The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
DuPont explosive rivets are used by a maker of custom-built delivery trucks to attach aluminum exterior panels to structural members of vehicle in a blind fastening operation. One man, unaided, sets the rivers, applying heat with a DuPont riveting...
New DuPont explosive rivet at left has explosive charge chamber of uniform diameter extending throughout the shank in contrast to tapered chamber, shown in former rivet at right. The new type eliminates the need for precise tolerance and gears the...
DuPont explosive rivet, improved to fit need of assembly line methods of mass production, is set with a DuPont riveting iron. Electrically heated iron fires tiny explosive charge in rivet, expanding it to make tight fastening and eliminating need...
DuPont explosive rivet, improved to fit need of assembly line methods of mass production, is set with a DuPont riveting iron. Electrically heated iron fires tiny explosive charge in rivet, expanding it to make tight fastening and eliminating need...
A single operator sets DuPont explosives rivets, attaching slats to interior of delivery truck body in blind fastening operations. He is using a DuPont riveting iron to apply heat to the rivet, firing the tiny explosive charge within and expanding...
A single operator sets DuPont explosives rivets, attaching slats to interior of delivery truck body in blind fastening operations. He is using a DuPont riveting iron to apply heat to the rivet, firing the tiny explosive charge within and expanding...
One man, unaided, sets DuPont explosive rivets in blind operations involved in attaching interior wooden panel of a delivery truck body. Heat applied with DuPont riveting iron explodes the tiny charge of special explosives in the rivet, expanding...
A plywood lining is attached to the interior of a truck quickly and simply with DuPont explosive rivets. The smooth finish on the rivet head greatly reduces the change of damage to cargo.
Old style explosive rivet expanded only at bottom of shank. Left, the unexpanded blank rivet in place; right, the rivet set after detonation of the expansion charge.
New DuPont explosive rivet, improved for peacetime use in mass production. Speeds up fabrication of bus body parts. Single operator sets rivets with electrically heated DuPont riveting iron which discharges explosive in rivet expanding it to make...
Explosive workers' coveralls for added safety are made with cloth covered or rubber buttons to prevent the hazards of metal to metal contact which might discharge a spark.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Big Boom in Trapshooting; Prosperity Insurance; Popularizing a Sport Through Advertising; Trapshooting Club Secretary Blasts Cellar With Red Cross; Wasted Ammunition; National Advertising of Fabrikoid; Catskill Aqueduct an...
Inland Steel Company Indiana Harbor Works, East Chicago, Illinois. Open hearth explosive charge or torpedo used to open tap hole. The runner is in position to receive the molten metal
The energy of an explosive is commonly measured by shooting a definite amount in a ballistic mortar, a heavy swinging cannon, expelling a close fitting projectile into a sand pile, and observing how much swing is imparted to at the mortar by the...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Explosives industry;
Table of Contents: Spinning dreams into yarn; Birth of a fiber; Cinderella's slipper is plastic now; Taming static; Timber is for a gold mine; Alcohol and paper do mix; Lost in the laboratory; The pop that pays; Tri: the double-duty solvent; New...
Table of Contents: Shoes, secrets and shinbones; New safeguard for auto racers; Mopping up the Mississippi before the flood; The explosive that pours; The cap that won't come off; Coloful seats to cheer from ; A new edge in performance; Where...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Dyeing;
Table of Contents: Some fast-selling Fabrikoid articles; Dumorite, the latest DuPont explosive; How the federal farm loan system can help the farmer improve his land; Raising a railroad bridge with dynamite; Broadening the market for Pyralin...
