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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070256526 | Apparatus and method for an electric jack An apparatus and method for an electric jack, wherein an electrically powered jack is provided for at least partially raising and lowering an automobile off a ground surface. The apparatus may be utilized in conjunction with a conventional portable car jack, wherein the... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256527 | Torque limiting device and methods A surgical device can include a torque limiting device or system. The surgical device can include a rod attached on one end to a rotatable handle and attached on the opposite end to a surgical implement. A first torque limiting element can be connected to the handle, an... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256528 | Securing tool and clamp tool A securing tool for securing a two-wheeler component to a handlebar comprises a body, a bracket connected to the body for securing the two-wheeler component, a clamp band clamping the handlebar and a control knob in the form of a ring provided in a rotatable manner with... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256529 | Edge Trimming and Board Ripping Apparatus and Method A wood product assembly includes a cutter and skewing assemblies. A cutter positioning body is movable by the slewing assembly along a slewing axis. A spindle housing is mounted to the cutter positioning body for pivotal movement about a pivot axis. A spindle, to which ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256530 | Reciprocated Knife Having an Integral Tangent Axis Orientation Drive An apparatus is disclosed that cuts pattern work material pieces without rotating a housing tube for orientation of the cutting knife. The apparatus utilizes a tangential axis drive motor to orient the cutting knife. Consequently, any inertia caused by the housing tube ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256531 | Cutting Pre-Assembled Rubber Products Cutting assembly comprising a blade or two half-cutting blades (40a, 40b) each composed of a point (43, 43a, 43b) of generally triangular form, located in a plane forming substantially a right-angle with a referenc... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256532 | Drum made of environment friendly materials A drum includes a shell, which is made of environment friendly materials such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polycarbonate (PC), Polystyrene (PS), and Polypropylene (PP); furthermore, after shaping, the drum shell is printed, plated, and decorated with stickers on... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256533 | Guitar pick An improved guitar pick or plectrum for use with a stringed musical instrument. The improved pick has a substantially planar central gripping portion and at least one and not more than four substantially planar picking wing portions peripherally extending, one each in a... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256534 | Musical Accessory Having Tuner and/ or Metronome and Having Power Generation Function Disclosed is a musical accessory, equipped with a tuner for stringed instruments and/or a metronome, capable of generating power by itself, which is convenient to use. In an aspect, the musical accessory comprises a casing housing a sensor, an amplifier, an A/D converte... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256535 | Protective and Decorative Cover for a Guitar A protective cover for an electric string instrument including a generally U-shaped cradle having a flexible front member connected to a flexible back member by a flexible edge member. An upper fin-engaging portion of the edge member can be adapted to fit over the upper... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256536 | Adjustable hand rest post for musical instruments Adjustable hand rest post for a musical instrument, wherein the hand rest post is constructed to provide multiple adjustments of the position of the hand rest on which the hand or hands of the musical performer rest when playing a musical instrument, such as a bassoon o... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256537 | Compact, multiple percussion practice pad apparatus A percussion practice pad assembly, comprising a support, multiple pads carried by the support to be selectively struck, the pads characterized as producing different sounds, when struck, as during practice. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256538 | Method and apparatus for counter-weighting a bass drum This invention is a new and useful method and apparatus for counter-weighting a bass drum to prevent slippage while in use on hard, slick floors in a traditional rock or jazz-style percussion arrangement. This method and apparatus utilizes the weight of a percussion pla... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256539 | Finger alignment training device A finger alignment device for a musical instrument, the alignment device includes an enclosure having a mounting surface and at least one open end, the enclosure arranged to substantially cover a fore end of a finger and a releasable fastening means for engaging with th... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256540 | System and Method of Instructing Musical Notation for a Stringed Instrument A system and method of instructing a user to read musical notation through interaction with a graphical user interface and an input instrument representative of a stringed instrument comprising a plurality of modes of instruction which progressively direct and alter cha... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256541 | Musical video game console and methods therefor A game console capable of operating with a variety of electronic musical instruments is provided. Such a system is especially useful for downloading different musical video games for a variety of musical instruments and capable of changing the level of difficulty during... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256542 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switching ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256543 | Method and System for Assessing a Musical Performance The invention relates to a method and system for assessing a performance of a musical composition in relation to a model performance of the same composition. In particular, as even a model performance does not follow a score of a composition precisely, the present inven... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256544 | Sound Processing Apparatus, Sound Processing Method, Sound Processing Program and Recording Medium Which Records Sound Processing Program A sound-processing apparatus is provided that is capable of creating a sound effect without having to worry about changes in parameters such as the beat of the input sound source. The sound-processing apparatus comprises: a delay unit DB that generates at least one or m... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256545 | Portable Moving-Picture Multimedia Player and Microphone-type Apparatus for Accompanying Music Video Disclosed are a portable multimedia player detachably coupled in a microphone case and a microphone-type video-song accompaniment apparatus. The apparatus includes a microphone case and a portable moving picture multimedia player. The microphone case has a head part in ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256546 | Storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus therefor Acceleration data outputted from an acceleration sensor provided in an input device is acquired and a magnitude of an acceleration is calculated. Next, based on the calculated magnitude of the acceleration, at least one piece of track data representing a target music to... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256547 | Musically Interacting Devices Provided is, among other things, a system of musically interacting devices. A first device has a first identification code, a first wireless communication interface and a first audio player, and a second device has a second identification code, a second wireless communi... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256548 | Music Information Calculation Apparatus and Music Reproduction Apparatus Provided is a music information calculation apparatus capable of recognizing a structure of a piece of music based on an acoustic signal of the piece of music. Provided are an acoustic signal input means for inputting the acoustic signal of the piece of music; an acoust... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256549 | Effect system The disclosure presented here involves an effect device that can easily connect with other effect devices in parallel. A preferred embodiment of this device is equipped with a number of components including an effect add means that adds effects, a mixing means that mixe... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256550 | AUTOMATIC PLAYER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, TESTING SYSTEM INCORPORATED THEREIN AND METHOD FOR SPECIFYING HALF PEDAL POINT A testing system is incorporated in an automatic player piano for specifying a half pedal point of a damper pedal at which the loudness of tones is lessened, and an automatic player moves the damper pedal to the half pedal point so as to lessen the loudness of tones in ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256551 | Method and apparatus for sensing and displaying tablature associated with a stringed musical instrument A system and method of enhancing guitar instruction based on Tablature Plus encoding of playing techniques within a MIDI file or other data structure, that may be rendered on an associated player application that provides multimedia output of the piece being played incl... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256552 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LAUNCHING FREE-FLYING PROJECTILES The present invention relates to a method and a device by means of which it has been made possible, without gas discharge to the surrounding environment, to accelerate the speed of a powder-gas-driven projectile from zero to a speed which gives the projectile free-flyin... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256553 | Compressor The present invention relates to a compressor, which has a bolt-cooling part formed between a suction chamber and a bolt fastening hole formed at a position, where the suction chamber and a discharge chamber of a housing are partitioned from each other, for allowing for... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256554 | Hydraulic tool with wobble plate transmission A hydraulic tool including a motor; a hydraulic pump comprising only one reciprocating piston pump member; and a transmission connecting the motor to the hydraulic pump. The transmission includes a wobble plate and at least one spring. The wobble plate includes a front ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256555 | Telescopic lifting assembly A telescopic lifting assembly designed particularly for the hydraulic height adjustment of a medical treatment table includes two antiparallel juxtaposed linear drives (2, 3) connected functionally one behind the other in the direction of actuation (1) whe... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256556 | Pump having double reverse seal to eliminate leaking and binding A seal assembly which generally includes a first annular seal member having a bent lip portion defining a central opening, a second annular seal member having a bent lip portion defining a central opening and an annular spacer sandwiched between the first and second sea... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256557 | Sealing Device To make it unnecessary to insert a plate spring as a separate part between a metal ring (2) and a mating member (11) to be coupled therewith such as a clutch plate, and reduce the number of parts and the assembly manhours, the sealing device (1) inc... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256558 | Ejector to reduce permeate backpressure of air separation module An air separation system includes an ejector for controlling a pressure differential across an air separation module and a valve for controlling air flow through the ejector such that airflow through the ejector is discontinued when not required to maintain the desired ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256559 | Integrated vacuum absorption steam cycle gas separation Methods and systems for separating a targeted gas from a gas stream emitted from a power plant. The gas stream is brought into contact with an absorption solution to preferentially absorb the targeted gas to be separated from the gas stream so that an absorbed gas is pr... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256560 | SILVER NANOPARTICLE-CONTAINING POLYMER FILM FOR FACILITATED OLEFIN TRANSPORT AND METHOD FOR THE FABRICATION THEREOF Disclosed herein are a polymer membrane, based on a facilitated transport mechanism, for separating olefins from paraffins, and a method for fabricating the same. In the polymer membrane for facilitated transport, silver nanoparticles are partially cationized and play a... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256561 | Degassing apparatus A degassing apparatus is provided that accomplishes the connecting of a degassing element and a connecting member and/or the joining of a vacuum (reduced-pressure) chamber and the connecting member without using a fastening structure effected by a fastening means screwe... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256562 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME Composite membranes that are adapted for separation, purification, filtration, analysis, reaction and sensing. The composite membranes can include a porous support structure having elongate pore channels extending through the support structure. The composite membrane al... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256563 | Electrostatic ionic air emission device The invention concerns an electrostatic ionic emission device for depositing on the surface of a plurality of particles aerosols within a fluid, a quasi-homogeneous amount of ions. The device comprises a discharge corona conductive electrode, and a non-corona conductive... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256564 | POSITIVE PRESSURE FILTRATION KIT APPARATUS AND METHOD A positive pressure filtration kit (200) comprises a filtration unit (201), there being at least one filter (202) in the filtration unit and at least one air drawer (204) in the filtration unit. The filtration unit (201) is configured ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256565 | Air filter restriction indicator An air filter restriction indicator may comprise an indicator tab, a spindle inserted into the retention hole, a spindle-biasing member situated coaxial with the spindle, a tab-biasing member connected to the indicator tab; and a tab housing; wherein the indicator tab i... | 11/08/2007 |
