Chewing gum individually wrapped with wrapper bearing transferable tattoo
AssigneeNabisco, Inc.
InventorJoanne Penaluna
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Abstract
A chewing gum product comprises an individual-sized piece of chewing gym wrapped in a flexible paper wrapper wherein the side of the wrapper in contact with the gum is coated with wax, and the other side of the wrapper contains no wax or adhesive and carries at least one complete design of ink comprising vegetable dye and polyvinyl alcohol which is transferable as a tattoo by wetting the design with water and pressing it against the surface to which the tattoo is to be transferred.
Claims5
A product comprising an individual stick of chewing gum wrapped in a paper wrapper having an inner surface which contacts said gum and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface of said wrapper is coated with a food grade wax and the outer surface of said wrapper does not contain wax, does not contain adhesive, and is imprinted with one or more complete patterns formed of ink comprising food grade vegetable dye and food grade polyvinyl alcohol, wherein said one or more complete patterns are integrally transferable from said wrapper to human skin upon moistening of the ink sufficiently with water to effect release of the pattern from the wrapper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.