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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 |
| 7255303 | Paper guide apparatus and method with curl control A paper guide for mounting in front of a paper dispensing slot, has a top wall angled downward with respect to the paper ejection direction by an angle alpha, a pair of opposed side walls at the sides of the top wall, angled inwardly relative to the side edges of th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6012277 | Yarn spinning from fibre sub-assemblies with variation of their paths of travel, relative positions or twist levels A yarn is spun by dividing a traveling fiber assembly into a plurality of fiber sub-assemblies, causing the sub-assemblies to traverse different paths and then recombining them, wherein the paths are sufficiently proximate for fibers to continuously trans... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5943740 | Combing machine with an autoleveller drafting arrangement The invention relates to an apparatus for forming a sliver with a first regulated drafting arrangement (10) with several pairs of rollers (11, 12, 14) for the regulated drafting of the fibre mass (8) supplied to the drafting arrangement, with the fibre fl... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5535488 | Carding and drawing system for spinning process A system for spinning is provided where a pair of carding machines are arranged side by side. A first drawn sliver is produced by feeding two carded slivers simultaneously into a sliver collector and a drafting system. The drafting system includes a pair ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5400476 | Apparatus and method for controlling draft uniformity in textile sliver The present invention provides a drafting apparatus and method having a plurality of pairs of rollers which pairs are each driven in the same rotational direction and have silver contact points oriented along a common straight line. Sliver is fed to the p... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5161284 | Sliver drafting apparatus with rpm sensing and adjusting A sliver drafting apparatus has a pre-drafting mechanism which simultaneously receives a plurality of running slivers, and includes first and second pairs of drafting rolls between which the slivers pass. The apparatus further has a gathering element disp... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5023976 | Feed table of a drawframe arrangement The invention relates to a feed table for feeding slivers by way of a conveyor to a textile processing machine. The slivers are drawn off from associated spinning cans by way of draw-off devices and placed on the conveyor. In the event of a sliver running... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4924556 | Stretch-break machine with drafting and breaking zones in superimposed levels A machine for stretch-break converting man-made fibers or fiber slivers, h the machine having one or more distortion zones, one of which can be embodied as a heating zone, and one or more breaking zones, whereby the distortion and breaking zones can be d... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4700538 | Method and apparatus for handling a sliver Textile slivers tend to loose their cohesion when travelling over long distances from one piece of storage or processing equipment to another such piece of equipment. This problem is overcome by subjecting the sliver to a false twisting process during its... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4678136 | Suspended creel A relatively heavy sliver creel frame is suspended from an overhead support by relatively stiff wires whose angle to the creel in combination with the weight of the creel minimize horizontal creel sway. A pair of additional stabilizing links connect the c... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4662164 | Separation, and phasing of sheath sliver around a core A novel roving, and spun yarn produced from the roving, have a core and a sheath arrangement with substantially 100 percent of a first type of fiber in the sheath, and for a second type of fiber having distinctly different properties than the first fiber,... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4630337 | Apparatus for doubling a fiber web A ribbon lap unit contains support shafts for receiving and supporting a lap, a web transport means in the form of a web drafting mechanism, a web diverter, a diverter plate arrangement and a web collecting element. A web unrolled from the lap is fed thro... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4577372 | Drawing frame Each drawing frame of a double drawing frame is provided with a diverting surface so that the transport direction of the infeed slivers removed from the cans to be emptied is arranged substantially at a right angle to the feed direction of these slivers o... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4470253 | Spinning frame, preferably ring spinning frame A spinning frame of the type having a main drafting zone through which two fiber bands move in spaced parallel relation for subsequent twisting into a single yarn is provided with a first pair of rollers located at the entrance to the main drafting zone, ... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4369622 | Method and apparatus for drawing and blending textile materials A method is disclosed for drawing and blending textile fiber and conductive metal filaments. The method is characterized by feeding at least one bundle of a first textile material through draw rollers of a drawing frame, unwinding at least one roll of a b... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4112548 | Drafting machine A machine for blending, matting, shortening or sizing natural or artificial fibers, in which the work is performed by groups or trains of three rollers. A first working stage has a single head delivering two slivers and in which the twin bearing rollers a... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4016629 | Fiber blending mechanism This invention relates to an apparatus and method for improving the homogeneity of textile fibers which are blended together in a textile drawing machine. Vertical posts are critically aligned with corresponding angled rods which are spaced between a pair... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3994046 | Composite sliver forming assembly Prearranged ribbons of fiber leaving the front drafting roll are superimposed into layers by a composite sliver forming assembly before entering a trumpet. The composite sliver forming assembly consists of tubular guides extending at an angle from the fro... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3952372 | Method and means for blending fiber strand segments in a base strand An unpredictable random distribution of segments of supplemental strands of fiber are produced in a base strand by pulling segments from the supplemental strands and adding them to the base strand. The segments are pulled from free extents of the suppleme... | 04/27/1976 |
