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Disposable pads had their start with nurses using their wood pulp bandages to absorb their menstrual flow, creating a pad that was made from easily obtainable materials and inexpensive enough to throw away after use. [25] Kotex's first advertisement for products made with this wood pulp (cellucotton) appeared in January 1921. [18]
An 1898 patent by Jerome B. Dillon for a new type of umbilical bandage used an "antiseptic, absorbent cotton pad" to carry out its function. [9] In 1937, Joseph A. Voss invented a machine which unraveled rolls of cotton and cut them at a fixed interval into cotton pads, [10] starting the
Tampax appeared in 1936. Belts were needed until the 1970 introduction of Stayfree by Personal Products Co. and New Freedom Pads by Kimberly-Clark. New Freedom is a former brand in the Kotex family. New Freedom was one of the first beltless pads manufactured in the early 1970s.
[1] These shoulder pads were sewn into the players' jerseys rather than being worn as a separate piece of equipment. [2] Allegedly Pop Warner was the first to have his players wear shoulder pads. [3] When he was coaching at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, he was the first one to use pads made of fiber rather than cotton. [4]
Leather buckles were used to bind the pad to the leg. These natural material pads were quite heavy. By contrast, modern day pads are now made from durable and ultra light synthetic materials such as PVC for the outer and polyesters for the lining. Most pads use three velcro fastening straps making them easily adjustable and removable.
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This time, the shoulder line was usually continuous from outer edge to neck, without the dip toward the center seen in the 1940s, and the pads used, even when enormous, were much lighter and held their shape better than the ones used in the 1940s, [119] now most often made of foam and other lightweight, well-shaped, moldable materials. [120]
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