MICROFLAKE STORY Industrial Research Institute presentation, 1962

[TOBACCOIANA; INNOVATIVE/PATENTED CIGARETTE MAKING MACHINE PROCESS, 1960s] THE MICROFLAKE STORY, A Presentation to the Industrial Research Institute, Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 16, 1962, by Hamilton Herman, Vice President and Director, Research and Development Division, and Dr. William P. Cadogan, Manager, Chemical Development Laboratory, published by American Machine and Foundry Company [AMF]/Research and Development Division, 1962, leatherette binder with blindstamping showing title on first interior page and gilded lettering of publisher, 8-1/2" x 11", pages unnumbered/about 150 pages, illustrations, photographs, charts, diagrams, tables, illustrations ranging from cartoon-like drawings, diagrams of chemical properties, photographs of machines, and cost-analysis charts relating to AMF's development of tobacco in rolls for cigarettes and cigars and the flexibility and commitment to innovation AMF displayed in developing this new product which revolutionized the cigarette and tobacco industry; RARE, none found for sale (5/29/21), none recorded at WorldCat/OCLC (5/29/21); NOTES: patent application, "W. A. HADLEY CIGARETTE MAKING MACHINE Filed April 5, 1963…Tappan, N.Y., assignor to American Machine & Foundry Company…This invention relates to apparatus for making cigarettes and more particularly to using an electrostatic field in connection therewith to improve the body of the cigarette…Another object of this invention is to extrude a core of tobacco, such as sections of tobacco leaf, or shreds of natural tobacco, or substitute tobacco material, such as microflake tobacco, to which core tobacco shreds are adhered and relative to which they extend outwardly to increase the firmness of a cigarette." (Cigarette Making Machine, Google Patents, see online article for more) /// CONDITION: very good-plus or better, edgewear to outer edge of front cover and outer edges of first few pages, faint normal agewear to pages, well-preserved with minimal wear.