On January 29, 1924, Carl R. Taylor received U.S. Patent No. 1,481,813 on an [Ice Cream] Cone Rolling Machine:

Carl allegedly attended the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, where he became fascinated with ice cream and the ice cream cone. He returned to Cleveland and spent nearly two decades developing a machine to quickly and cheaply make ice cream cones. Although his was not the first cone rolling machine (that honor goes to H.G. Tatosian’s U.S. Patent No. 1,440,851, issued January 2, 1923, which was filed just five days before Carl’s filing date):

Shortly after his patent issued, Carl formed the Ice Cream Cone Company to manufacture the cones. Eventually the Ice Cream Cone Company was acquired by Norse Dairy Systems.