Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
Motion picture film being slit into 35mm width under safe light conditions. The film has been coated with emulsion and died, but it still in the wide form in which it is processed through manufacturing operations at DuPont's Photo Products plant at...
Inspections station of type used to inspect Photolith and X-ray film after film has been slit and chopped. Girl inspects film for flaws ad proper size, viewing it in reflected light form safe light.
Every roll of cellophane cellulose film, which is slit to customers' requirements, is weighed and inspected. The illustration shows how the operation is conducted in the plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Plain, transparent cellophane entering a coating machine. This process makes the film moisture-proof. Rolls are then cut or slit to the order of customers in other plant areas. Most production is shipped in roll form. This image was used in the...
Cellophane being prepared for shipment at the DuPont Company's new Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. They finished rolls, slit to the width required by the customer, are automatically pushed off the conveyor in the background and their weight is...
Finished rolls of cellophane being removed from slitting machine at the DuPont Company's new Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Cellophane is manufactured in wide mill rolls which are then slit to the sizes desired by customers. The conveyor in the...
Mill rolls of cellophane, containing up to five miles of film, are placed in storage racks by electric hoist at DuPont's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, before being slit into smaller rolls to meet customers' specifications.
Cellophane casting machine at Buffalo, New York plant transforms a viscous liquid into a thin film. At start of machine, above liquid is forced through a narrow slit and coagulated by an acid bath.
Mylar polyester film emerges at the end of the manufacturing operation in a continuous sheet and is wound up in large mill rolls, which are later slit on machines like this to customer's specifications in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film...
DuPont's Mylar polyester film emerges in a continuous sheet at the end of the manufacturing process at the Circleville, Ohio plant. It is then wound on large mill rolls, which are later slit in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film is carried...
A step in the manufacture of Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here Butacite is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his requirements for windshields and...
Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged exposure to heat, light and...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
Mirror glass and black lacquered wood are two mediums now being widely used by modern French furniture designers. Pieces offered by Colette Gueden, Paris, show great simplicity in design, the mirror glass being used as a decorative element in the...
Lucie Renaudot of Paris makes interesting use of glass and metal in boudoir furniture for the modern home. Note the mirror glass as a table top and sides for the dressing table. Glass tubing is also used as supports for these two pieces, with...
Typed caption: Halston makes his debut in loungewear for Dorian with this lovely outgoing or stay at home caftan in flowing jersey of luxurious 'Qiana' nylon. It comes with a wide sash that can be wrapped as a turban as shown--or clinched at the...
Typed caption: An Oriental inspiration--the elegant kimono dress by Paganne. Not for the boudoir, but for special evenings away or at home. The fabric is a soft, fluid jersey of 'Qiana' nylon, with delicate tracings of black branches on soft green,...
