...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5657621 | Vehicle for transforming cut field herbage such as alfalfa into feed cubes for livestock A device which takes cut alfalfa laying in a field and turns it into a plurality of pressed cubes. A water spray conditions the cut alfalfa to have the right moisture content for subsequent processing. A pick up station delivers the alfalfa off of the gro... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5613533 | Cylinder rupture vessel A waste cylinder rupture vessel for release and recontainerization of toxic contents of compressed gas cylinders is defined by an enclosed chamber which accommodates a plurality of bearing surfaces for supporting and positioning a target cylinder thereon.... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5462425 | Apparatus for demoisturizing coal An apparatus for mechanically separating water from coal includes a vibrating hopper, two contra-rotating cylinders, a solid collector, and a fluid collector. The hopper feeds hydrated coal or coal slurry to wells which are arranged along the surface of a... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5271319 | Roll press with deaeration apparatus Roll press or mill with two adjacent rolls (2, 4) with cooperating compression surfaces, mounted in bearing housings located between an upper and lower box girder, one roll being adjustable, with a material feed system with at least one fill chamber (6) w... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5215765 | Iron sponge briquetting press The invention relates to an iron sponge briquetting press having two opposite rollers. The rollers consist of a roller base body and a coating affixed thereto, in which the moulding recesses for shaping the briquettes are formed. In order to provide less ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5151280 | Pelletizing machine A rotary pelletizing machine has a rotatable matrix disc, a plurality of vertically adjustable pressing rollers which control position of the upper and lower plungers, a drive for a height adjustment of the rollers, a housing accommodating the drive, and ... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5110461 | Apparatus for separating liquids and solids Apparatus for separating liquids and solids, comprising, separator screen means for receiving and separating the solids and liquids, conveyor means for feeding the separated solids upwardly from the separator screen means, and compactor means for compacti... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4608007 | Oat crimper A roller mill for cracking or crimping oats or the like is constructed with a cam adjustment which will positively maintain the rollers at an adjustably selected minimum spacing and which can be readily adjusted to establish a wider spacing for handling c... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4584934 | Apparatus for producing a homogenous flexible layer of material from blocks of highly consistent material, such as butter or margarine An apparatus for producing a homogeneous flexible layer of material such as butter or margarine, comprising an input portion for guiding blocks of said material into a central portion, in which two rotors 11, 12 are arranged in a horizontal plane, a centr... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4558559 | Apparatus for pelletizing and distributing lawn clippings Lawn clippings are pelletized and distributed back onto the lawn directly, for example, as part of a mowing operation. For this purpose the lawn clippings are supplied into the top of a chamber wherein compression rollers press the clippings through a sta... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4530383 | Apparatus for feeding the growing substrate into the cells in a set of growing cells The present invention relates to a device for feeding a substrate into the cells of a set of growing cells placed underneath the device. The feeding device includes two horizontal feeding rolls parallel to each other. Each feeding roll includes a pluralit... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4459907 | Press for removing water Press for removing water, wherein the material to be treated is led together with a wire which is pervious to water through a press nip zone formed by opposite surfaces. The press comprises compressible means for transporting the material to be treated. T... | 07/17/1984 |