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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 |
| 7140089 | Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device One embodiment of the present invention is a compact, low-cost, lightweight, versatile and easy-to-operate, processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device (“PCCMPS machine”). The PCCMPS machine that represents one embodiment of the present inventi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6832879 | Machine tool for at least partial contour-dependent cutting or milling A machine tool (1) for the at least partial machining, contour-dependent cutting or milling of a component from a plate-shaped workpiece (2), for example a wood plate, is provided, and includes a suction device used as a clamping device for engaging on... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6666246 | Automated planer machine An automated planer machine for planing a piece of lumber. The planer machine has a feed table for slidably receiving the bottom surface of the piece of lumber along a traveling course. One or more planing heads extend on sides of the traveling course to ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6405769 | Material-recovery apparatus Material-recovery apparatus for obtaining usable, uniformly-dimensioned blanks from scrap. Apparatus is small, and economical in manufacture and operation, using only a single lifting jack and vertical support unit to support the tool-and-feed-roller hous... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6247511 | Method and apparatus for cutting wooden plates A rotatable roll is provided under a planing cylinder rotating at a fixed position. A front feed unit and a rear feed unit having an upper and a lower roll for gripping the plate are provided upstream and downstream of the planing cylinder with respect to... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6196283 | Woodworking machine A woodworking machine, in particular a trimming machine, of working elongate workpieces such as timbers, beams, boards and the like is proposed, the workpiece resting on a support and a longitudinally movable coupling element guiding the workpiece to work... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6035910 | Process and apparatus for producing narrow veneer strips The invention relates to a process and apparatus for producing veneer strips of predetermined length, width and thickness from wood. The apparatus has a severing tool for dividing the wood to be machined into boards, a clamp for clamping the boards, and a... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5884545 | Log sawing assembly There is provided a device for sawing logs to a predetermined length which includes a log lead-in support member, a log support frame, a log cutting station and a log collection deck. The log support frame includes a front end, a rear end, opposite sides ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5765617 | Infeed system for lumber An infeed system that orients a log for a processing unit. A flight conveyor, a log turner and a sharp chain are in an overlapping arraignment. The flight conveyor conveys a log past a scanner which inputs scan data into a computer which determines the pr... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5482098 | Feeding device for curved workpieces A device for feeding a curved workpiece is presented. A shaping device incorporating a feeding device of the present invention comprises a base; a cutting head projecting vertically above the base for shaping the workpiece; and a jig mounted to the base f... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5373880 | Method of continuously processing chopsticks as well as an apparatus for carrying out the method A method of continuously processing chopsticks (35), the outer shape of which is defined by two mutually parallel surfaces and two opposing, plane, oblique surfaces (5, 6) inclining towards one another by the same inclination seen relative to a common pla... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5322104 | Flail drum machines and methods A flail drum system has an upper rotary chain flail drum and a lower rotary chain flail drum longitudinally downstream from the upper drum. Wood product advancing mechanism on the machine frame moves the logs forwardly while spreading them and creates a d... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5284192 | Automatic planing machine An automatic planning machine for cutting a surface of a workpiece which includes: a base portion on which the workpiece is to be laid; a feeding device for feeding the workpiece; a rotatable cutter block arranged on one side of the base portion with a ro... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5176190 | Automatic planing machine An automatic planing machine has two feed rollers on one side of the machine and a stool for holding two pressure rollers which are pressed toward the feed rollers with a pressure force smaller than a pressure force of the feed rollers. The machine has a ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5174348 | Automatic planning machine An automatic planning machine has a vertical stationary stool functioning to cut a workpiece flatly and a vertical movable stool opposed to the stationary stool. The stationary stool has a plurality of feed rollers while the movable stool has a plurality ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5156257 | Woodworking machine, such as a traversing sanding machine A woodworking machine of the traversing type for carrying items (23) on a vacuum conveyor belt (3) is provided with a number of compressed air nozzles (10) which direct a stream of air towards the items (23) on the belt, the nozzles (10), being connected ... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5148846 | Workpiece guide A workpiece guide to help feed boards into a woodworking machine such as a power saw. The guide is adapted to hold the board against the guide fence as the board is fed into the saw by pressing a knurled wheel down against the board. The wheel is slightly... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5127454 | Molding machines for woodworking In a through feed molder, each tool is mounted to a slide and provided with a dust hood that also carries two conventional hold-down guides, rigidly attached, one on each side of the hood. A mechanism operating between the hood and the slide permits match... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5123464 | Table saw power feed A board pulling device for use with a powered table saw or similar woodworking tool. The puller is readily removable and attachable to most similar tools and uses a novel springing roller to hold the work piece against the pulling roller. The puller is mo... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5115846 | Rapid-action, anti-jolt edger charger system A lumber workpiece charger system for an edger wherein transfer of a workpiece occurs under rapid non-jolting control for pieces positioning, with the workpiece, throughout its delivery, clamped in proper orientation for hand-off to the edger.... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5090460 | Molding machines for woodworking In a through feed molder, at least one of the horizontal tools is equipped with a dust hood that also carries the two-hold-down guides rigidly attached one on each side. The hood is connected to the tool slide by way of a mechanism that permits matching o... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5007469 | Pressing apparatus for a processing machine A pressing apparatus for a processing machine, especially a woodworking machine, preferably a grooving machine, including at least one adjustable pressing element that is provided for the workpiece which is to be processed and that is associated with a pr... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4991636 | Timber planing machines A machine for planing lengths of timber comprises mutually perpendicular spindles for cutter blocks (7,8). The spindle carrying the cutter block (8) extends below a machine bed (1). The spindle carrying the cutter block (7) extends across the bed (1). A c... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4886099 | Woodworking machine with feeding system The feeding system comprises feed rollers intended for the automatic delivery, advance, and ejection of workpieces. The feed rollers are all driven jointly by a single drive facility via various belt or chain drives; they all have the same peripheral spee... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4830075 | Device for holding down and guiding workpiece plates A device for holding down and guiding workpiece plates to be machined on a wood working machine and advanced along a straightedge to ensure that the workpiece plates during the feed movement remain with one of their trimmed longitudinal edges in steady co... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4764061 | Clamping mechanism for an automatic drilling machine An improved clamping mechanism for clamping a workpiece as it is moved through an automatic drilling machine. A workpiece, such as a wide flange beam, is supported and conveyed on a plurality of lower rollers, and a group of upper rollers are moved into c... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4708181 | Feed works for veneer chippers An improved apparatus is described for chipping a resilient material such as layers of scrap wood veneer of the type that includes feeding the resilient material across an anvil into contact with a rapidly moving chipping blade. The apparatus includes a c... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4640056 | Vertically self-centering feed assembly A belt driven feed assembly having a plurality of floating passive pinch wheels and a plurality of floating drive wheels, staggered and offset from one another, for conveying flat stock having irregular upper and lower surfaces. The drive and pinch wheels... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4637443 | Saw assembly A saw assembly for reducing logs while passing the logs at least once through the assembly and resawing the resultant sawn blocks while re-passing the blocks at least once through the saw assembly. The assembly comprises a pair of chippers (1) and at leas... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4583574 | Flaker for trunk and residual wood Disclosed is a flaker for trunk and residual wood for the direct production of a mass of chips free of splinters and low in fines. Flaking takes place within a blade rotor equipped with a replaceable blade ring, which together with its housing may be move... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4576212 | Device in a machine tool for maintaining a workpiece displaced in its longitudinal direction, in engagement with the tool A device in a machine tool for maintaining a workpiece which is being worked during displacement in the longitudinal direction, in engagement with the tool. The device consists of a first pair of rigidly interconnected arms which, at one end, are pivotall... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4531438 | Antikickback hold-down safety device for table saws The present invention is directed to a safety device for standard table-mounted saws whereby a board is firmly restrained thereon while the sawblade rotates to saw the board in a longitudinal plane. The device utilizes a pair of vertically oriented, sprin... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4519429 | Log shaper A machine for forming a smooth surface on a cylindrical log workpiece as it is moved longitudinally past a cutting station which includes both shaping and planing blades. The same cutting pass also includes a cove cutting operation to cut a longitudinal c... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4499933 | Manual work-feeding device and guard body for shaping machines A manual work-feeding device and guard body for a shaping machine. The device provides direct access to the cutting tool and further provides for in-process visual inspection while protecting the operator from injury.... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4362195 | Portable log debarking apparatus An elongated infeed frame supporting a debarking unit has a trailer-like structure so that it is readily portable and can be transported into a logging or debarking area. An off-bearing frame is also portable for easy transportation to the area. Each of t... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4055097 | Automatic cutter for armored cable An automatic BX cable cutter including a cable guide and clamp, a circular saw carried by a floating pivoted carriage actuated between cutting and inactive positions by a cam, the machine being so electrically coordinated that, when the saw motor is start... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4009741 | Woodworking machine A woodworking machine capable of simultaneously making a number of cuts through stock material and shaping opposed edges simultaneously to form a plurality of pieces finished on all sides. The woodworking machine includes feeding means capable of feeding ... | 03/01/1977 |
