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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 |
| 7926645 | Air conveyor An apparatus comprises a conveying element arranged for conveying objects, an advancing promoting arrangement for promoting a movement of the objects along the conveying element, the advancing promoting arrangement comprising a bristle arrangement arranged along the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7287642 | Trippable idler roller assembly for belt conveyors An idler roller assembly comprises a base frame which includes first and second spaced-apart mounting brackets, a support frame which includes a support tube that comprises a first end which is positioned adjacent the first mounting bracket and a second end which is... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7004710 | Hydraulic battery changer A hydraulic battery changer for pulling and pushing batteries into a conventional electric vehicle having a height adjustable leg connected to a frame for raising and lowering the frame. A roller is rotatably connected to the frame for receiving a conventional elect... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000759 | Conveyor conversion kit for replacing rollers within a conveyor system and method An endless loop belt conveyor system that is free of rollers is produced from a roller conveyor or a powered endless belt roller conveyor using a conversion kit. The conversion kit includes at least one endless loop belt conveyor guide; and at least two conveyor gui... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6948430 | Printing plate conveyor system A conveyor system for transporting a printing plate in a platemaking system includes: a carriage riding on a track and one or more low friction substantially horizontal planar support surfaces provided as a high wear laminate, positioned above the carriage and the t... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6505483 | Glass transportation system A pressure pad array is used to float glass sheets from a glass heating furnace to a ring mold in a press bending station. The pressure pads have transversely spaced, longitudinally-extending slotted nozzles angled towards one another to provide a static ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6371281 | Conveyor device A conveyor device for position-precisely moving objects on a conveyor surface of the conveyor belt includes a plurality of forward feed elements (42) for taking hold of the objects by their rear bottom edge in relation to the forward direction. Tension me... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6336775 | Gas floating apparatus, gas floating-transporting apparatus, and thermal treatment apparatus A gas floating-transporting apparatus transports a material to be treated along a predetermined direction in a thermal space so as to thermally treat the material to be treated. The apparatus includes a gas floating mechanism and a transporting mechanism.... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6305555 | Wear shoe for sludge collector A wear shoe for mounting to a flight of a sludge collector. The wear shoe snaps into a surface of the flight at a desired location and is held in place with no additional fasteners or hardware. The wear shoe is able to be utilized with any channel-type fl... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6189682 | Position control apparatus and method for controlling the movement of a block in a woodworking machine The present invention provides an automatic lug loader to place blocks on each lug on a lug conveyor in a finger jointing machine. The lug loader includes a support structure with a control station and a feed table. A powered loading conveyor overlies the... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6168011 | Accumulation conveyor system An accumulation conveyor system for transporting piece goods along a predetermined path is disclosed. The system comprises a passively transporting element and an actively transporting element. The passively transporting element comprises a series of idle... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6138815 | Conveyor system for load-carrying carts A cart conveyor system for the transport of load-carrying carts, as frequently used in airports, supermarkets, etc. up and down inclined pathways. The cart is provided with front and back wheels with different spacing, and the conveyor has separate tracks... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6105757 | Rail and bed system A rail comprising a rail member and at least one plug is used to direct the flow of objects along a predetermined path of an assembly line or conveyor belt system or to support the weight of the objects thereon. In its preferred embodiments, a stainless s... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5964568 | Device for gripping and handling pieces of sheet material and manipulator of pieces of sheet material comprising this device The device comprises a transfer unit with a block (44) containing wells (48) in which suckers (50) are located. The wells (48) comprise a border (72) made of a sealing and friction material. The peripheral wall (60) of the sucker (50) is flexible enough t... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5947258 | Integrated circuit boat retrieval mechanism A boat retrieval mechanism, which move an output boat containing a tested integrated circuit package within an IC package handler of an IC package testing system, is designed for low maintenance and for easy maintenance. The boat retrieval mechanism of th... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5885458 | Wear strip assembly for use in a waste water treatment facility There is provided an a wear strip assembly for use in a waste water treatment facility comprising an anchor plate secured to the bottom of a tank and a wear strip disposed around the anchor plate having a c-shaped cross section. The wear strip may be slid... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5620601 | Wear strip assembly for use in a waste water treatment facility There is provided an a wear strip assembly for use in a waste water treatment facility comprising an anchor plate secured to the bottom of a tank and a wear strip disposed around the anchor plate having a c-shaped cross section. The wear strip may be slid... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5593019 | Chain return support A chain return support suitable for use in an en masse grain conveyor has a track with a pair of angle irons extending lengthwise in the interior of a trough and supported by horizontal cross members bridging two side walls of the trough. The angle irons ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5518355 | Automated container transferring and loading system and a method therefor An automated container transferring and loading system having a large number of carriage retracting lanes disposed orthogonally with respect to a row of stage conveyors of a cargo sorting yard, a carriage tow device for retracting a plurality of connected... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5478064 | Delivering and stacking short grain forms Apparatus is provided for preventing a sheet drooping during sheet feeding in a first direction in a generally horizontal plane where a sheet is not entirely supported by a conveyor. A rod is mounted below the plane, having at least one collar with a supp... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5460727 | Water and waste treatment systems A novel waste water clarifier system for use in long settling basins utilizes a novel high strength-to-low mass ratio chain loop system of non-metallic material in a low friction drive and support system in which roller contact is facilitated at all point... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5431272 | Part moving mechanism To move or remove a workpiece from a worktable, as for example a finished workpiece from a work station, an elongate conveyer member, once it has been positioned so that at least a portion thereof is superposed over the finished workpiece, is lowered to c... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5413203 | Methods and apparatus for transporting and positioning micro-mechanical parts A process and apparatus for transporting micro-mechanical parts, for example surgical needles, on a liquid surface by holding the parts on the liquid surface on account of the surface tension of the liquid, such that a predetermined path is formed and sub... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5317941 | Slitting overwidth metal strip An overwidth slitting method slits a metal strip into two lengthwise pieces while trimming the side edges from the strip. The metal strip is placed on parallel spaced apart conveyors adjacent a slitter for conveying the strip to the slitter. The conveyors... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5192066 | Device for transporting sheets in office machines A device for transporting individual sheets of a sheet-form recording medium in office machines comprises an endless circulating conveyor belt for transporting the sheets. A pressure device holds sheets positively against the conveyor belt, and has a flat... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5186596 | Loading and unloading apparatus A longitudinal extensible platform comprises a plurality of framed sections hingedly joined together. Each framed section comprises a first set of ground engaging rollers and a second set of load engaging rollers extending transversely of the framed secti... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5180049 | Device for supporting and transporting a metal sheet in relation to a workstation at which the metal sheet is to be punched and/or sheared A metal sheet is supported and transported in relation to a punching and/or shearing station, by supporting the sheet on upwardly projecting flexible bristles, the tips of which define a supporting plane. The bristles have their bases embedded in strips t... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5147047 | Pellet inspection system A method and apparatus for inspecting cylindrically configured pellets for surface defects is disclosed. At least one axially extending linear portion of the peripheral surface of the pellet is optically sensed. A set of discrete digital values representa... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5131241 | Method for freezing food products in containers, and an automatic plate freezer for implementing the method A method and an automatic plate freezer for freezing food products in boxes or trays, or in containers of low mechanical strength and therefore being deformable, or of nonparallelepiped shape. Such boxes or containers are frozen in a plate freezer within which... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5107981 | Device with flow medium stratification for positioning and/or transporting unit loads The device disclosed comprises a support surface for unit loads, on which a load-bearing flow medium cushion, in particular an air cushion, can be constructed. Passages in the support surface communicate through a channel with a pressure source for the fl... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5052546 | Conveyor having a circulating article carrier element A conveyor apparatus for advancing articles in a direction of conveyance, including a conveyor track on which the articles are supported; an endless driven conveyor element and an article carrier device including an article carrier element pivotally suppo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5027941 | Apparatus for conveying glass plates standing on edge The apparatus comprises a bottom edge supporting conveyor and an inclined planar supporting wall. The supporting wall is formed along its bottom edge with a plurality of air exit slots, which are arranged in a row and receive air from a fan. Additional ai... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5007525 | Belt and chain flight conveyor A conveyor including a chain flight conveyor superimposed over an elastic belt conveyor. The juxtaposition of the two conveyors results in longer wear and less erosive friction when compared to sole chain flight systems.... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4972234 | Endless belt with recess for receiving sheet feeding grippers An apparatus for feeding a printing sheet in a printer, including a gripper feeding belt for carrying grippers which grip a leading end of the printing sheet to feed it along a horizontal sheet feeding path; a plurality of toner printing units used for pr... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4909372 | Mechanical handling apparatus A mechanical handling apparatus has a top plate covering a raisable and lowerable roller bed and resiliently secured in place such that the plate may shift longitudinally of the roller bed under load, but resiliently return to substantially its original p... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4909378 | Mechanical handling apparatus Mechanical handling apparatus for moving a load over a support surface comprises an endless powered conveyor device which extends substantially over at least part of the length of the support and is trained round guides or pulleys rotatable about substant... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4887937 | Load carrying floor A load carrying floor, more particularly of a load transporting vehicle, provided with a number of roller tracks disposed parallel to one another, on which a load may be displaced across the floor with low frictional resistance, displacement and holding d... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4787178 | Fluid-jet cutting apparatus A sheet of glass or similar material is moved to and in the cutting area of the apparatus by sheet gripping assemblies that engage and grip an edge portion of the sheet, and that undergo precise controlled movement. A fluid-jet discharging nozzle moves ab... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4759436 | Equipment for conveying objects An equipment is provided for conveying objects in a curved path. The equipment includes at least one driven conveyor with a radius of curvature appropriate to the conveying path and provided with a plurality of mutually spaced flights for engaging and sup... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4732265 | Apparatus for the accumulating conveying of goods In an apparatus for accumulating conveying of goods constructed in the form of a roller conveyor with rollers (10, 12) in which via inflatable hose sections (42) a chain (28) is adapted to be brought into engagement with the goods to be conveyed, between ... | 03/22/1988 |
