Ray Stanton Avery was an American inventor, most known for creating self-adhesive labels. Using a $100 loan from his then-fiancé Dorothy Durfee and combining used machine parts with a saber saw, he created and patented the world's first self-adhesive die-cut labeling machine. In 1935, he founded what is now the Avery Dennison Corporation and Avery Products Corporation.
- Occupation
- inventor, engineer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 13, 1907
- Died
- December 12, 1997
