Why are milk cartons designed to look like houses?
Most of our common milk cartons have a“Roof”, liquid packaging box thousands of, why milk cartons used such a design? In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, milk was mostly transported and sold in glass vials. This kind of glass bottle is bulky and fragile, which is not only expensive to transport but also inconvenient to use. In order to change this situation, people invented circular paper milk containers instead of glass bottles. However, this design is not very beautiful, at that time was nicknamed“Paper Bucket”, also not large-scale production and use. Then, in 1911, the design of milk packaging underwent a revolutionary change. John R. van Walmer decided to change the shape of the milk packaging and came up with a rectangular milk carton made from single-sheet cardboard that could be folded and collaged. At that time, milk production, sterilization and filling are not in the same place, square milk cartons can be folded in the process of transport, well to meet this need. In 1915, Walmer added a “Roof” to the milk cartons to make them easier to pour out, and the houselike milk cartons are still in use today.
