Flat-bottomed paper bag
Bolsa de papel de fondo plano
- Date
- 1871 · confidence high
- Place
- Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Margaret E. Knight
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A square-bottomed kraft-paper bag, mass-produced by a machine that cuts, folds and glues the paper; it replaced cone-shaped wrappers as a way to carry goods.
The first mass-produced paper bags date to 1852 (Francis Wolle); Margaret Knight patented in 1871 the machine that gave them a self-standing square bottom.
What it led to
- Standardization of the shopping bag
- The paper packaging and wrapping industry
Built on
- Cone-shaped paper bag (Francis Wolle, 1852)