introduced to the public, the first paper towel marketed as Sani -Towels. By doing this he created a whole new grocery category. Scott perforated the rolls of "towels" thirteen inches wide and eighteen inches long. Advertisements promoted that idea that each perforated piece was "For use once by one user." A wave of success came when states started to outlaw the use of cloth-roll towels because of communicable disease.
That is how the paper towels we know today were born. It is interesting to know that it took many years before they gained acceptance in middle class households and replaced cloth towels for kitchen use.
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