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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 |
| 7228620 | Tape guide and magazine at a component machine A tape guide for guiding a carrier tape in a component mounting machine, a tape magazine for receiving the tape guide, and a system including the tape guide and the tape magazine. The carrier tape carries components that are positioned in sequence on the carrier tap... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7181946 | Device for winding and unwinding hot-rolled pre-strips consisting of hot metal The aim of the invention is to configure a device for winding and unwinding partly rolled products, in a way that ensures the smallest possible accumulation of scrap. To achieve this, a roller (20, 20′, 20″) whose position is controlled and which runs on ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178691 | Toilet paper storage and dispenser container A toilet paper storage and dispenser container in which to store and manually dispense rolls of toilet paper. The container comprises a convex container front in the form of a slidable face plate and a removable lid, an access door in which to extract a roll and a f... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7094015 | Device for conveying empty rolls A device is used to convey empty rolls that have been removed by at least one roll changer of a web-fed rotary printing press. At least one empty roll receptacle can be displaced between the roll changer, where the empty rolls are held by the receptacle after they a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7063245 | System for dispensing plurality of wet wipes There is provided a wet wipes dispensing system. The system includes a plurality of separably joined wet wipes and the plurality of separably joined wet wipes include a lubricant. The system also includes a dispenser including a sealed chamber, the sealed chamber ho... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6955031 | Mushroom packing apparatus The present invention provides a mushroom packing apparatus comprising a grading conveyor and a plurality of locations distributed under a longitudinal axis of the grading conveyor, each location being provided, in use, with a container for collecting the mushrooms ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6782606 | Tape guide and magazine at a component machine A tape guide for guiding a carrier tape in a component mounting machine, a tape magazine for receiving the tape guide, and a system including the tape guide and the tape magazine. The carrier tape carries components that are positioned in sequence on the carrier tap... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6737138 | Tail for attaching trailing edge of one roll of tape to leading edge of another roll of tape A tail for adhering the tailing edge of a first roll of tape that is being fed to an application device to the leading edge of a second roll of tape without stopping the tapes includes a bulge which is located in the tail and has an adhesive coating on each side. A ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6694606 | Electric-component supplying apparatus and circuit-board assembling method for feeding a plurality of electric-component tapes An apparatus for feeding a plurality of electric-component tapes each of which includes a carrier tape and holds a plurality of electric components in a lengthwise direction of the carrier tape, and supplying, from the each electric-component tape, the el... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6546619 | Electronic device mounting system and method An electronic device mounting apparatus prevents an error at the setup time prior to startup of the apparatus and enables mounting of proper electronic devices without a mistake. A cartridge and a lane of a cartridge mounting rack have a cartridge side co... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6508432 | Dual toilet roll dispenser The invention is a toilet paper dispenser designed to hold two rolls of toilet paper. The dispenser has a housing containing a primary roll support and a secondary roll support. The secondary roll support is disposed parallel to and vertically above the p... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6491250 | Rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus A rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus including a plurality of feeders each of which stores a plurality of circuit components of a same sort and which supplies the components one by one from a component-supply portion thereof, at least one r... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6209819 | Device and method for automatic changing of film rolls Device and method for changing film rolls, with apparatus for holding a first film roll in a working position in which film can be pulled off and separated from the film roll as desired, and holding a second film roll in a standby position. The second fil... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6193227 | Continuously feeding sheets with coil unwind control A method of and an apparatus for feeding a processing machine with flat products, such as printed sheets, cards, patterns or the like. Over a conveyor path arranged between a storage unit and the processing machine and forming a product storage unit, the ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5934604 | Center drive unwind system A center driven unwind system for core-equipped parent rolls includes a frame for supporting the parent roll while it is being unwound, a parent roll placement cart for moving a parent roll from a loading position to the unwinding position on the frame, a... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5478027 | Web unwinding apparatus and method An apparatus is illustrated for unwinding a web, such as cloth or paper, which utilizes a driven belt having a width in excess of the width of the web forming a cradle for a cloth roll and the like with elements for adjusting the path of travel of the bel... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5209418 | Web unwinding apparatus and method An apparatus is illustrated for unwinding a web, such as cloth or paper, which utilizes a driven belt having a width in excess of the width of the web forming a cradle for a cloth roll and the like with adjusters for adjusting the path of travel of the be... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5156241 | Method of automatically breaking and removing a nearly depleted lap bobbin and an apparatus for carrying out the same A method of automatically breaking and removing a nearly depleted lap (3), comprising steps of moving down the nearly depleted lap (3) held at the opposite ends thereof by a lap holding device (7) through the increased gap between the pair of lap rollers ... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5079899 | Band reel replacing and band loading method and apparatus A band strapping machine having more than one supply reel and having a mechanism that automatically loads a band from a second supply reel when a first supply reel becomes empty. The trailing end of a band from the first band reel is grabbed so that it is... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5031666 | Cloth beam changer with resilient transmission link on gripping arm A cloth beam changer includes a conveyor having gripping arms which carry gripping elements at the ends. A transmission is provided in the form of a slide with a spindle and nut arrangement for raising and lowering the slide. A guide rail and stop are pro... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4944470 | Laminator unwind roll stand A method and apparatus to splice a new roll of fabric or material to a roll of material being dissipated from a roll stand by supply to a material consuming machine. The invention includes a pivotally mounted vacuum device which supplies the end of the ne... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4903910 | Roll core releasing device In a rolled object holdiing apparatus whose holding members hold both ends of a roll core, a roll core releasing device comprises a core pushing mechanism which in turn consists of a core pushing member and a driving means for moving the core pushing memb... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4892263 | Unwinding apparatus for a paper or board web An intermittently operating unwinding apparatus has a splicing unit with a cross member which is movable against and at right angles to the web expiring from a winding roll. With a separating device positionable against the cross member from the other sid... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4882006 | System for stretching and severing strip-like resin sheet A system stretches and severs a strip-like resin sheet unwound from a sheet roll to produce a product of a prescribed shape, the system having a stretching device having forming members for stretching the strip-like resin sheet into a fan-shaped resin she... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4881695 | Unwinding apparatus for paper or board web rolls An intermittently operating unwinding apparatus has a separating device with which a web-end is formed on the lifting-out of an empty spool from the guide ways of an unwind unit. A holding device holds the web-end in a plane which extends parallel to the ... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4869436 | Laminator unwind roll stand A method and apparatus to continuously unwind fabric or material from a roll stand by splicing a new roll of material to a roll of material being unwound without interrupting the supply of material to a material consuming machine. The unwinding apparatus ... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4832272 | Laminator unwind roll stand An apparatus to splice a new roll of fabric or material to a roll of material being dissipated from a roll stand by supply to a material consuming machine. The invention includes a pivotally mounted vacuum device which supplies the end of the new material... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4828199 | Process and device for removing residual parts of rolled coils in strip rolling mills The invention relates to a process for removing the residual part of coils from a sheet or strip rolling mill in which the coils to be rolled are transported from the coil store to the uncoiling reel in a two-stroke process by means of a transportation fa... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4767076 | Mechanism for automatically feeding collecting elongated core of fabrics A mechanism for automatically feeding and collecting elongated cores of rolled fabric, which is used with an unrolling machine for unrolling fabric from the cores. The mechanism includes elongated frames on which endless link chains circulate with pairs o... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4684075 | Toilet paper dispenser A paper roll dispenser is provided within a housing adapted to be wall mounted. The dispenser comprises a vertically disposed open ended tube mounted inside the housing which is adapted to receive a plurality of rolls of paper. The bottom end of the tube ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4662577 | Toilet tissue dispenser A toilet tissue dispenser having an automatic locking device for preventing theft of toilet tissue rolls, in which the dispenser is of substantial construction capable of having full rolls of toilet tissue inserted from the top and contained securely ther... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4389026 | Dispensing container for rolled products A roll of material, e.g., toilet tissue, rests ready for use upon the middle portion of a swivel support. The roll can be manually placed in optimum position through lateral apertures. When the roll is empty, a front flap of the swivel support, extending ... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4366932 | Axially displaceable reel holder for packing machine webs A reel 12 for a web of packaging material, such as metal foil for wrapping cigarettes, is axially extendable outwardly from the machine base 10 to facilitate web roll replacement. Such extension, and retraction, is implemented by a double acting pneumatic... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4298173 | Apparatus for unwinding of a material web The present invention relates to an apparatus for unwinding a material web (19), for example a paper web, which is wound up on a core (18), for example a paper core. It is desirable to be able to reuse cores and remnant paper webs thereon separately. Howe... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4066220 | Copy paper storing and feeding apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for storing and feeding copy paper for a copying machine in which the copy paper is stored in roll form and is cut to desired length by measuring and cutting mechanism provided in the copying machine. The portion of the apparatus... | 01/03/1978 |
| 3972487 | Loading device for reels of paper tape A loading device for reels of paper tape wound on a central spool is provided with an automatic device for ejecting the empty spools, by introducing a new full reel.... | 08/03/1976 |
