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Bread Slicer

The bread slicer was invented by a man named Otto Frederick Rohwedder. He lived in Davenport, Iowa at the time. His first prototype was built in 1912, but it was destroyed in a fire. He did not have a working machine completed until more than a decade later, in 1928.

The Chillicothe Baking Company was the first to commercially use the bread slicer. As their name hints, they were located in a town called Chillicothe, in Missouri. July 7, 1928 was the exact date that they first produced sliced bread with the device. Their sliced bread product was an immediate success.

The next important step of the bread slicer had to do with the post-slice wrapping. The individual slices were not kept together after being sliced long enough for the loaf to be wrapped. A man named Gustav Papendick was the one who overcame this obstacle through the use of a cardboard tray.

 

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