On this day in 1881 John H. Crowell was granted the patent for TOOTH PICK. U.S. Patent No. 237,093.
This invention relates to improvements in tooth-picks in which the pick, composed of quill, whalebone, or other elastic material, held by a holder, slides within a case; and the improvements are first, to provide a holder that will hold a small pick practically secure and still; and second, by having the picks small, to provide within a convenient tooth-pick case a receptacle for them.
