{"id":1635,"date":"2011-01-03T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2010-07-04T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T01:38:01","slug":"drinking-straw-patented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Drinking Straw Patented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws. Stone was already a manufacturer of paper cigarette holders. His idea was to make paper drinking straws. Before his straws, beverage drinkers were using the natural rye grass straws.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Stone made his prototype straw by winding strips of paper around a pencil and gluing it together. He then experimented with paraffin-coated manila paper, so the straws would not become soggy while someone was drinking. Marvin Stone decided the ideal straw was 8 1\/2-inches long with a diameter just wide enough to prevent things like lemon seeds from being lodged in the tube.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>The product was patented on January the 3rd, 1888. By 1890, his\u00c2\u00a0 factory was producing more straws than cigarette holders. In 1906, the first machine was invented by the Stone&#8217;s &#8220;Stone Straw Corporation&#8221; to machine-wind straws, ending the hand-winding process. Later other kinds of spiral-wound paper and non-paper products were made.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In 1928, electrical engineers began to use spiral-wound tubes in the first mass produced radios. All made by the same process invented by Stone. Spiral-wound tubing is now found everywhere &#8212; in electric motors, electrical apparatus, electronic devices, electronic components, aerospace, textile, automotive, fuses, batteries, transformers, pyrotechnics, medical packaging, product protection, and packaging applications.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span><\/p>\n<div>\n<form action=\"\/gi\/pages\/mmail.htm\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"get\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">It&#8217;s time to let your creative juices flow! Use multicolored flexible drinking straws to make designs on a piece of construction paper. When you are happy with your composition, glue down the straws. For some added fun, use the straws to play a game of Pick Up Sticks!<\/span><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span><\/p>\n<form action=\"\/gi\/pages\/mmail.htm\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"get\"><\/form>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n<form action=\"\/gi\/pages\/mmail.htm\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"get\"><\/form>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<form action=\"\/gi\/pages\/mmail.htm\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"get\"><\/form>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws. Stone was already a manufacturer of paper cigarette holders. His idea was to make paper drinking straws. Before his straws, beverage drinkers were using the natural rye grass straws. 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