Adolf Rambold (5 October 1900 – 14 May 1996) was a

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and

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Rambold worked for the German company

Teekanne Teekanne GmbH & CO. kg is a German tea trading company, based in Düsseldorf. The founders Rudolf Anders and Eugen Nissle were the first to sell tea in tins and already mixed teas on a high quality level. Furthermore, they went on to inven ...

since 1924. In 1929, he invented the

tea bag A tea bag, or the compound teabag, is a small, porous, sealed bag or packet, typically containing tea leaves or the leaves of other herbs, which is immersed in water to steep and make an infusion. Originally used only for tea ('' Camellia ...

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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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rambold, Adolf 20th-century German inventors Engineers from Stuttgart 1900 births 1996 deaths

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