This is the point where the film base receives its coating of light sensitive emulsion. The transparent base dips into a tray which is filled with emulsion and comes away with just the right thickness of emulsion coated on it. The point at which...
Table of Contents: Industry looks for leaders; What's new in Fabrikoid; Building the Kittitas high line canal; Those who ride my read; Banding wild ducks at Carney's Point; Transparent velvet, a style stable; Silver mining in Mexico; Toys for the...
Table of Contents: Looking back at 1931; A marvel of economical operation; George Washington prints; A few transparent Cellophane jokes in cartoons and stories; Now you can spray the fenders; Scenic highways in the Colorado Rockies; The Venturafin...
Table of Contents: Chemistry and you; Balloons for the weatherman; What women should know about fast colors; Chemistry and the sponge industry; The story of bookmaking; Modern trends in white house paints; What's new; Pine stumps to fine chemicals;...
Glass container designers of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's packaging research division at Toledo, OH work with less eyestrain in this new all glass windowless structure where soft, diffused daylight is transmitted through translucent but not...
Nation's First-Intended to show the rigid interior bracing and such features as the working mechanism of the no draft ventilation system employed in the "unisteel" turret top body by Fisher, the first transparent motor car ever constructed in the...
Making final check on the C-54 functional model in plexiglas are left to right: Don Evans, foreman LaMar Bluth, who designed the transparent C-54, Jim Bishop and Robin Swihart. The switches operate lights at all stations throughout the model.
Transparent sheet of light sensitive film is inspected at DuPont's new plant for Dycril printing plates at Parlin, New Jersey. The complex technology utilized in the country's first full scale plant for making photopolymer printing plates involves...
Wind up end of casting machine. Operator carefully inspects transparent film base, just before it is wound on large spool and as it comes form the drying portion of the machine, She will make a record of any flaws in film in the log book in front...
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...
Rolls of wood pulp are placed in position as first step in making cellophane at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which is now in commercial production. Wood pulp is treated with chemicals in a complex and carefully controlled...
A control panel in the viscose manufacturing operation at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Precise control at every stage of the process is essential to uniformity and high quality of the finished product. In the manufacture...
One of the instrument panels at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which permits precise control of every step of the manufacture process of viscose, a syrupy liquid which is then converted in the casting process into clear,...
This proposed Victory package of dehydrated and compressed carrots takes up only about as much space as the loose dehydrated carrots, shown in the transparent display box. Each package contains six squares, each wrapped in cellophane, as shown at...
A proposed Lend-Lease package of compressed dehydrated potatoes is show at left with each cube individually wrapped in cellophane and the entire dozen cubes over wrapped in cellophane. This would then be placed in an outer container shown at right....
This large rotating plating barrel is made from transparent DuPont Lucite acrylic resin. Lucite is easily formed and fabricates and is unaffected by most plating solutions.
A welcome innovation in the printing industry is this etching machine made of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin. The transparent plastic, which replaces heavy stoneware previously used, allows the operator to observe the entire etching operation.
A boon to the summertime hostess is this transparent table cover of polythene, a new plastic which protects the cloth beneath it but does not hide the gay pattern. Laundry bills are thus reduced, for spots and stains don't penetrate the cover and...
Table, pull type and radial circular saws similar to those used for cutting wood or metal are suitable for cutting Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. Blades with from 5 to 8 teeth per inch and no set give good results when running at a rate of about...
Band saws are often used for cutting curves of large radius in Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. Because of the length of band saw blades, they dissipate heat more rapidly than do circular saws. Accordingly, they operate at lower temperatures and...
