The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-05

Made Nowadays IN Many Attractive
Forms arc Put to Varied Uses.

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American invented a machine for rom
ing out TIN fol- that revoiudonized the
tin ioil industry
The beaten out TIN fon had becl
made and ueei for very many years fer
wrapping up various tlirss uh.oh &C.
ives desired to preserve Ga iheir ocis
inal condition. The new pruce OF
manufc+ue. by materially reduciu
the cc-s of it's production. widely e;
tender the Use Ct un foil foe these pa.
poses of utility.
A little later the American who in.
vented the tin foil rolling machine ln.
vented a machine for cnbo Sing TIA
fol. ty mcaas Of which any sired 3a.
sien or pattern could be used, and pro
ceases were devised for colorng the
surface Of tin foil in any q ired color
So that t1cra came TO bc produced tn
foil, tnst were covered an over win
delicately embossed flowers and vines
and sars and diamonds and stripes ard
so ON m a great variety of patterns ana
designs and foils embossed ia imita
tion OF silk and other fabrics, and these
pretuly embossed foils were colored in
many different delicate and brilliaat
colcls. and made Of one color on one
side and another color on the other
The embossed foils were made also
with gold and with silver surfaces. as
were likewise foils smooth surfaced In
shor'. tin foils had now come TO be a
thing Of beauty as wen as utility. One
who had never seen any but the plain
smooth tin foil could have 9u, little 10.
ticn, in fact, OF the beauty in which tin
toll IS now produced
And with tin foil produced in such
forms il cane to be used not only for
purposes Of utility bu. for various
uses i'm which it would aad to the at-
tractivcness of the goods around which
it was wrapped The thinnest of she
coiored and ornamental foils are called
tissue foIls. and they are scarcely If any
thicker than tissue paper Tin fois are
rolled in an almos, endless variety OF
thicknesscs, foils ranging from 1900
square inches to $4,000 square inches
being made from one pound Of netal
BesiCe being used IN the wrapping oi
/ various SORTS Of product sold in pack
ages. tin foil is used for wrapping
around bottle neclls, and over the heads
OF some. Il is used Tor wrapping choco
late and cheeses and candy and chew
ing gum and cigars and tobacco.
There Is an old story of now tin fch
helped TO make one mans fortune, That
OF man wei known in his day and
s,ir well remembered, tobaoconlst
and tobacco manufacturer. AS this
story runs, Gen. Scott, just then about
to depart to take command of the
United States troops engaged in the
war with Mexico. came TO this tobac-
conist and asked If there were not som ,
way in which tobacco could be pat up
/ for him so that it would not dry out
and detcrlorete in The country to which
he was going
Tho tobacco man hit upon The plan
of wrapping the Generals tobacco IN
tin foil wr19pers. This plan worked
beautifully. and there sprang up fer
tobacco wrapped in tn foil a great Ge-
mand, which the tobacco man was
prompt 10 supply. A felicitou- and 9t-
uactiye name for the tobacco thus puJ
up, name long familiar helped o in.
crease the demand for It, and a fortune
followed
Chandeliers are wrapped up in tin
foil, in fact there is special foil in
Ions strips made for this use Soap s
wrapped in tin foil Violet colored and
prettly embossed tn foil is used for
wrapping up the stems OF punches oi
yiolet-, and tin foil of various SORTS Is
wrapped around the stems OF bouquets
of other flowers, Tin foil finds orna.
lcntal uses al Christmas time
A sort Of lin foil which, however. is
not called foil, bot cap metal Is e2.
tensively used in the manufacture Of
10 le caps. Of which there are nov
useo i'm tais country alone hundred. III
millions annually such caps being aow
put on many bottled products 10 give a
/ handsome finish TO the package in
/ keeping with the general Improvement
now prevailing ia putting up am such
4 packages. Bottle caps which are OF
ancient use were once all spun b.
hand; and In fact ihe finest and heay.
lest bottle caps are still made IN the
same manner but the very great ma
iority Of the enormously greater num-
Der Of bottle caps now used are ma