Tom Martin owned a company called “Condes Corporation” which among other things built egg carton printers. These machines would allow egg producers to print over a hundred egg cartons per minute on the inside cover, outside cover and outside edge of the carton.
Condes had a near-monopoly on egg carton printers in the 1970s and 80s. At one time, nearly 90% of the cartons for eggs sold in the United States were printed on a Condes machine.
One reason Condes was so successful in this business is that no competitor machines could come close to printing egg cartons as quickly as the Condes machine. And much of that speed was due to two of Tom’s inventions, for which he received U.S. Patents.
Egg Carton Denester
One of Tom’s inventions is the “egg carton denester,” pronounced dee-NESS-ter. This mechanism fed egg cartons into the printer at high speeds. Tom received Patent 4,048,915 for his invention on April 4, 1976.
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