The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-07-21
TIN FOIL AND
ITS MANY USES
An lndispen ,ible AdjI ncs to
the Tobacco In
dustrY.
Is ROLLED, NOT BEATEN
Used to Be Prepared as Gold Leaf,
but American Machinery
Has Changed That
Method.

New York Sun: 1t used to be that
tin foil was beaten out, as gold leaf has
always been and is today; but about
fifty years ago an American invented
a machine for rolling out lin foil that
revolutionized the tin fell industry.
The b~eaten-out tin foil had been
made and used for worry many years for
Wrapping up various things which it
was desired TO preserve in their o.igin-
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 purpose Of
utility.
y little. later the American who in
vented the tin foil rolling machine in
vented Il machine for enclosing Tin
foil. by means of which any desired
design or pattern could be used, and
processes Wee devised for coloring tho
surface of tin foil in any desired color.
SO that there came to be produced tin
tolls that We're covered all over with.
dellca,ely embossed flowers and vines
and stars n diamonds and stripes
and so on in a great variety of patterns
and designs. and foil embossed / IN
imitation of silk and other fabrics, and
these prettily embossed foilS We're coll
ored in many different delicate and
brilliant %colors. and made of one color
on Il side and another color on the
other.
Embossed Foiis.
The embossed foils were made also
WIN gold and with silver surfaces, as
were likewise foils smooth surfaced. In
snort, tin foils had now come to be a
thing OF beauty as We'll as utility. One,
VINO mad never seen any but the plain
smooth tin foil could have but little
notion. In fact, OF the beauty in which
TN FOIL is now produced. ,
And with tin foil produced in such
forms 1t came TO be used not only for
purposes of utility. but for various uses
IN which it would add to the attract
lNeness of the goods around which it
was wrapped. The hinnest of the
colofea ana namenta foils are called
tissue foils, and they are scarcely IL
any thicker than tissue paper. Tin foils
are rolled in an almost endless variety
OF Weaknesses fOilS ranging from 1000
square inches to 5000 square inches
being made from n pound of metal.
BESIDE being used in the wrapping OF
various sorts of products sold i'm pack
heads of some. 1t is used for wrappin
afound bottle necks. and over the
heads of come. 1t is used for wrapping
chocolate and cheeses and candy and
chewing gum n for cigars and
tobacco.
There is an old story of how Tin foil
EN@hS C'i1 IIst - llllI
or a man we'll known in his dav and
stlil we'll remembered, a tobacconist
ana tobacco manufacturer. AS this,
story runs, Gen. Scott, lust then about
10 depart TO take of the
United States troops engaged in tho
wal With Mexico, came to this tobac-
cohlst and asked if there We're not
some way in which tobacco could he
put UP for him so that it would no dry
out and deteriorate in the country to
Which he was going.
Tobacco in Foil.
The tobacco man hit upon the plan
OF Wrapping the generals tobacco i'm
I'm 1oii wrappers. This plan worked
beautifully. II there sprung up for
tobacco wrapped in tin foil a great de-
mand. which the tobacco man was
prompt TO supply. a felicitious and
attractive name long familiar, helped
to increase the demand for it, and a
fortune followed.
Chandeliers are wrapped up in tin
foil, in fact there is a special foil in
long strips made for this use. Scan is
wrapped in tin foil. Violet colored and
prettily embossed tin foil is used for
wrapping up the stems Of punches of
Niolets, and tin foil of various sorts is
Wrapped around the stems of bouquets
of other flowers. Tin foil flnds orna-
menta! uses at Christmas time.
~ sort of tin foil which, however, is
not called foil, but cap metal, is ex-
tens!vely 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, We're once all spun by
hand; II in fact, the finest and heav-
lest bottle caps are still made in the
same manne but the very great ma
jority of the enormously greater num-
Der of bottle caps now used are ma