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The American Albert L. Jones is the father of corrugated board. Jones is said to have discovered the idea while manufacturing neck ruffs and frills on a pleating machine, and instead of using fabric he put paper through the milling cylinders to produce an elastic packaging material. In December 1871 he was granted
a patent.
In 1874 the American Oliver Long achieved a considerable improvement by gluing a fluted sheet of corrugating medium onto a linerboard, thus creating single face corrugated board.
During the following years American manufacturers concen-
trated mainly on the development of new machinery. In 1882 Robert H. Thompson (USA) received the patent for double face - single wall - corrugated board. His company, the Thompson and Norris Society, also developed the first mechanically driven single facer with which the first three European corrugated board plants were equiped.
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Single face corrugated board
Double face or single wall corrugated board |
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