Leaf facing forward or backwards? The world is divided when it is time to answer this question, but the inventor of the roll-bored toilet paper as we know it has resolved the debate 13 years ago.
The world has long discussed the correct form – if there is indeed one – to place the toilet paper on the metal support attached to the wall: with the roller end facing forward or backwards.
For both sides, the choice is simple; Others get the roll anyway. Is it a matter of aesthetics? Is it hygiene?
Inventor Seth Wheeler has already resolved this long debate in 1891, when he patented an innovative version of roll -shaped perforated toilet paper.
The official illustration attached to the Google Patents file, leaves no room for doubt: the paper is clearly designed to come out over the roll – that is, with the sheet ready to rip turning forward. This would be how the inventor of the toilet paper wanted us to hang him.
Patent for Seth Wheeler’s modern toilet paper, he refers to 1891.
Leader of Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Company, Wheeler had already recorded the concept of pierced paper in 1871, but in 1891 reformulated it in roll form with a goal in mind: waste.
“Many devices designed to avoid waste were patented; but all efforts in this regard have been separated from the paper roll, that is, in the construction of rollers, endowed with the roller to prevent the roll from unfolding freely and causing the leaves to separate individually into their connection points,” whether wrote in his patent. “My improved roll can be used in simpler supports.”
