![]() The candy-coated gum is, after a 24-to-48 hour The gum is then put aside to "set'' in an air-conditioned Scored stick gum emerges from the rollers, it has also been sprinkled with Of a variety of shapes: stick, candy-coated, ball, pencil, kiss, or square. Shaping and wrapping bubble gum, first sold in 1906, may be set for any one Specialized forming machines to form a ball shape. Gum is scored or extruded into a pencil shape, and then run through Little square or oblong pellets, and broken up by machine. The gum destined for candy coating is scored into The stick gum passes into theĬutting and scoring machines, where it is cut into smaller sheets, each scored Stick gum comes from the thinnest sheets Ĭandy-coated gum, dating back to 1890, from a thicker sheet and bubble orīall gum, from the thickest sheet of all. Of giant rollers which make up the "sheet-rolling machine." There, the gum isįlattened into thinner and thinner sheets, the final thickness determined by From the extruders, the gum passes to a series This it moves to the extruders, machines which manipulate it to make it much The blended gum then passes out of the mixers onto coolingīelts and is bathed in currents of cool air to reduce its temperature. Other gums. The only food coloring in the factory was pink. Before long, the folks at Fleer were marketing Diemer'sĬreation and Diemer himself was teaching cheeky salesmen to blowīubbles, to demonstrate exactly what made this gum different from all One day heĬarried a five-pound glop of the stuff to a grocery store it sold out Was - unexpectedly, crucially - different. In his spare time was playing around with new gum recipes.But this latest brew of Walter Diemer's The Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia what he wound up doing Supposed to be doing, back in 1928, was working as an accountant for ![]() Diemer explained, "and ended up with something withīubbles." And history took one giant pop forward. Just a year or two before he died: "It was an accident." "I was doing Here's what Walter Diemer, the inventor himself,said about it In 1928, bubble gum was invented by a man named Walter E.ĭiemer.
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