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After Lucius Sheffield studies dentistry in Paris and sees artists using metal paint tubes, he champions the idea for toothpaste packaging. Today, capped empty tubes ride a conveyor under a nozzle that dispenses measured paste, leaving space for sealing before the tube is ready to be squeezed.","How Does the Toothpaste Get into the  \nTube? Veena Prasad  \nThe year was 18 70 .New London, Connecticut, United States. 7 am . Kids were tumbling out of bed, their mothers hurrying them to clean their teeth, handing them tooth sticks and jars of toothpaste.  \nWhat? Did I just say – ”Toothsticks”? That’s right. They used toothsticks to clean their teeth back in 18 70 .A toothstick was simply a twig with a frayed end. Some lucky kids had twigs with boar hair tied to one end for that extra shine.  \nAnd what was that other thing I said?”Jars of toothpaste”? That’s right. Toothpaste tubes were not invented yet. They only had jars. And every bleary eyed kid started her day by dipping a toothstick into a porcelain jar filled with toothpaste.  \nActually, into the same porcelain jar that every other member of the family dipped their toothstick into. Including that visiting grand aunt with yellow and black teeth, whose toothstick matched her teeth.  \nOne morning, a disgusted cry went up in a dentist’s house.”Ewwwwwwwwww!” It was Dr. Sheffield’s son Lucius, who refused to dip into the jar anymore and decided to use tooth powder henceforth. But a thought remained in his mind – there must be a better way to use toothpaste.  \nA few years later, Lucius went to Paris to study the science of dentistry. There, he saw artists squeezing paint from metal tubes onto their paintbrushes. Why couldn’t the same type of tube be used to hold toothpaste?! He rushed back home and shared this idea with his father, who thought that it was just totally awesome .  \nToday, toothpaste tubes are filled using machines. All the empty tubes are lined upon a conveyer belt with their caps downwardsand the unsealed end pointing up. A big container filled with toothpaste is fixed above the conveyor belt.  \nFrom a nozzle at the bottom of the container, the toothpaste is let into each of these tubes as they move along the conveyor belt. But the paste is not filled all the way to the brim. About half an inch is left so that it can be sealed. 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