Adolf Rambold (5 October 1900 – 14 May 1996) was a
German
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inventor and
engineer
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.
Life
Rambold worked for the German company
Teekanne since 1924. In 1929, he invented the
tea bag
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packing machine called Pompadour. In 1949, being a co-owner of Teepack he invented a modern form of tea bag - bag with 2 chambers which remains the most popular type of the tea bag till now. In the same year he proposed a new tea bag packing machine Constanta which produced 160 bags per minute.
History of Teekanne
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See also
*List of German inventors and discoverers
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This is a list of German inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Germany or German-speaking Europe, and also people of predominantly German heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
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References
External links
Focus.de:Adolf Rambold (German)
* ttp://www.smwa.sachsen.de/set/431/SMWA_AUS_Saechs.Innovationen.pdf Adolf Rambold, in: Sächsische Innovationen (German) 9 April 2013
Patents by Inventor Adolf Rambold
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20th-century German inventors
Engineers from Stuttgart
1900 births
1996 deaths