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Posted on 10/9/14 at 11:59 am to tgrbaitn08
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The original version was "duck tape" and was in use in 1902, in the 1950s it was starting to be used in HVAC work and acquired the name "duct" tape.
The original version was "duck tape" and was in use in 1902, in the 1950s it was starting to be used in HVAC work and acquired the name "duct" tape.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 11:59 am to tgrbaitn08
I AM CALM, DAMMIT
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:00 pm to tgrbaitn08
Great recurring joke in the movie It's a Disaster. Available on Netflix.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:01 pm to TH03
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keyword: was
it is marketed and sold as duct tape. duck tape is a brand.
go read the wiki article on it. It was Duck tape first and still is. Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:02 pm to CarRamrod
are you referring to the wiki article titled "duct tape"?
duck tape is a trademarked term for one brand.
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In 1975, Kahl rebranded the duct tape made by his company. Because the previously used generic term "duck tape" had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand "Duck Tape" and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo.
duck tape is a trademarked term for one brand.
This post was edited on 10/9/14 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:03 pm to CarRamrod
That's cool how duck tape started off for repairing or strengthening clothing, and now it is clothing!
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:06 pm to Clyde Tipton
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As in "air duct" tape...
Which, ironically, is not a recommended use. It was duck tape long before post-WWII when it became marketed as duct tape. The answer is both are correct.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:07 pm to CarRamrod
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During World War II, Revolite, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used as sealing tape on ammunition cases during World War II.[1]
Per the wiki article, to which you are referring.
ETA, I had to look up what duck cloth was.
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Cotton duck (from Dutch: doek, "linen canvas"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. Duck canvas differs from plain canvas in that the threads in the former are more tightly woven. There is also linen duck, which is less often used.
This post was edited on 10/9/14 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:08 pm to LSUsmartass
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People are fricking idiots, why argue?
THIS. IS. THE INTERNET.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:08 pm to htownjeep
they are not both correct. duck tape is trademarked for one brand. it's like calling a dr pepper "coke".
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:10 pm to TH03
quote:in other words. No other company branded duck tap so he did.
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In 1975, Kahl rebranded the duct tape made by his company. Because the previously used generic term "duck tape" had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand "Duck Tape" and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo.
duck tape is a trademarked term for one brand.
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The Revolite division of Johnson & Johnson made medical adhesive tapes from duck cloth, beginning in 1927. During World War II, a team headed by Revolite's Johnny Denoye and Johnson & Johnson's Bill Gross developed a new adhesive tape for the US military, intended to seal ammunition cases against moisture.[11] The tape was required to be ripped by hand, not cut with scissors. According to Johnson & Johnson, the idea came from an ordnance-factory worker—and mother of two Navy sailors—named Vesta Stoudt, who worried that problems with ammunition-box seals would cost soldiers precious time in battle. She wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 with the idea to seal the boxes with a fabric tape, which she had tested at her factory. The letter was forwarded to the War Production Board, who put Johnson & Johnson on the job.[12] Their new unnamed product was made of thin cotton duck tape coated in waterproof polyethylene (plastic) with a layer of rubber-based gray adhesive ("Polycoat") bonded to one side.[6][13][14][15][16][17] It was easy to apply and remove, and was soon adapted to repair military equipment quickly, including vehicles and weapons.[13] This tape, colored in army-standard matte olive drab, was nicknamed "duck tape" by the soldiers.[18] Various theories have been put forward for the nickname, including the descendant relation to cotton duck fabric, the waterproof characteristics of a duck bird, and even the 1942 amphibious military vehicle DUKW which was pronounced "duck".[19]
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After the war, the duck tape product was sold in hardware stores for household repairs. The Melvin A. Anderson Company of Cleveland, Ohio, acquired the rights to the tape in 1950.[14] It was commonly used in construction to wrap air ducts.[18] Following this application, the name "duct tape" came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork. Specialized heat- and cold-resistant tapes were developed for heating and air-conditioning ducts. By 1960 a St. Louis, Missouri, HVAC company, Albert Arno, Inc., trademarked the name "Ductape" for their "flame-resistant" duct tape, capable of holding together at 350–400 °F (177–204 °C).[20]
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:10 pm to tgrbaitn08
duktape
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:11 pm to TH03
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they are not both correct. duck tape is trademarked for one brand. it's like calling a dr pepper "coke".
No, there is indeed Duck tape. There is also duct tape. It depends on what you are using at the time if you want to be a stickler.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:11 pm to yankeeundercover
Bird-hesive
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:12 pm to TH03
quote:not really
they are not both correct. duck tape is trademarked for one brand. it's like calling a dr pepper "coke".
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:12 pm to CarRamrod
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in other words. No other company branded duck tap so he did.
you can try to dismiss it, but this means one company is known as duck tape due to the trademark. saying you call it duck tape because that's what its nickname used to be doesn't change anything. colloquial terms =/= official name.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:13 pm to TH03
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TH03
Just curious, what do you call this tape?
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:14 pm to TH03
quote:nickname? did you not read this?
you can try to dismiss it, but this means one company is known as duck tape due to the trademark. saying you call it duck tape because that's what its nickname used to be doesn't change anything. colloquial terms =/= official name.
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After the war, the duck tape product was sold in hardware stores for household repairs.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:14 pm to upgrayedd
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His momma call him Clay, Imma call him Clay
Rocky Marciano would have kicked his arse...
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