William Painter
American mechanical engineer and inventor
William Painter (November 20, 1838 – July 15, 1906) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Cork & Seal Company in Baltimore (since evolved to Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company). He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap, also known as the metal bottle cap.2
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Born Nov 20, 1838, died Jul 15, 1906.1
Companies
- Crown HoldingsFounder11
Early life and education
Painter was born in 1838 in Triadelphia, then a mill town in Montgomery County, Maryland to Quakers Dr. Edward Painter and Louisa Gilpin Painter. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1865 to begin a career as a foreman at the Murrill & Keizer's machine shop. He worked with manufacturers to develop a universal neck for all glass bottles and started the Crown Cork & Seal Company of Baltimore in 1892 to manufacture caps that could be used to seal the universal necks. He died in July 1906 at 67.
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Career
Occupation: inventor, designer.4
- Date not recordedFounded Crown Holdings3
Personal life
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