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The bread clip was developed in the early 1950s for a growing need to close plastic bags on the packaging line very efficiently. Manufacturers, using more and more automation in the manufacture and packaging of food, needed methods to raise production volumes and reduce costs.
Floyd Greg Paxton (March 17, 1918 – December 10, 1975 [1]) was a manufacturer of ballbearings during World War II, [2] and later inventor of the bread clip, a notched plastic tag used for sealing bags of bread worldwide.
The bread clip was an incidental finding in this case, but the medical authors of the case noted that plastic bread clips may perforate or obstruct the gastrointestinal tract, and are potentially fatal. The patient in the case study underwent a CT scan, on which the bread clip was not visible, meaning that the clip was radiographically ...
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife.It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
Paxton's own story about how he carved the prototype bread clip from "an expired credit card" is problematical for this reason: In 1952, when he said he did it, credit cards were made of metal (and called "Charge-a plate"). Plastic credit cards didn't arrive on the scene until the late 1950s. You can look this up on Wikipedia.
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