The Rise of the European Emperor

Since canned fruit and juice drinks are to be developed as an industry, it is natural to consider the issue of packaging. Therefore, Marin, a half-level "big designer", naturally had to design the packaging shape. It cannot be said to be design, but plagiarism, copying the design of later generations.

However, Marin remembered that many of the cans that seemed to come from later generations were packed in aluminum boxes and sealed with tinplate. This kind of stuff Marin can't imitate and copy, mainly because he doesn't have aluminum cans. As for glass bottle cans, in the 21st century, in order to promote sales, many businesses specially designed cans in the shape of water glasses. In this way, canned food became more popular because the can bottle can be used as a drinking glass after eating canned food. Therefore, this idea is worth learning from.

Therefore, Marin drew the water cup-like canning bottle style that is very popular in later generations. Then, a simple wooden hoop was added to the outside of the bottle, and an inverted "L" wooden handle protruded for the user to hold. In this way, the buyer can use the can bottle as a drinking glass after eating the can. The existence of the wooden handle allows the user to avoid being scalded by the boiling water in the cup.

In fact, the bottle body is still very well "designed", just copy the shape of later generations. But the design of the bottle mouth made it hard for Marin.

The problem is mainly on the cap. In this era, European bottles were still mainly made of wooden corks, rather than the threaded and twisted caps that were popular in later generations.

Marin wanted to design it as a thread-engaging twist cap for later generations, but after talking with the craftsmen, he resolutely gave up this idea. why? It's not that artisans can't make screw-engagement twist caps, but that it's too difficult to make.

In this era, the male and female threads of glass bottles and bottle caps are not made by machines, but by hand. Only craftsmen with high income can create the male and female threads with a high degree of fit, so that the airtightness of the bottle cap can reach the standard. If a random worker came to carve the male and female threads by hand, it would probably not meet the requirements for holding one's breath. In this way, a bottle of canned food is scrapped.

However, if a master craftsman is invited to manually create the male and female threads, the output will be very low and the cost will be high. In this way, it is very uneconomical.

Marin reluctantly gave up the design of the threaded twist cap. In fact, there is no professional machine to make it these days. He was not engaged in industry in his previous life, and he didn't know how to make the threads of bottles and caps, so he could only regret to give up.

Then, the rest can only be designed with a cork...

Adding sealing wax to the cork bottle stopper is a very simple method of sealing, and any temporary worker with ordinary skills can do the work of air-tight sealing. But the biggest problem is - cork does not mess with it!

Portugal's cork trees take 25 years to grow and are harvested, and production is currently limited. Marin's plan is to make canned fruit into national food. The quantity is very large. Portugal's output is really not enough.

Therefore, Marin can only think of using natural rubber to replace cork. The natural rubber stopper, Marin first thought of the rubber stopper on the saline bottle when he was hanging water when he was a child.

That is the memory of a generation. Before Marin crossed, plastic bottles or even plastic bags were used for normal saline. But in the 1990s, hospitals used glass bottles with rubber stoppers to hang water for people.

In addition to using it when fetching water, Marin also used this saline bottle as a hot water bottle when his hands were cold in winter when he was a child. The normal saline bottles in the hospital were used up and discarded. At that time, after hanging the water, many people could take the normal saline bottles back for use.

The saline bottle with the rubber stopper has a super good airtightness. Even if a hole was poked to drain water before, the hole will be closed after the needle is pulled out, preventing the cork from leaking.

Therefore, the saline bottle was used by many people as a hot water bottle for warming hands. It can even be used to warm your feet when you sleep in winter.

The Yangtze River Basin is a very embarrassing place. The winter here is not as severe as in the north, so there is generally no heating system, and there are no heated kangs in the countryside. But when the temperature is below zero in winter, it is also very cold and humid. Therefore, in the 1990s, when sleeping at night, Marin often used a normal saline bottle filled with hot water to put it under the quilt before I warmed it.

Then you can fall asleep. It wasn't until the 21st century that saline bottles were eliminated with the advent of rubber hot water bottles.

With such an experience, Marin has a deep memory of the rubber stopper of the saline bottle. So, without even thinking about it, he "designed" the blueprint of the saline bottle... That was something he grew up with...

But after "designing" the saline bottle, Marin realized a problem - the mouth of the saline bottle was too small...

The mouth of the bottle is too small to fit the pineapple slices. Even if it is put in, it is difficult to take it out and eat it. What? You said you chopped up the pineapple and put it in? It's not impossible, but it lost the original intention of canned fruit - people come to eat fruit, not to eat fruit pomace...

Therefore, canned fruit bottles must not use the bottle mouth design of the saline bottle. However, fruit juice can be packaged in this kind of bottle...

So, with a swipe of his pen, Marin decided on the packaging of the fruit juice—just use a normal saline bottle...

Then, in Marin's mind, the scene of the citizens of the North Sea country drinking juice from hanging water bottles appeared in his mind... Hehe, Marin was so happy to think about it...

Of course, he can only enjoy this fun by himself. Others have never seen a normal saline bottle with hanging water, so they can't get a laugh at all...

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After the music is over, Marin can only continue to "design" the lid of the can. This time it's really a design, because there is nothing to refer to.

Marin wants to continue to use the design of the saline bottle stopper, but the middle bottle stopper is only suitable for the small bottle mouth. Once the bottle mouth is large, the soft rubber is squeezed and easily deformed, resulting in leakage.

"What should I do?" Marin was a little bit blind.

So, he went to the cannery to find inspiration...

Beihai now also has canned food, for example, there is a pickled fish canned processing factory in Beihai. When sealing steamed fish with pickled cabbage, workers often choose a cork that is a little bigger than the mouth of the bottle. In this way, after stuffing it into the mouth of the bottle, the air-tightness can be guaranteed to be good enough. And those processed cork stoppers that are undersized are considered defective products. It is either eliminated, or it is collected and taken elsewhere to be processed into smaller sized stoppers.

In the can packaging workshop, a water cup of the workshop leader aroused his strong interest...

The person in charge of the workshop seems to be a bit of a sucker for the public. For example, the cup he drinks from looks like a can. But the difference is that the canned bottle he used to drink water seems to be an outdated product...

The drinking glass bottle itself is fine, but the cork appears to be a discarded undersized cork. But Hans the workshop head had a brain - he wrapped the undersized cork with a piece of cloth. Then, the cork can stop the bottle mouth and ensure that his water glass does not leak.

Of course, this can only guarantee that there is no water leakage, but it cannot guarantee that there is no air leakage. After all, cloth doesn't have the breath-holding properties of cork.

However, this practice gave Marin great inspiration...

"The cork... the cloth... a good idea..." Marin cried happily.

Of course, he didn't think of wrapping the cork with cloth, but thought - since I can wrap the cork with cloth, why can't I wrap the cork with rubber skin?

He did remember that when he was a child, he had some water glasses. Because of the poor processing precision, many manufacturers put rubber rings in the bottle caps to prevent water leakage.

Similarly, putting a rubber sheath around the cork can also prevent leaks and hold air.

Moreover, he suddenly thought - if a rubber sheath is added to the cork, then the bottle stopper does not necessarily need to use expensive and rare cork. He could have used an ordinary cork of about the same size, and then put a rubber sheath on the ordinary cork. In this way, air-tightness and leakage prevention can also be guaranteed. Moreover, it successfully avoided the weakness that the rubber cork cannot be enlarged.

Thinking of this, Marin was extremely excited. With the rubber holster, he doesn't have to worry about going to Portugal to find cork. That pitiful cork has a growth cycle of 25 years. Moreover, after peeling the cork bark, it takes another nine to ten years to peel it again (cork is processed from the bark of the cork tree).

Suddenly, the rhythm of Eason Chan's "Ten Years" sounded magically in Ma Lin's mind-"Ten years later, I will peel the bark again, peel your bark..."

"What the hell, it takes ten years to peel off the skin, enough for me to plant a lot of rubber trees!"

Marin stopped thinking about cork and went on with his rubber stoppers. And because the demand for rubber corks and rubber cork holsters will definitely be great in the future, Marin decided to expand the planting area of ​​rubber trees again...