
Bubble Wrap
9 months ago
I feel bad uploading this because it portrays Jake as a naive four year old with no common sense. He's a simpleton, but maybe that's why I would die for him.
JakeAndAmir.com
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spit that fire.
Bubble Wrap was invented in the late 60's, originally intended at a wall covering. When one of the guys working on it realized that it could be used to protect shipments and they stopped smoking enough to realize that BW as wallpaper would suck, its use as packaging was born.
To make it they extrude a thin layer of plastic (varying thickness and mixture of plastics to change the qualities of the wrap) and send it over a large cylinder with holes in it that are the size of the bubbles. The holes each have a vacuum to draw the film into the cavities. As that formed film leaves the cylinder it is laminated to a second sheet of plastic, thus trapping or 'sealing' the air inside. Hence, we get the name of the company that first created it, Sealed Air Corp.
Btw, rolling over a bunch of bubble wrap with a fork truck is wildly entertaining.
I can't believe that they had that idea for a *wallpaper*... wouldn't it be a super-temporary wallpaper, because people would pop the bubbles?
As for the wallpaper idea, I still can't figure out why they thought that would be a good idea. Sometimes smart people can be really stupid lol.
Great is such a funny word.
oh and i want to see Amir Freestyle. why oh why did you tell him to stop?!?!?!?!?
"Bubble Wrap manufacturing starts as polyethylene resin, in the form of beads about the size of pea gravel. The beads go into an extruder - a long cylinder with a screw inside that runs its entire length. As the screw is turned, heat builds up and the resin melts into a liquid that is squeezed out of the cylinder into two stacked sheets of clear plastic film. One layer of the film is wrapped around a drum with holes punched in it, and suction is applied drawing one web of film into the holes that form the bubbles. The second layer of film is then laminated over the first so that when the two films are joined, they stick together and trap the air in the bubbles."
Source: virtual-bubblewrap.com/how.shtml
I'm not trying to be any more of a dick than I already am, but I just get a little tired of seeing everybody go absolutely nuts over anything and everything that Jake & Amir do.