...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 |
| 4823764 | Bow mounted quiver A bow mounted quiver to hold a reserve supply of arrows in an alert status with respect to a bow for convenient and quick accessibility by an archer. An arrow rack is pivotally connected to a base that is assembled to the bow. The rack holds the arrows in... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4723531 | B-b loading device A b-b loading device which in a first preferred embodiment is characterized by a tubular-shaped loader having an internal cavity, a loading slot located near one end of the loader and a loading head characterized by a nozzle and nozzle bore at the opposit... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4687465 | Automatic clip or pellet carrier fed pellet implanter apparatus An automatic clip or carrier 100 fed pellet implanting gun apparatus 10 is described. The gun uses a pivotable lever 15 with a projection 15e on arm 15b which engages an arcuate surface 101a of a cam 101 on the carrier and snaps into place adjacent a driv... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4564125 | BB Loader An improved BB loader has a trough formed within a lateral extension of a tubular housing, so that a predetermined quantity of BB's may be quickly loaded into the trough from the reservoir in the housing. Thereafter, substantially the entire predetermined... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4436077 | Gun and resilient loop projectile therefor A gun for firing a resilient loop projectile, wherein the missile is stretched over a frame and discharged by a firing mechanism movable against the bias of on elastic member on an upwardly and rearwardly directed rectilinear path of travel. A combination... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4419978 | Breath operated dart apparatus including plastic foam quiver means A blowgun assembly and associated darts capable of long range accurate target application, comprising an elongate launching tube of exceptionally light weight, high rigidity, and dimensional stability along with an associated mouthpiece and a dart quiver ... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4363312 | Bow mounted quiver An archery quiver for detachable connection to an archery bow having a telescoping prong and socket mounting arrangement in which all of the components are made of plastic and in which the prong and socket are locked relative to each other by a deflectabl... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4321906 | Toy projector A sheet of resiliently bendable but relatively stiff material has a hole from which slits radiate to define a circular series of stiff but resiliently bendable tabs. When the sheet is pressed downwardly over a fairly hard ball the tabs are flexed to pass ... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4318389 | Powerful, collapsible, compact spear gun A spear gun is collapsible to approximately one-half of the full length of a conventional spear gun by the use of both (1) a spear made of two parts and (2) by the use of a hollow shortened spear gun housing from which an extension for holding the slings ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4252101 | Detachable bow mounted quiver A detachable quiver for bow mounting on a bow having a pair of mounting members mounted on the bow and formed integrally with a plastic quiver are maintained in connected condition by a resilient biasing arrangement formed integrally with one of the plast... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4247027 | Bow-mounted quiver A quiver includes a frame releasably holding arrows and mounted on a bow for movement between a storage position, in which the arrows are disposed parallel to the bow, and a nocking position, in which the arrows are placed across the bow and the bowstring... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4173211 | Pellet gun loading device A dispensing device for loading pellets into the receiver of an air gun is provided and includes a housing having a pellet receiving aperture and a pellet dispensing aperture. The device includes an elongated hollow storage tube for retaining and storing ... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4083349 | Rapid-fire, fluid actuated B.B. gun A rapid-fire B.B. pellet-type machine gun operated from a source of gas propellant preferably a canister of liquefield gas, has a trigger-operated valve releasing propellant gas from the source to a pellet containing magazine for projecting the pellets in... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4004565 | Clip for supplying implant projectiles A clip for use with a gas-operated gun to package and supply to the gun hygienic projectiles for inoculating animals with a particular biologically active material. The clip contains a molded structure having a plurality of axially aligned adjacent cylind... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3996916 | Rapid fire gun A gun for rapidly firing projectiles from a package inserted into a magazine as a cartridge and which are automatically fed into a propelling chamber and barrel connected thereto by a continuous stream of high pressure gas, a portion or all of which flows... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3990426 | Tennis ball throwing machine Tennis balls are introduced via a removable ball pick-up magazine through a ball port in a wall of a pipe into a stream of air flowing through the pipe towards a barrel. Air flows freely through the barrel and through the ball port past a normally open fl... | 11/09/1976 |