Frisbie Pie Company

It was founded in 1871 by William Russell Frisbie in Bridgeport, Connecticut, when he bought and renamed a branch of the Olds Baking Company.

[1] Frisbie supplied pies to many Connecticut retailers and restaurants, including the Middlebury College campus in nearby Vermont.

Middlebury students discovered that the pie tins, inverted, had an airfoil shape, which enabled them to be thrown, with practice, in various trajectories.

To capitalize on the craze over the pie tins, known colloquially as "Frisbies", they took the same name for their toy, changing the spelling to "Frisbee" to avoid trademark infringement.

He later throws the plate at a derringer held by outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson), foiling his attempt to shoot Doctor Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd).