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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066039 | Rail end former for cabinet doors An apparatus cuts rail ends for cabinet doors. Infeed and outfeed carriages are reciprocally movable along spaced apart tracks, and a transverse carriage is reciprocally moveable between the tracks. An arbor between the tracks supports and rotates a cutter. Clamps o... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7997308 | Wood working machine A wood working machine includes a mounting plate assembly for supporting a cutting tool, the assembly including a base plate, first and second intermediate plates on the base plate, and first and second guide plate elements pivotally supported on the intermediate pl... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7861751 | Edge trimming and board ripping apparatus and method A wood product assembly includes a cutter subassembly and a skewing assembly. A cutter positioning body is movable by a slewing assembly along a slewing axis. A spindle housing is mounted to the cutter positioning body for pivotal movement about a pivot axis. A spin... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857017 | Land clearing apparatus A deforestation apparatus includes a tractor having a power source, a torque converter connected to said power source and driving a power take-off shaft, a cutting implement operably coupled to said power take-off shaft, wherein said torque converter amplifies torqu... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7743802 | 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 wh... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7438096 | Veneer composer A veneer composer is provided including a skew correcting station adapted to square at least one edge of a veneer piece to a reference side, a clipping station adapted to move in the same direction and at the same material being clipped, and a gap closing station ad... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7395844 | Processing apparatus and method of processing A method of processing a wooden piece taken out from a raw wood into a predetermined three-dimensional shape, includes compressing the wooden piece by applying compressive force thereto in a water vapor atmosphere of higher temperature and higher pressure than atmos... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7363754 | Mowing machine A control system for a trimmer head assembly includes a first arm including a first mowing device, a first cylinder connected to the first arm, a source of fluid in selective communication with the first cylinder via a fluid line, and an accumulator in selective com... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347232 | Lumber processing apparatus and method A method and apparatus are provided for processing rough cut lumber to convert the rough cut lumber into trimmed to length and dimensionally trimmed to form a standard piece of dimensioned lumber. The process and apparatus includes the formation of a plurality of co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7308921 | Horizontal curve sawing apparatus A saw for cutting a cant by sensing the curvature of the cant and raising or lowering the saw blade in order to follow the curvature when cutting the cant. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299837 | Planing heads assembly for an automated planing machine A planing heads positioning device to be used with an automatic planing machine for planing sides of a piece of lumber moving along a travelling course is provided. The device includes a main frame and a planing assembly including first and second planing head arran... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7281552 | Wood carving assembly and a method for making the same A carving assembly 10 for use in duplicating a blank or form. The carving assembly 10 includes stylus 112 and a tool holder 120 which are coupled together using a slidable carriage 14 to allow any movement of the stylus to cause a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275735 | Fan drive for fluid cooler with evaporative heat exchanger A cooling tower and/or a fan drive system are provided which enhance cooling performance, are able to reduce lateral temperature gradients at least to some degree, provide for easy removal of debris and/or provide for easy fan adjustment. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7243691 | Tree shear A tree shear for use with a prime mover such as a skid-steer loader wherein the tree shear includes a pair of tree shear blades, having forward and rearward ends, which are secured to the forward end of a tree shear frame in a non-movable and fixed manner. The blade... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240598 | Power transmission structure with dual blade shaft of a circular saw A power transmission structure with a dual blade shaft of a circular saw wherein the rear end of the driving shaft of the driving roller is provided with a fixing plate pivotally mounted with a steering roller, a steered roller and a dual level transmission roller. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237584 | Butt plate for feller buncher A butt plate for a felling head includes a ramped portion in an accumulation pocket. The ramped portion is sloped downward generally toward a line extending in the direction of forward travel of the head. The butt plate allows for high accumulation of trees while re... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228881 | Wood processor A wood processor including a motor vehicle having a bed structure, a clamping device on the bed structure for clamping a wood log and positioning it in a first processing position, a power saw for cutting predetermined length members from the wood log, and a splitti... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7210509 | Chipping head A chipping head, particularly a chipping head of a chipping canter, is disclosed comprising a head body having thereon mounted multiple chipping knives that are adapted on the head body in an annular fashion spaced at a distance from each other. Onto the chipping he... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7171738 | Systems for processing workpieces Systems, including method and apparatus, for processing workpieces driven automatically along a linear path to a plurality of positions disposed substantially along the linear path. In some embodiments, a workpiece may be processed at one or more of the positions us... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165300 | Portable pocket cutter A portable pocket cutter employs a shaping assembly and a boring assembly, connected via a frame and coupling assembly, for constructing a pocket joint in a workpiece. The frame is at least partially supported upon a workpiece. The shaping assembly is pivotally conn... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163038 | Systems and methods for end squaring and dividing elongated materials The present invention provides systems and methods for end squaring and/or dividing elongated materials by determining an actual orientation of the elongated material, or an actual position of an associated pair of positioning mechanisms that are contactable with th... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159628 | Gangsaw with a split sawbox A split sawbox for a gangsaw includes a sawbox having at least first and second mating sawbox sections. The sections are linearly selectively translatable relative to one another between a closed position wherein the sections are releasably locked together for opera... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7134465 | Process and apparatus for identifying, tracking and handling lumber to be cut-in-two An apparatus for identifying, tracking and handling lumber to be cut-in-two includes a scanner and optimizer to scan the length of a board and to compare the scanned board to predetermined criteria so as to identify a board which, optimally, would be cut into two pi... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131470 | Fence router table system A table with a working surface has a parallel rail on each side of the working surface. A slide assembly includes a shaft with ends and a pair of brackets. Each bracket has a hole. The holes receive the ends of the shaft. The slide assembly includes cylindrical tunn... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128109 | Essential oil reclaim apparatus, and method of use An essential oil reclaim method for use with a corresponding apparatus, comprising the following steps: the apparatus grabs the tree parts, the tree tops or the tree limbs, and shakes them with rotating drums provided with chains (under whiplash effect); the needles... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117907 | Apparatus for adjustably profiling a cant An apparatus for adjustably profiling a cant comprising a first and second shaft rotatably mounted on a first and second frame, respectively. A first and second pair of laterally spaced apart profiling heads are slidably and rotatably mounted on the first and second... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111374 | Door seal drilling and pinning Improved drilling and pinning machines and methods for processing elongate flexible e.g. rubber strips of seal material for forming seals about openings. The machines and methods form precisely positioned holes in the rubber strip, and insert pins in the holes. Oppo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7112014 | Door lock set installation jig An installation jig has a body member and a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism along with the body are clamped onto a door. The body includes a plurality of walls with one wall having an aperture enabling passage of a tool which may drill a hole into a door ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7093538 | Wooden debris compressor A wooden debris compressor includes a storing tank, and a poking device under the storing tank provided with plural poking rods fixed spaced apart in a definite angle. Then alternate back-and-forth rotation of the poking rods controls the volume of wooden debris fal... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093628 | Method of and apparatus for forming timbers with rounded ends The method of forming timbers especially for use as webs in timber roof trusses comprising feeding timbers in a predetermined path with the timbers extending transversely to the direction of feed and, as the timbers are so fed, shaping the ends thereof to rounded fo... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7080431 | Apparatus and methods for double ended processing System, including apparatus and method, involves processing materials in opposite directions between two machines along a processing path. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7073991 | Door lock set installation jig An installation jig has a body member and a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism along with the body are clamped onto a door. The body includes a plurality of walls with one wall having an aperture enabling passage of a tool which may drill a hole into a door ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069632 | Coaxial and concentric cutting machine and a method for use thereof A concentric coaxial cutting machine which cuts cylinders, cylindroids or cones using a chain saw from a single larger object such as a wood tree trunk, a block of ice or a block of plastic. An embodiment of the invention comprises a transverse support member having... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7040206 | Straddle safety pusher system An adjustable pushing apparatus (50) for safely moving a work piece (22) past a cutting tool (16). The apparatus includes a body (52), a first leg (56), a second leg (58) and a moveable center leg (60) defining a leg ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7017632 | Position-based integrated motion controlled curve sawing A method of position-based integrated motion controlled curve sawing includes the steps of: transporting a curved workpiece in a downstream direction on a transfer, and monitoring position of the workpiece on the transfer, scanning the workpiece through an upstream ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000658 | Precision adjustable woodworking platform A precision adjustable woodworking platform that is self-calibrating and designed to move a tool very accurately back and forth horizontally and up and down. One of a number of different woodworking tools is fastened in a saddle that can be rotated and set at a sele... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000605 | Engraver apparatus and method A concrete engraver apparatus including a carrier for use with a hand-held engraver. The hand-held engraver is detachably mounted to the carrier. The carrier has wheels and a handle attached to an enclosure. The enclosure includes a vacuum mount for attaching a vacu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000659 | Adzer mount assembly An adzer mount assembly having a slider box with a vertical slider and horizontal sliders. The vertical slider has an adzer which can be precisely positioned over a crosstie by hydraulic transverse movement of the slider box and vertical movement of the vertical sli... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6991012 | Apparatus for sawing a workpiece A method of forming a workpiece into sectioned parts using a pair of laterally translatable chipping heads and, downstream, a cutting device of the type having a plurality of rotatable cutting members mounted for rotation on a common axis which is movable and includ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6971423 | Method and apparatus for singulating, debarking, scanning and automatically sawing and sorting logs into lengths A log handling and cutting system which cuts logs into lengths, and allows for maximum use of fiber. The system includes equipment for singulating the logs, optimally removing the bark from the logs, scanning the true log image, cutting the logs to length, and sorti... | 12/06/2005 |
