DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
At DuPont Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, the company also maintains a complete textile laboratory, part of which is shown here. The purpose of the laboratory is to enable the plant to keep a check on how Dacron...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
Lighter, stronger, more flexible fire hose made with an outer jacket of Dacron polyester fiber woven on an extruded neoprene tube gets into action faster, saving time when seconds may mean lives. Light weight (46 pounds for 100% Dacron, including...
Typed caption: "'Dacron' polyester fiber is known for its strength but this characteristic undergoes regular tests here in the physical testing laboratory at Kinston, N.C., where 'Dacron' is made. This 'Dacron' tow (rope-like in appearance) is...
This roving frame in the staple processing laboratory at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, is spinning yarn from this fiber. The roving frame is the third step in spinning staple fiber into yarn and this...
These are wound cakes of DuPont's Dacron polyester fiber just off the spinning machines. Workman is shown inspecting them at the pilot plant at Seaford, Delaware. Dacron is now produced at Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee.
In the processing of continuous filament Dacron polyester fiber, the yarn must be drawn to give it added strength and elasticity. This rack of yarn has just been drawn on the machines in the background and is on its way to the inspections station...
Dacron polyester fiber rolls off the shipping line at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee plants. Here a special telescope type container lid is slipped over the yarn to protect it in transport to the customers' mills....
From DuPont's new $40,000,000 plant for making Dacron polyester fiber, these packages of the fiber start their journey to textile manufacturers. The textile trade will convert, weave and knit this Dacron into apparel fabrics and also fabrics for...
Moving down across the picture from the upper right corner, Dacron polyester fiber in rope like tow form rushes into the drawing machine (not shown) where al fib3ers will be stretched to give them proper strength. This is one of many steps through...
This truly dual purpose shirt for men combines the look and feel of cotton with the fast drying, no-ironing long-wearing advantages of Dacron polyester fiber. Made and sold by Brooks Brothers, the white, button-down Oxford shirt is made in...
This truly dual purpose shirt for men combines the look and feel of cotton with the fast drying, no-ironing long-wearing advantages of Dacron polyester fiber. Made and sold by Brooks Brothers, the white, button-down Oxford shirt is made in...
These handsome, roomy, bumper-end sofas feature upholstery fabric of Dacron polyester fiber. The attractive frieze weave, with lofty loop pile entirely of the DuPont fiber, is rich and full bodied and remarkable soft to the touch. The fabric has...
