Lady in a Machine Shop: Margaret E. Knight

Margaret E. Knight was conceived in York, Maine in1838. Margaret was extremely inspired by instruments and hardware even as a little youngster. Lady in that period were not viewed as precisely slanted or to be keen on machinery.â Children particularly were not thought to be innovative enough to design things. Margaret, in any case, started creating things at a youthful age and had her first achievement right off the bat throughout everyday life. She saw an awful mishap at the cotton plant where she and her siblings worked. Numerous individuals had attempted throughout the years to make the weavers for the laborers however nobody had thought of a thought that worked. Margaret go through a really long time making a more secure structure for the loom piece being referred to and at the youthful age of 12 she had her first working creation. The secured transport she designed is still being used on cotton lingers today. In 1868, Margaret moved to Massachusetts and started working at the Columbia Paper Bag Company. Paper packs around then were envelope molded and held shut by having twine or string folded over them. Square base packs were infrequently utilized in light of the fact that they must be made by hand and were over the top expensive. Margaret concluded that there was unquestionably opportunity to get better and set about attempting to make a machine that would cut, crease and glue square bottoms packs without anyone else. This would make the sacks significantly less costly to create and accomplish crafted by numerous individuals with just one machine. She worked days at the Columbia Paper Bag Company and keeping in mind that she worked, she considered the machines that were in presence there as of now. Around evening time, she took her thoughts home and went through hours building and revamping models of a machine she thought would make a superior paper pack machine. It required some investment and a gigantic measure of work to get what she needed from theâ machine. She tried and balanced and changed things in the arrangement until it was exactly what she needed. When the structure of the machine was great, she employed somebody to make the real machine for her. The models had not been exceptionally durable and she needed one made of iron that would hold up to an entire days work. While Margaret was doing this, a man named Charles Annan took her thought and had a patent put on it under his own name. Margaret had placed a lot of work into this machine and was not going to sit by and let another person assume the praise for it. She prosecuted Charles Annan over taking her thought and her patent. Charles Annan was sure that he could win by persuading the appointed authority that no lady got apparatus and could always be unable to structure and manufacture a machine sufficiently complex to make square base paper sacks. Charles Annan thought little of Margaret Knight and it cost him the court fight. Margaret got every one of her drawings, plans and models of the machine. She clarified how it functioned and why it would improve the strategy as of now utilized. Her insight and documentation demonstrated to the adjudicator that she was the legitimate proprietor of the structure and the machine. Margaret got her patent for the paper sack in 1870. She helped to establish the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870 too and set her creation to work. She is known as the Queen of Paper Bags and her innovation is utilized right up 'til today, alongside the structure she made for the square base paper sack. References: Label Brill, M. (2001) Margaret Knight Girl Inventor Factory stream