This teabag making module was part of a production line at the Brooke Bond / Lipton tea factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.It was made by Molins of Coventry and used to manufacture PG Tips pyramid teabags.

The teabag module was at the heart of a much larger machine, which fed it with loose tea and paper and carried away the completed teabags for boxing up. Up to a thousand times every minute, this teabag module folded a paper tube into a pyramid shape, filled it with a dollop of tea, then cut and sealed the paper shut to make a finished three-dimensional pyramid teabag.

The result of a four-year scientific research effort, the three-dimensional pyramid shape gave the tea leaves more space to circulate than square bags, quickly brewing a strong cup of tea. Launched in 1996, pyramid bags quickly caught the public’s attention and made up a fifth of Britain’s teabag sales by 1999. Installed in the 1990s, the pyramid teabag machines at Trafford Park produced millions of teabags every day, until they were finally decommissioned in 2023.

This teabag making module was part of a production line at the Brooke Bond / Lipton tea factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.It was made by Molins of Coventry and used to manufacture PG Tips pyramid teabags.

The teabag module was at the heart of a much larger machine, which fed it with loose tea and paper and carried away the completed teabags for boxing up. Up to a thousand times every minute, this teabag module folded a paper tube into a pyramid shape, filled it with a dollop of tea, then cut and sealed the paper shut to make a finished three-dimensional pyramid teabag.

The result of a four-year scientific research effort, the three-dimensional pyramid shape gave the tea leaves more space to circulate than square bags, quickly brewing a strong cup of tea. Launched in 1996, pyramid bags quickly caught the public’s attention and made up a fifth of Britain’s teabag sales by 1999. Installed in the 1990s, the pyramid teabag machines at Trafford Park produced millions of teabags every day, until they were finally decommissioned in 2023.

This teabag making module was part of a production line at the Brooke Bond / Lipton tea factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.It was made by Molins of Coventry and used to manufacture PG Tips pyramid teabags.

The teabag module was at the heart of a much larger machine, which fed it with loose tea and paper and carried away the completed teabags for boxing up. Up to a thousand times every minute, this teabag module folded a paper tube into a pyramid shape, filled it with a dollop of tea, then cut and sealed the paper shut to make a finished three-dimensional pyramid teabag.

The result of a four-year scientific research effort, the three-dimensional pyramid shape gave the tea leaves more space to circulate than square bags, quickly brewing a strong cup of tea. Launched in 1996, pyramid bags quickly caught the public’s attention and made up a fifth of Britain’s teabag sales by 1999. Installed in the 1990s, the pyramid teabag machines at Trafford Park produced millions of teabags every day, until they were finally decommissioned in 2023.

This teabag making module was part of a production line at the Brooke Bond / Lipton tea factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.It was made by Molins of Coventry and used to manufacture PG Tips pyramid teabags.

The teabag module was at the heart of a much larger machine, which fed it with loose tea and paper and carried away the completed teabags for boxing up. Up to a thousand times every minute, this teabag module folded a paper tube into a pyramid shape, filled it with a dollop of tea, then cut and sealed the paper shut to make a finished three-dimensional pyramid teabag.

The result of a four-year scientific research effort, the three-dimensional pyramid shape gave the tea leaves more space to circulate than square bags, quickly brewing a strong cup of tea. Launched in 1996, pyramid bags quickly caught the public’s attention and made up a fifth of Britain’s teabag sales by 1999. Installed in the 1990s, the pyramid teabag machines at Trafford Park produced millions of teabags every day, until they were finally decommissioned in 2023.