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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 |
| 8020706 | Fines removal apparatus and methods/systems regarding same Apparatus, methods and systems are used to separate fines from objects of a feed mixture being processed (e.g., iron bearing pellets, chips and dust). For example, at least a portion of an endless belt defining a channel is movable up an incline relative to horizont... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7431164 | Device and method for sorting products The invention relates to a device for sorting products, which device comprises adjacently arranged supporting units which are movable in a direction of transport along a conveying path, each supporting unit being provided with at least one load carrying platform com... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7347331 | Fines removal apparatus and methods/systems regarding same Apparatus, methods and systems are used to separate fines from objects of a feed mixture being processed (e.g., iron bearing pellets, chips and dust). For example, at least a portion of an endless belt defining a channel is movable up an incline relative to horizont... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337893 | Preform feeder system, particularly of a receptacle blowing machine, comprising means for ejecting badly positioned preforms A preform feeder system, particularly for feeding blow machines with receptacles such as bottles, of the type including, from upstream to downstream in the longitudinal direction of travel of the preforms, at least one sorting and alignment device whose top end is p... | 03/04/2008 |
| 6976591 | Food-stuff physical characteristic sorting apparatus and method A foodstuff seed sorting endless belt conveyor apparatus for sorting out premium quality seeds from a seed mixture having both premium and inferior grade seeds on the basis of seed physical characteristics develops an orbital motion that is superimposed upon the nor... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6921875 | Method for sequentially ordering objects using a single pass delivery point process A method using a single pass sequencer having a transport system for transporting the mail pieces to a transport system having a first carriage system and a second carriage system with a plurality of holders slidable between the first carriage system and the second ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6897395 | Mail sorter A mail sorter, which can reliably sort mail while avoiding the breakage and the recovery mistake of mail released from conveyor baskets, which move on the mail sorting line in circulation. The mail sorter has a conveyor line with a conveying forward run and a convey... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6758342 | Cereal grain sorting system and roll sorting machine A cereal grain sorting system includes a wind force sorting device, a rough sorting device and a roll sorting device. The wind force sorting device is operative for selectively sorting light weight foreign materials from feedstock cereal grains. The rough sorting de... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6702121 | Rotating sorting device and sorting method A rotating sorting device for sorting packaged goods has one or more linear supply conveyors and a plurality of removal locations arranged circularly about a central axle. One or more linear removal conveyors are positioned between the central axle and th... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6575305 | Arrangement for identifying and removing associated preforms from a continuous transfer line An apparatus transfers performs traveling along an inclined path from an upper loading station to a lower unloading station. The apparatus includes a device that includes plural rotary forks which rotate so as to engage and remove from the inclined path p... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6502684 | Selection and supply device for cylindrical-type products The invention relates to a mechanical device for the selection and supply of revolution cylinder type products, and more especially packaging components for photographic films. The device comprises a calibrated bent chute that includes a product supply sy... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6455797 | Device and method for sorting piece goods Piece goods are sorted with tilting tray sorters by recognizing when a large good needs two consecutive empty tilting trays in order to be inwardly transferred; locating a first, empty tilting tray; emptying a second tilting tray occupied by a good adjace... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6216879 | Fold sown sorting pan A fold down sorting pan for providing a surface for sorting small objects. The fold down sorting pan includes a mounting portion adapted for mounting to a wall or countertop. A support arm is pivotally coupled to the mounting portion. A tube is coupled to... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5725103 | Bend detector A bend detector for detecting a bend in headed rod members such as nails, screws, bolts, rivets and terminals. A guide plate, a base plate and a beam are mounted on a base which is being vibrated. Thus, a nail set in the bend detector is vibrated and roll... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5669511 | Grain sorting apparatus A grain sorting apparatus includes a conveyor belt mechanism for conveying grains, fed by a feed mechanism onto a conveying surface separately from each other at an upstream region with respect to a conveying direction, to a downstream end so that the gra... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5400909 | Device to discard short bars Device to discard short bars shorter than a predetermined length from a plurality of bars being fed by feeder that comprise a plurality of first conveyor chains (14a) and a matching plurality of second conveyor chains (14b), on which the bars (11) are pos... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5333738 | Process and installation for recovering valuable materials, in particular from waste material on building sites A method is proposed for recovering valuable substances, particularly from construction site wastes and industrial trash as well as a system for implementing the method in which the essential sorters are disposed in a closed container which can be placed ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5294004 | Article-holding cup and scale for apparatus that sorts articles by weight In an article sorting apparatus with two parallel, spaced-apart continuous conveyors which pass through a loading zone, a weighing zone, and a discharge zone, having fabric flaps disposed on spaced-apart rods connected between the two conveyors for gently... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5230432 | Apparatus for singulating parts An apparatus (19) for singulating a series of packages (17). The apparatus (19) includes a vertical wheel (12), a retainer spring (10), a gravity feed track (14), a pass track (15), and a reject track (16). The vertical wheel (12) comprises a plurality of... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5186307 | Transport device for removing interlocked preforms Preforms 1 for the manufacture of synthetic bottles are transported along a conveyor track 10 formed by two parallel slide-rails 11 arranged such that a perpendicular common to the two slide-rails is substantially horizontal. The preforms have heads 2 lar... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5163565 | System for separating particles in a rotary separator A rotary drum separator is provided having a plurality of elongated pockets that extend in the direction of pocket movement, wherein more than one kind of particle in a bulk mixture in the drum longitudinally may lodge in the pockets; wherein each of the ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5018619 | Conveyor belt dumping mechanism using horizontal idlers and impact slides An array of low friction impact slides for supporting a moving conveyor belt beneath a generally crescent-shaped section of the belt opening outwardly to one side thereof and beneath portions of the belt disposed proximate to but beyond the distal ends of... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5014858 | Refuse separator A trash separator that sorts bottles and cans from other, non-recyclable refuse. This separator consists of a slide 4 with an inlet 1 for all refuse at the top and an outlet 3 for the refuse at the bottom. The refuse is separated because the size and weig... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4930625 | Conveyor belt dumping mechanism using horizontal idlers of varying lengths An array of idlers supporting a conveyor belt except beneath a generally crescent-shaped section opening outwardly to one side thereof. The array includes idlers of various lengths and orientations. Each of the idlers is disposed perpendicularly to the ce... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4804093 | Method and apparatus for mechanically classifying rolling bodies A bowl feeder for separating damaged rolling bodies, for example nuclear fuel pellets, from sound ones includes a bowl (10) having a central conical section (12) for distributing the bodies radially outwardly towards a V-shaped circular channel (16) which... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4795554 | PLCC co-planarity measurement method and apparatus There is provided, a method and apparatus for determining if the lengths of all of the leads on all four sides of a PLCC packaged devices are within a selected tolerance of each other. To do so a relatively smooth surface across which the device is to be ... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4783887 | Machine for classifying, cleaning and arranging textile tubes A machine for classifying, cleaning and arranging textile tubes, including an intake section for bringing in both clean tubes and tubes containing yarn residue, a classifying section which circulates the tubes so that the clean tubes are separated from th... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4763793 | Installation for sorting articles by weight and shape A sorting installation for separating a first type of articles from a second type of articles fed mixed to the sorting installation. The articles of the first type are relatively light and substantially two-dimensional, while the articles of the second ty... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4760925 | Refuse sorting apparatus A sorting installation for separating a first type of articles (relatively light and substantially two-dimensional) from a second type of articles (relatively heavy and substantially three-dimensional), includes a travelling conveyor belt having an articl... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4638914 | Fruit selecting machine Fruit, which may be oblong fruit such as olives, are mechanically sorted into two separate vessels, depending on whether they are, or are not individually thick enough to be clamped between a reciprocating head and a plate, while the head and plate rotate... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4635785 | Sorter conveyor having laterally tiltable trays For controlling the selective lateral tilting of the conveying trays of a sorter conveyor there is provided, on each tray support, a crosswise oriented cylinder, which by a protruding radial arm, is turnable between a "normal" position and a "tilt" postio... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4538735 | Apparatus for separating solids of different shapes Apparatus for separating spherically-shaped solids from irregularly-shaped solids comprising a rotatable separating table having a frustoconically shaped upper surface, the angle of inclination of the upper surface with the horizontal being such that sphe... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4520933 | Device for stacking cut plates in plate shears A device for stacking plates or sheet metal blanks cut in guillotine shears includes a rotatable drum with radially outwardly extending partitions defining a number of compartments located around the circumferential outside surface of the drum and extendi... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4519507 | Apparatus for separating tacks from surveillance tags A bi-level ramp supported under a table with an access slot has a plurality of laterally spaced longitudinal ribs providing a series of channels on the upper level for supporting and extracting surveillance tags while the channels contain a plurality of s... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4462496 | Method and apparatus for separating spheres from non-spheres A method and apparatus for separating the spheres from the non-spheres in a large number of particles of lamp fill material of substantially equal mass in which the spheres are placed in the grooves of an inclined surface to roll downwardly thereon under ... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4422815 | Machine tool support and discharge apparatus Support and discharge apparatus (10) includes a pair of forward legs (20) which are pinned to the forward edge portion of a rectangularly-shaped table (14) and a pair of rear legs (22) pinned to the rear end portion of the table. Legs (20) and (22) are in... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4330064 | Broken package culling system A system for culling broken packages wherein the packages are transported while maintained between support means and restraining means in the form of narrow conveyor belts in such a manner that broken packages will tip under the influence of gravity and b... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330061 | Method and apparatus for detecting and segregating defective commodities from a series of discrete commodities Cigarette packs which leave a packing machine by moving sideways so that one of the major surfaces of each pack faces forwardly are monitored for the presence of defective envelopes during travel between two endless belt conveyors. When the monitoring sys... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4254877 | Weight sizing apparatus A sorting apparatus classifies and discharges articles, such as items of agricultural produce, in accordance with their individual weights. A multichannel conveyor cooperates with a front end singulator which receives the produce from a source of supply a... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4181603 | Capsule sorting apparatus An apparatus is provided for sorting out pharmaceutical capsule components from assembled capsules and comprises a pair of spaced plates containing a plurality of holes which allow unassembled pharmaceutical caps and bodies to fall through the holes and y... | 01/01/1980 |
