Today in History: Milk Glass Bottles Appear

On April 8, 1879, the United States began selling milk for the first time using glass bottles, which is not only convenient but also more hygienic. Due to the short shelf life of milk, consumers quickly run out of glass bottles and return them to the market, or return the bottle when the milk is delivered by milk. The loss of the bottle, the cost of returning the bottle to the bottle-making plant, and the scrubbing and disinfection of the bottle ultimately resulted in the discard of the loading of the glass bottle. In addition, fresh milk bottles and unwashed empty bottles are transported in a truck, which also raises concerns about the health of the milk in the dairy and consumers.

Before that, people used a variety of containers to hold milk. The seller pulls the milk out of the keg or bucket first, and then puts it into the kettle, barrel and other containers that the buyer carries. In order to make the sale of milk more hygienic, some milk factories began to use fruit canned milk, which also makes many users began to carry re-packaged containers to buy milk.

The Echo Farms Dairy first launched a glass bottle for milk in New York and began shipping from Connecticut. Other merchants were initially jealous of the cost of bottle damage, and some consumers were not used to this container that looked like a medicine bottle.

However, this milk loading method eventually became popular. By the first decade of the 20th century, some cities had legally required the use of glass bottles for milk delivery.

There are many types of design for early glass bottles, including the use of metal rings to connect the stopper design, like the glass bottles currently used by some European specialty wineries.

　　 All of this led to the birth of disposable containers. The earliest waxing containers appeared in the 1890s. They had simple boxes, cylindrical shapes, and pyramid shapes with the top removed. There were even people who imitated and created traditional circles. Shaped glass bottle shape.

But the really popular thing was the rectangular column milk bottle that appeared in the 1940s. The top of the bottle was a pull-up, round, small lid design that was very light, strong, and occupies only a small space for delivery vans. By the 1950s, it was replaced by a top-milk cartridge, which was actually registered in 1915.

Glass bottle milk loading method is currently only applicable to some special needs markets, and the way of domestic milk delivery has also become history. Nowadays, almost all milk in the United States is sold using top-type milk cartons or plastic milk cartons.