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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 |
| 7431833 | Flowable material vessel A vessel is provided for treating flowable materials and methods of use wherein the vessel has a substantially cardioid cross-sectional configuration with a central cusp defining two upper rounded lobes. A front and rear wall enclose the ends of the sidewall with on... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7080463 | Food drying, mixing and serving apparatus A salad spinner and mixer may be made from two substantially identical transparent bowls that can be joined together at their rims to define a chamber; two substantially identical colanders that can be joined together at their rims and received within the chamber; a... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6808375 | Expanded porous thermoplastic polymer membranes and device for the production thereof Open celled membranes from thermoplastic polymers are prepared from foamed polymer melts by extrusion through a die. ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6733671 | Apparatus for treating fluids Treatment apparatus comprising a chamber (11) for treatment of a process fluid and having at least two regions in each of which the process fluid is caused to follow a circulating path, in which the location of openings (13, 14) for introduction and re... | 05/11/2004 |
| 5636921 | Powder dispersing apparatus with movable powder storing member A powder dispersing apparatus which can disperse every given amount of sample powder in a gas even when the amount is small, thereby continuously generating dispersed powder or floating powder at a desired concentration. The powder dispersing apparatus in... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5220865 | Peeling apparatus A peeling apparatus comprises a support shaft which is laterally mounted on a frame, a container arranged on the outside of the support shaft and having an inner surface which is curved with respect to an axis of the support shaft and with respect to an a... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5201265 | Apparatus for preparation of Sushi rice Apparatus for preparing Sushi rice, and discharging opening provided at one end thereof, which is openably closed by a lid having a ventilation opening formed in a central portion thereof, the rotatable container being rotatable about a lateral axis of ro... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5169231 | Apparatus for blending boiled rice and vinegar and preparing vinegared rice An apparatus for blending boiled rice and vinegar including a rotatable agitating vessel which is mounted so as to be positioned to face both upwards and sideways. A blower is provided to blow air into the vessel when it is facing sideways to further aid ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5050528 | Rotary drum granulating and coating apparatus A granulating and coating method featuring that a coating liquid and a binder liquid are fed into a rotary drum so as to carry out granulating and coating of a powdery and/or granular material, wherein the coating is performed while a gas is blown out to ... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5038709 | Granulating and coating apparatus A granulating and coating apparatus in which a rotary drum containing powdery or granular material is rotated about the substantially horizontal axis for granulating and/or coating the powdery or granular material. The apparatus is provided with a disk va... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4971449 | Drum type agitating and mixing machine A drum type agitating and mixing machine for treating garments or fabric in liquid such as in washing or dyeing wherein a rotatable drum partially submerged in liquid along one side includes inwardly projecting hollow ribs arranged to contain air when the... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4785728 | Rotary pickles making device A rotary pickles making device comprises a base body including spaced drive and guide rollers rotatably mounted in the body, and a drum-shaped pickling casing for containing therein pickling stuffs. The casing is placed on the drive and guide rollers to b... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4774100 | Method for the batchwise production of aerated sweets in a pressure-beating machine The invention concerns a method for the batchwise production of aerated sweets in a pressure-beating machine, wherein--according to the invention--the sugar mass to be aerated is boiled with the omission of an underpressure treatment, is conducted to the ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4666730 | Method for continuously processing boiled and vacuumized confectionery masses The invention relates to a method for continuously processing boiled and vacuumized confectinery masses, especially bonbon masses like hard and soft caramel masses, fondant masses, etc., in a mixer, which the mass being processed travels through while sim... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4499847 | Apparatus for coating granules such as dragee pellets with a hardenable substance A drum rotating about a horizontal axis, designed to coat dragee pellets or other granules with a hardenable substance, has a polygonal--preferably nine-sided--peripheral wall and corresponding frustopyramidal end walls. The peripheral wall consists of an... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4474683 | Soap making process A process for the preparation of soap and soap/synthetic detergent products from raw materials normally employed in the manufacture of such products including fatty acids, triglycerides and caustic or alkali by subjecting such raw materials to intensive c... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4397760 | Rapid saponification process A process for the preparation of soap and soap/synthetic detergent products from raw materials normally employed in the manufacture of such products including fatty acids, triglycerides and caustic by subjecting such raw materials to intensive countercurr... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4382900 | Centrifugal gas-liquid contact apparatus In centrifugal gas-liquid contact apparatus, liquid hold-up is reduced by the provision of guide means to separate the liquid outflow from the gas inflow to the rotor.... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4300447 | Nut blancher A device and a method for either the continuous or the batchwise removal (blanching) of skins from peanuts and other nut products are provided. The nut blanching device includes a rotatable cylinder containing a structure for introducing at least one jet ... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4168915 | Rotary drum A rotary drum for treating, especially upgrading, waste material, which includes a cylindrical mantle with an inlet and an outlet respectively provided at opposite ends of the drum and which is provided with annular guides for supporting the drum on stati... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4130364 | Method and portable apparatus for treating asphalt paving material A method and apparatus for treating paving material wherein the asphalt material is tumbled within an inclined drum so that it initially passes through the center portion of a stream of hot gases and is conveyed rearwardly and then is subsequently dropped... | 12/19/1978 |
