The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-21
TIN FOIL AND
ITS MANY USES
An Indispen ,ible Adjunct to
the Tobacco In.
dustry.
Is ROLLED, NOT BEATEN
Used to Be Prepared as Gold Leaf,
but American Machinery
Has Changed That
Method.
Is ROLLED, NOT BEATEN

New York Sun: It used to be that
TIN foil was beaten out, as gold leaf has
always been and is today; but about
ntty years ago an American invented
q machine for rolling out tin foil that
revolutionized the tin foil industry.
The b%eaten-out tin foil had been
made n used for very many years for
Wrapping up various things which it
was desired to preserve In their origin-
al condition. The new process of man
ufacture, by materially reducing the
cost OF its production, widely extended
the use OF tin foil for these purposes Of
utility.
a little later the American who In.
vented the tin foil rolling machine in
vented a machine for enclosing tin
1oil: by means Of which any desired
design or pattern could be used, and
processes We're devised for coloring the
surface OF tin foil in any desired color.
80 that there came to be produced tin
Tolls that We're covered all over with
delcately embossed flowers and vines
ana stars and diamonds and stripes
ana SO On In a great variety Of patterns
ana designs. n foil embossed in
mutation of silk and other fabrics. and
these prettily embossed foils were COLI
ored In many different delicate and
brilliant colors, and made of one color
on n side and another color on the
other.
Embossed Foils.
The embossed foils were made also
WIN gold and with silver surfaces. as
were likewise foils smooth surfaced. In
short. tin foils had now come to be q
tnlng OF beauty as we'll as utility. One,
VINO mad v seen any but the plain
smooth tin foil could have but little
notlon. IN fact, of the beauty in which
TN foil Is now produced. \
And with tin foil produced in such
forms IL came to be used not only for
purposes Of utility. but for various uses
IN which 1T would d to the attract
lVeness OF the goods around which it
was wrapped. The thinnest of the
colored and ornamental foils are called
tissue foils, and they are scarcely il,
any thlcker than tissue paper. Tin foils
are rolled In an almost endless variety
OF foils ranging from 1000
square inches to IL, 1000 square inches
being made from n pound of metal.
BESIDE being used in the wrapping of
varlous sorts Of products sold in pack,
'neads OF some. 1t is used for wrapping
around bottle necks, and over the
heads OF come. 1t is used for wrapping
chocolate and cheeses and candy and
cheW1ng gum and for cigars and
tobacco. A0
There is an old story of how tin foil
nelped TO make n man. fortune, that
of a man well known in his day and
still well remembered, a tobacconist
and tobacco manufacturer. AS this
story runs, Gen. Scott, Just Their about
70 depart to take of he
United States troops engaged in he
wal with Mexico. came to this tobac-
conist n asked il there We're not
put up for him so that it would moi dry
out n deteriorate in the country to
which he was going.
Tobacco in Foil.
The tobacco man hit upon the nlan
OF wrapping the generals tobacco in
tin foil wrappers. This plan worked
beautifully, n there sprung up for
tobacco wrapped in tin foil a great de-
mand. which the tobacco nan was
prompt to supply. A felicitious and
attractive mamie long familiar, helped
to increase the demand for it. and a
fortune followed.
are wrapped up In tin
foil. in fact there Is a special foil in
long strips made for this use. Soap is
prettily embossed tin foil is used for
wrapping up the stems Of punches of
vtolets, and tin foil Of various sorts is
wrapped around the stems OF bouquets
Of other flowers. Tin foil finds orna-
mental uses at Christmas time.
a sort OF tin foil which, however, is,
not called foil. but cap metal, is ex-
tensively used in the manufacture of
bottle caps. Of which there are now
used in this country alone hundreds Of
millions annually, such caps being now
put on many bottled products to give
a handsome finish to the package, in
keeping with the general Improvement
now prevailing in putting up all such
packages. Bottle caps, which are of
ancient use, were once all spun by
hand; and in fact, the finest and heav-
lest bottle caps are still made in the
same manner, but the very great ma
jority Of the enormously greater num-
Der Of bottle caps now used are ma
chine made.