Adolf Rambold

German inventor and engineer (1900-1996)

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Adolf Rambold
Born	(1900-10-05)5 October 1900 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died	14 May 1996(1996-05-14) (aged 95) Meerbusch, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation(s)	Inventor, engineer

Adolf Rambold (5 October 1900 – 14 May 1996) was a German inventor and engineer.

Life

Rambold worked for the German company Teekanne since 1924. In 1929, he invented the tea bag 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.^[1]^[2]

References

^ WDR:14. Mai 1996 – Teebeutel-Entwickler Adolf Rambold stirbt:Aroma aus der Doppelkammer (German)
^ History of Teekanne

External links

Focus.de:Adolf Rambold (German) Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
WDR:14. Mai 1996 – Teebeutel-Entwickler Adolf Rambold stirbt:Aroma aus der Doppelkammer (German)
Adolf Rambold, in: Sächsische Innovationen (German)^{[permanent dead link]}; 9 April 2013
Patents by Inventor Adolf Rambold