Jacques E. BrandenbergerAKA Jacques Edwin BrandenbergerBorn: 19-Oct-1872Birthplace: Zurich, SwitzerlandDied: 13-Jul-1954Location of death: Zurich, SwitzerlandCause of death: unspecifiedGender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteOccupation: Chemist
Jacques E. Brandenberger invented cellophane in 1908, made from wood cellulose and originally intended as a coating to make cloth more resistant to staining. After several years of further research and, refinements, and construction of a machine to make the thin, transparent film, he began production of cellophane in 1920
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.
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.
In 1917 Brandenberger assigned his patents to
La Cellophane Societe Anonyme and joined that organization.
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.
Dr. Jacques E.
Brandenberger was born in Zurich,
Switzerland in
1872 and died there in 1954.
Dr. Brandenberger was working as a textile
engineer when he had the idea of inventing a clear, waterproof, protective
layer for cloth. This idea came to him while
out to dinner one night when he saw a waiter having to replace the tablecloth
at a nearby table because someone had spilled their wine.
By 1912, Dr. Brandenberger had also invented a
machine for the production of cellophane on a large scale.
In fact, it was a stained tablecloth that led to the transparent food protector - cellophane.
One day in 1900, Dr. Jacques E. Brandenberger was sitting in a cafe in his native Switzerland, when a hapless customer spilled a glass of wine. That fateful accident would change the landscape of food service forever.
While watching the waiter change the tablecloth, Brandenberger had an idea - a stain-resistant tablecloth. He wasn't sure how he'd accomplish it, but it seemed logical to apply a waterproof, flexible coating that would make the tablecloth stainproof.
Brandenberger had failed to find a waterproof tablecloth, but had instead invented a clear, flexible, plastic coating.
In 1923 La Cellophane reached an agreement with DuPont to allow that company to market Cellophane in the United States as a flexible covering for food.
The first use of this new plastic film was in gas masks.
In 1917 Brandenberger gave his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme and joined that organization.
By 1938, cellophane sales accounted for 25 percent of DuPont's annual profit.
Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist
Jacques E. Brandenberger
while employed by Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon. Inspired by
seeing a wine spill on a restaurant's tablecloth, he decided to create a
cloth that could repel liquids rather than absorb them.
His first step
was a waterproof spray coating made of viscose. The coated fabric was
stiff, but the clear film easily separated from the backing cloth, and
he abandoned his original idea in favor of the new filmy material.
It took ten years for Brandenberger to
improve the film by adding glycerin
en the material. By 1912 he
had a machine to manufacture the film, which he had named Cellophane,
from the words cellulose and diaphane ("transparent"). Cellophane was
patented that year. The following year, Comptoir des Textiles
Artificiels (CTA) bought the Thaon firm's interest in Cellophane and
established Brandenberger in a new company, La Cellophane.
Whitman's candy
company first used cellophane in 1912
for wrapping
their "Whitman's Sampler."
DuPont built the first cellophane plant in
the U.S.
Jacques E. Brandenberger was employed as a textile engineer. He got the idea for cellophane at a restaraunt when a waiter spilled an order on the table and had to change the tablecloth.
Who invented Cellophane?
Cellophane was invented by Jacques E Brandenberger in 1908. He was a swiss chemist and textile worker at Blanchisserie Teinturerie de Thaon.
Cellophane is produced by dissolving wood pulp or other cellulose material in an alkali with carbon disulfide, neutralizing the alkaline solvent with an acid, extruding the precipitate into a sheet, impregnating it with glycerine, and then drying and cutting the sheets to the desired size.
Cellophane was invented about 1910 by the Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger (1873?–1954), who in 1912 invented the first machines for large-scale production and established a factory near Paris.
Invented in 1908, cellophane came from Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger's
desire to create a clear, flexible, waterproof
film that could be applied to cloth.
Jacques
Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist, was not trying to make something to cover your pork chops
in 1908. He worked in a French textile firm and was looking for a way to make a stain
proof tablecloth.
It took him ten years to
develop a machine that would produce what he named cellophane.
Cellophane became available to the public in 1919. In 1927 a
waterproof lacquer coating was developed that made it more useful. With the lacquer
coating, cellophane could be used to package food, since it was airtight and waterproof.
Cellophane was invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist. Up until the early 1920s, if an American businesses wanted to use the wrap they had to import it from Europe. DuPont acquired U.S. patent rights for cellophane in 1923 and, a year later, built the first cellophane manufacturing plant in the country.
cellophane, a thin film of regenerated cellulose, usually transparent, employed primarily as a packaging material. For many years after World War I, cellophane was the only flexible, transparent plastic film available for use in such common items as food wrap and adhesive tape.
Cellophane emerged from a series of efforts conducted during the late 19th century to produce artificial materials by the chemical alteration of cellulose
cellophane,
a thin film of regenerated cellulose, usually transparent, employed primarily as a packaging material. For many years after World War I, cellophane was the only flexible, transparent plastic film available for use in such common items as food wrap and adhesive tape.
Cellophane emerged from a series of efforts conducted during the late 19th century to produce artificial materials by the chemical alteration of cellulose,