Root Glass Company

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Description

1901-1932
A figure from the 1915 patent for a new design for the Coca-Cola bottle, created by the Root Glass Company. Established by Chapman J. Root in 1901, the Root Glass Company is best known for manufacturing bottles for Coca-Cola, beginning in 1904. Eleven years later, the company designed new bottles for Coca-Cola, the iconic “hobble skirt” design, which was patented the same year. Root sold a variety of soda, mineral water, and beer bottles, as well as fruit jars; the fruit jar factory was sold to Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company in 1908. Root Glass Company was sold to Owens-Illinois Glass Company in 1932.
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