Crown cork bottle cap
Chapa corona
- Date
- 1892 · confidence high
- Place
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Credited to
- William Painter (Crown Cork & Seal)
- People
- 👤 William Painter1838–1906
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Toothed metal cap with a cork liner that seals carbonated drinks airtight. It made the industrial bottling of soft drinks and beer possible.
Painter was a mentor to King Gillette and suggested to him the idea of the disposable consumable.
What it led to
- Bottled soft drinks (Coca-Cola) and distributed beer
- Automatic bottling machines
- Bottle openers and bar culture
Built on
- Moulded glass bottle
- Metal stamping
Made possible
- Coca-Cola1886
- Automatic bottling machine
- Bottle opener