The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp can recently died in Cincinnati, Ohio, US. He was very proud of the Pringles can. He even asked that part of his ashes be buried in one of them.
Fredric J. Baur died on May 4. He was 89.
His children said they honored their father’s request to bury him in one of the cans. They placed part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container. Another part of his remains was placed in an urn buried along with the can. The rest of his ashes were placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur’s daughter, Linda Baur of Mississippi.
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Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design, a son, Lawrence Baur, of Michigan, said.
As a chemist for Procter & Gamble Co., Baur specialized in research and development and quality control.
He filed for a patent for the Pringles container and for the method of packaging the chips in 1966. It was granted in 1970.
Baur retired in the early 1980s.
(STAFF WRITER, WITH AP)
品客洋芋片罐的設計者最近在美國辛辛那堤逝世。他對自己發明的品客洋芋片罐感到非常驕傲，甚至要求後人把他一部分的骨灰裝在品客洋芋片罐中埋葬。
弗烈德瑞克．鮑爾五月四日去世，享年八十九歲。
他的兒女表示，他們尊重父親希望把骨灰裝在品客罐中埋葬的遺願。鮑爾住在密西西比的女兒琳達．鮑爾說，他們將父親的骨灰一部份裝在品客罐中，一部分裝在骨灰罈中後，一起入葬。剩餘的骨灰則裝在另一個骨灰罈中，交給一名孫子保存。
鮑爾住在密西根的兒子勞倫斯．鮑爾說，父親會要求這樣安排後事，是因為他對自己的設計感到驕傲。
曾在寶僑公司擔任化學工程師的鮑爾，專門負責商品的研發與品管。
他一九六六年替自己設計的品客洋芋片罐及其包裝方式申請專利，並於一九七Ｏ年取得專利。
鮑爾在一九八Ｏ年代初期退休。
（美聯社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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