Makapu emapepa akanyorwa muhumambo hweChina, uko mapepa akagadzirwa muzana remakore rechipiri BC uye aishandiswa pakushumira tii. Akagadzirwa nehukuru nemavara akasiyana, uye akashongedzwa nemagadzirirwo ekushongedza. Humbowo hwemapepa emakapu hunoonekwa mukutsanangurwa kwezvinhu zvemhuri yekwaYu, yekuguta reHangzhou.
Kapu yemazuva ano yepepa yakagadzirwa muzana remakore rechi20. Mukutanga kwezana remakore rechi20, zvaive zvakajairika kuva nemagirazi kana madhipu ekudhibha mvura pamwe chete panzvimbo dzemvura dzakadai sepombi dzechikoro kana madhiramu emvura muzvitima. Kushandiswa uku kwakakonzera matambudziko ehutano hweveruzhinji.
Zvichibva pamatambudziko aya, uye sezvo zvinhu zvepepa (kunyanya mushure mekugadzirwa kweDixie Cup muna 1908) zvakatanga kuwanikwa zvakachipa uye zvakachena, zvirambidzo zvemuno zvakaiswa pakapu yekushandiswa pamwe chete. Imwe yemakambani ekutanga echitima kushandisa makapu epepa anoraswa yaive Lackawanna Railroad, iyo yakatanga kuashandisa muna 1909.
Dixie Cup izita remhando yemakapu epepa anoraswa akagadzirwa kekutanga muUnited States muna 1907 naLawrence Luellen, gweta muBoston, Massachusetts, uyo ainetseka nezvekupararira kwehutachiona nevanhu vanogovana magirazi kana madhipu pamvura yekunwa yeruzhinji.
Mushure mekunge Lawrence Luellen agadzira kapu yake yepepa nechitubu chemvura zvinoenderana nayo, akatanga kambani yeAmerican Water Supply Company yeNew England muna 1908 iri muBoston. Kambani iyi yakatanga kugadzira kapu iyi pamwe neWater Vendor.
Mukombe weDixie wakatanga kunzi "Health Kup", asi kubva muna 1919 wakatumidzwa zita iri kubva mumutsara wezvidhori zvakagadzirwa neDixie Doll Company yaAlfred Schindler muNew York. Kubudirira kwakaita kuti kambani iyi, iyo yaivepo pasi pemazita akasiyana-siyana, izvitumidze kuti Dixie Cup Corporation ndokutamira kufekitori muWilson, Pennsylvania. Pamusoro pefekitori paive netangi guru remvura raive nechimiro chekapu.
Zviri pachena kuti hatinwi kofi kubva mumakapu eDixie nhasi. Ma1930 akaona makapu matsva akabatwa—humbowo hwekuti vanhu vakanga vatoshandisa makapu epepa kunwa zvinopisa. Muna 1933, Ohioan Sydney R. Koons akanyorera chikumbiro chepatenti chemubato wekubatanidza pamakapu epepa. Muna 1936, Walter W. Cecil akagadzira kapu yepepa yaiuya nemibato, zviri pachena kuti yaifanirwa kutevedzera makapu. Kubva kuma1950, pakanga pasina mubvunzo kuti makapu ekofi anoraswa aifungwa nevanhu, sezvo vagadziri vakatanga kuisa mapatent ezvivharo zvaifanirwa kugadzirirwa makapu ekofi. Uye zvino kwakauya Nguva Yegoridhe yekapu yekofi inoraswa kubvira kuma1960.
Nguva yekutumira: Zvita-22-2021
