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Tap ex is the label name for correction foils and - liquid to the correction of typing errors when using typewriters.
The company tap Ex was created 1959 by Otto W. Carl in Frankfurt/Main, business purpose was the production of a correction foil of the same name. The product became fast popular and found so large spreading at home and abroad that the label name was established "tap ex "in the colloquial use as Synomym and term monopoly on write error correction aids.
Starting from 1965 also a liquid correction aid under the name was sold "tap ex ", which served mainly for the cover of write errors during the preparation of handwriting. The sales of the same product under the name "C-fluid "by the same manufacturer could not prevent the public perception of a quasi-monopoly on this area seriously.
Invented however tap ex became von Bette Graham. She worked at the beginning of the fifties as a secretary at the bank "Texas bank and Trust" in Dallas. Like many of their colleagues it had problems with the electrical IBM typewriter. And with the typing errors. The idea of the hobby artist was simple, but ingenious. It over-painted mistyped letters or words with lacquer, pustete and wrote again over it.
Since in the liquid "tap ex "with some consumers doubt released used chlorine-organic solvents 1,1,1-Trichlorethan regarding health risks, also a water-soluble variant was produced later and driven out.
Starting from 1992 tap ex manufactured also correcting ribbons, starting from 1998 also correction pins.
Since 1997 tap ex is in the possession of the BIC Group.
The label name should be world-wide according to data of the manufacturing firm the tenth-most well-known German label name.
A nearly skurrile use found tap ex paper in bird course experiments at the Goethe university in Frankfurt/Main. In order to find out, whether birds exhibited course unrest it was set, it in the working group Emlentrichter so by Professor Wolfgang Wiltschko into mentioned, which were covered with a windowpane lined with tap ex paper and above. The birds tried to jump the smooth walls of the funnel upward and left thereby scratch marks on the paper. Since the funnels were aligned set up after directions, a preferential way flight direction could be determined at the scratch marks (it by the way actually gives and in the autumn and in the spring is opposite).
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