Inventor

Gerstenzang Leo

Patents indexed

Year range

1929

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Years active

1929

Total patents

Most recent

1929

Domains

consumer_electronicsmechanical

Activity by decade

1920s

Patents

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1 patents, in 1929

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How the First Cotton Swabs Were Mass-Produced

Leo Gerstenzang's 1929 patent for the automated manufacturing of cotton-tipped applicators, the invention that created the modern Q-Tip.

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