REFILL Dearfriends,
Ilooked in to the meaning of the word –refill. In Google search I found the meaning as filling a container again.However by practice if we go and ask for a refill in a stationery shop, he willshow different types of cartridges for ballpoint pens. An interesting look into refills with nostalgic memories. Gopalakrishnan23-2-2024. 1. Inkpen and refilling cartridges. Irecollect during my college days there were ink pens which had cartridges. Outerbody of pen was removed from the neck andthe cartridge with neck and nib was dipped in to ink bottle and body slightlypressed. From the bottle ink was sucked to cartridge. These pens were morecostly and leak proof. 2. Ballpoint pens and refills. Whenball point pens became very common in 1962’s , and most persons started usingball pens by 1970’s, it was not desired for writing cheques for long time. When most people started writing with ballpoints, somehow cheques were also started writing with ball pens, banks startedpermitting cheques written with ball pens. I made a Google search, I could notget any such date. However I can tell one thing. In telecom department greenink was used by Gazetted officers to write and draw money by cheques till 1991. 3.Costly ball pens and refills. Ballpointpens were costly, it was a practice to purchase 3-4 refills suited to the penalong with pens. By the time the refills exhausted somehow the pens got damagedand now ball pens were purchased. Ball Pensappeared with cap, without cap and pressing top protrusion to enable cartridge appearingfor writing, another pressing with drawing tip of cartridge, ball pens similarto pencil with cap etc. 4. Costof cartridge At onetime cost of cartridge became almost equal to pen, people started to purchasenew ball pens and a declinecame for the purchase of ball point refills. However still refills are available. 5. Ballpoint pen price Nowadays ball point pens are available from Rs10-00 to 50-00 rupees in India. Most purchase 4-5 pens at a time. Cartridgeswith black/ blue are commonly used. Green, violet and red pens are mostly usedby institutions. Nowadays for most ball pen is “use and throw” while ink isexhausted in the cartridge. 6.Refills for hot drinks. Powdersfor Hot drinks like Horlicks, bournvitta, Viva etc. appeared in glass bottles,changed to plastic bottles and later in cartons, which can be transferred tobottles. Most purchase first time bottles of the product and later carton packs,and fill in bottles. In fact in most of the TV advertisements for thesepowders, cartons are shown. Cartonsare priced less than bottles. Mostprobably tea powder and coffee powder came in cartons (except Nescafe,Bru etc.)and transferred to bottles. 7. Oilsin plastic packs. Nowmany cooking oils come in plastic pouches , and we open and transfer tobottles, glass, Tupper ware or metallic containers. However some oils came inplastic bottles only. 8. Detergent powders They camein packs and plastic containers. First time powder in container is purchasedand later in refill packs. The price difference is not small. 9.Detergent liquids Firsttime appeared only in plastic containers and later in pouches. We can transferrequired quantity to containers, keeping remaining in pouch. Pouches are verygood quality. Probably “Fab”the new detergent liquid alone comes in pouches alone. 10 LPGGas refill. Everythingfine, once LPG gas is exhausted, we place orders for a new LPG cylinder. But this is called refill booking!. Mostprobably after supplying new cylinder, empty cylinder is taken back, making itfor calling as refill booking. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1887800648.3725981.1708699539818%40mail.yahoo.com.
