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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 |
| 6751889 | Photographic media dryer A dryer has a blower and means for dividing an airflow into two separate chambers. A drying channel is defined between the two chambers and material to be dried passes along the channel. The walls between the chambers and the channel are apertured to allow air to fl... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6631567 | Apparatus for removing a fluid component from particulized solid materials The invention concerns an apparatus for the removal of moisture from particulized, solid food products, comprising; a housing (9); a perforated plate (2), creating two chambers (3, 4) in the housing (1), gas-inlets (5, 6), present below the perforated pla... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6470598 | Deckel edge profiler An adjustable deckel profiler is disclosed, for use in apparatus for drying a moving paper web. The profiler is a slidable member which interacts with impingement air to control and adjust the air against the moving web. Means are provided for adjusting a... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6397495 | Web steering air flotation device for printing equipment An air bar for steering a web of material has a hollow interior subjected to an air bar supply pressure. At least one air jet exit is connected to the hollow interior of the air bar. A metering device is assigned to the hollow interior of the air bar for ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6128832 | Method and system for providing conditioned air A system and method for providing conditioned air to a yarn traveling on a textile machine includes an air conditioning unit local to said textile machine and configured to receive input air and to condition the air to a first desired relative humidity. A... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6108931 | Continuous dryer for flat workpieces A drying apparatus has a housing, a conveyor for displacing a flat workpiece horizontally in a travel direction through the housing on a level, and a horizontal array of horizontally elongated upper nozzle boxes lying generally in a plane above the level.... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5471766 | Method in contact-free air-drying of a material web as well as a nozzle-blow-box and a pulp dryer that make use of the method The invention relates to a method for air-drying material webs, in particular material webs of relatively high grammage such as pulp webs. The invention also relates to a nozzle-blow-box and a pulp dryer that make use of the method. Air blowings in a dire... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5411251 | Sheet delivery of a printing machine with a floating conveyor Sheet delivery of a printing machine having a gripper system running on an endless conveyor includes air containers located adjacent the endless conveyor and being formed with a sheet-wide field of air-outlet openings, the gripper system including gripper... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5370289 | Airfoil floater apparatus for a running web Apparatus including a single sided airfoil floater conveyor for floatingly conveying a running web of indeterminate length. The apparatus has a series of longitudinal air bars arranged in parallelism and spaced along the path of web movement. The bars hav... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5355595 | Steam box A steam box includes a system for distributing steam onto a web being calendered. At least one valve is connected to the steam distributing system for controlling the flow of steam onto the web. The steam box also has element for feeding hot steam to the ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 4785986 | Paper web handling apparatus having improved air bar with dimensional optimization Apparatus for drying a running paper web and floatingly suspending it without contact during the drying process, including air bars which are considerably larger than conventional air bars, for example, being about five and one-fourth inches square in cro... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4768695 | Air bar for paper web handling apparatus and having an air distributing chamber and perforated plate therefor An air bar for apparatus for drying a running paper web and floatingly suspending it without contact during the drying process, the air bars being spaced along both the upper and lower surface of the web. The air bars have an air distribution chamber incl... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4108242 | Jet impingement heat exchanger A heat exchanger for directing discrete jets of fluid against a heat exchanging wall is configured to establish relatively close spacing between the openings through which the jets are formed and a portion of the heat exchanging wall while providing relat... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4096643 | Paper web streak drying system A moisture profiling apparatus is provided for use with continuous running webs, particularly paper but useful for other permeable webs, having a series of adjacent compartments extending transversely of the web guide means and provided with means to sele... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4077137 | Graphic arts film dryer A film dryer for the graphics arts, including a plurality of pairs of squeegee rollers feeding the film through the dryer, and removing water therefrom in the feeding operation. Air is drawn in and directed against the film to dry the film, the air passin... | 03/07/1978 |
| 3994443 | Cleaning jaws for miniaturized objects A miniaturized object cleaning apparatus which is portable and adjustable including two juxtaposed concave, allochiral, elongated tubular jaws containing opposed openings for passage of ionized air in the form of jets to remove fine dust particles from sa... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3936953 | Air impingement system Method and apparatus for drying a moving web utilizing one or more air caps each including an apertured plate together with a high pressure plenum which is arranged to deliver high pressure air through the apertures in the plate to impinge against the web... | 02/10/1976 |
