"Toilet paper"

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Toilet paper is a paper product used for sanitary and hygienic purposes. Available in roll or sheet form.

Features
Toilet paper today is made of special paper for sanitary and hygienic purposes, the raw materials for which are usually waste paper and cellulose.

Among other types of pulp and paper products, specially produced toilet paper stands out:
stains (perforation), facilitating the separation of sheets from the remaining roll;
high hygroscopicity;
low mechanical strength and low content of binders;
absence or low content of substances that prevent the destruction of paper under the influence of water and other factors.
For SGI, different properties are key. Important properties of toilet paper include softness (volume and surface), strength and water solubility. Hygroscopicity is not a key property for toilet paper, neither from the point of view of the manufacturer nor from the point of view of the consumer. The quality of toilet paper varies from country to country.

History

The first use of paper for sanitary and hygienic purposes began in China. The earliest mention of this refers to 589 AD. Evidence from 851 confirms that toilet paper was widely used in China and was made using rice straw. And by 1393, 720 thousand sheets of toilet paper (61x91 cm) were annually supplied to the imperial court, as well as 15,000 square (with a side of 7.62 cm) sheets of special - thick, soft flavored light yellow - for the emperor's family.

In 1857, a New York businessman released toilet paper, sliced in neat squares and packed in packs. He was so proud of his invention that he printed his name on every leaf. The package contained 500 sheets and cost 50 cents.

In many countries, people used typographic paper instead of special toilet paper. In the United States, advertising catalogs sent by mail were reused. In 1919, it was produced with a predetermined hole for hanging in the toilet.

On July 25, 1871, Seth Wheeler of Albany, USA, was granted patent No. 177355 for packaging paper in rolls with a perforated tear line. The same idea was later used for toilet paper.

Seth Wheeler formed the Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Company and in 1877 began selling perforated toilet paper in rolls.

In the UK, the production of toilet paper in perforated rolls began in 1879 under the leadership of Walter Alcock. In 1883, Seth Wheeler also invented perforated toilet paper, in a roll, with a central cardboard sleeve (patent No. 272369). In 1885, patent No. 333183 was registered for a roll of toilet paper with improved perforation. In the same year a convenient holder for toilet paper was patented. Until then, mostly unperforated toilet paper was used in rolls. For her slicing pre