Editing Carton (section)

==Packaging history==
<blockquote>Robert Gair was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s. While he was printing an order of seed bags, a metal rule normally used to crease bags shifted in position and cut the bag. Gair concluded that cutting and creasing paperboard in one operation would have advantages; the first automatically made carton, now referred to as "semi-flexible packaging", was created.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/cdfs-133|title=A History of Packaging|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125191820/https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/cdfs-133|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

;Folded carton
In 1817, the first commercial cardboard box production began in England.<ref name="auto"/> In 1879, [[Robert Gair]], in Brooklyn, New York, operated a factory that die-ruled, cut, and scored [[paperboard]] into a single impression of a folded carton.<ref name="auto"/> By 1896, the [[Nabisco|National Biscuit Company]] was the first to use cartons to package [[Cracker (food)|crackers]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The packaging designer's book of patterns|date=11 July 2000|publisher=Bilimsel Eserler|isbn=9780471385042|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLhcx5ZZHUkC&q=Robert+Gairfolding+carton&pg=PA16|access-date=10 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810034025/https://books.google.com/books?id=RLhcx5ZZHUkC&q=Robert+Gairfolding+carton&pg=PA16|url-status=live}}</ref>

<blockquote>During the first decade of the 1900s, G. W. Maxwell developed the first paper milk carton.<ref name="auto1"/></blockquote>

;Milk carton
In 1908, Dr. Winslow, of Seattle, Washington, described paper [[milk]] containers that were commercially sold in [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]] as early as 1906.<ref name="ift.org" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://karlasullivandotcom.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/the-best-chocolate-drinks/ |website=Karla Sullivan |publisher=Lifetime Chicago |access-date=6 May 2021 |language=en |date=26 December 2019 |quote=(Photo) Bordens Dutch Chocolate |last1=Sullivan |first1=Karla Sullivan |title=The best chocolate drinks |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506111514/https://karlasullivandotcom.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/the-best-chocolate-drinks/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The inventor of this carton was G.W. Maxwell.<ref name="ift.org" /> Later, in 1915 John Van Wormer of Toledo, Ohio, received the a [[patent]] for the gable-topped, wax-coated, "paper bottle," a folded blank box for holding milk, calling it the "Pure-Pak."<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506095118/https://www.elopak.com/usa/about/history/ |archive-date=6 May 2021  |title=History |url=https://www.elopak.com/usa/about/history/ |website=Elopak |access-date=6 May 2021 |quote=1915 Patent for the gable-topped Pure-Pak granted 1936 First machines installed in US market}}</ref> The milk carton could be folded, glued, filled with milk, and sealed at a dairy farm.<ref>{{cite book|title=Food packaging: principles and practice|date=22 September 2005|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780849337758|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFRR6GayR74C&q=John+Van+Wormer+inventor+of+milk+carton&pg=PA117|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=29 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929180538/https://books.google.com/books?id=NFRR6GayR74C&q=John+Van+Wormer+inventor+of+milk+carton&pg=PA117|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1953, Seok-kyun Shin introduced the gable-topped milk carton to Korea.<ref name="yonsei">[https://annals.yonsei.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1860 Hence, the Edison of Korea, Doctor Shin Seok-kyun, suggested creating packages that would store milk for a prolonged time] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418130538/http://annals.yonsei.ac.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1860 |date=18 April 2021 }}.</ref> In the 1960s, Mario Lepore, a Detroit engineer designed a machine to fold and seal a gable top paper carton.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In 1957 paper milk carton company [[John W. Kieckhefer|Kieckhefer Container Co.]] merged with the [[Weyerhauser]] Timber Company of [[Tacoma, Washington]].{{Citation_needed|date=July 2019}}