Originally the major use for cellulose sponges was in car washing. In recent years, they have become increasingly popular for dish washing, cleaning walls and windows. Cellulose sponges are also available in mop form.
Tall glasses, coffee pots and other hard to clean utensils are washed in a jiffy with the new cellulose sponge dish mop. The highly porous sponge absorbs a good supply of rich suds and is very pliable. It is easy to keep clean and may sterilizing...
A cellulose sponge can absorb up to twenty times its weight in water and is compressible to 10% of its original size. The 28 ounce sponge block this operator is holding can absorb 17 1/2 quarts of water in about 90 seconds. DuPont makes cellulose...
Machine which wraps and seals the cellulose or man made sponge in Cellophane cellulose film proper to its being packaged in boxes at the Buffalo plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
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...
Changing a specially designed and equipped mixer with xanthate, the base of which is cotton linters and wood pulp, in the manufacture of the cellulose or man made sponge at Buffalo plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Cellulose sponges are tailored to meet the customer's needs and desires at DuPont's plant on the Duck River near Columbia, Tennessee. More than 50 sizes are made. A typical block yields hundreds of sponges of the popular home sizes.
Specially made fine grain sponges are used by amateur and professional photographers for removing excess moisture from photographic film that has just been developed and washed. DuPont makes these cellulose sponges at Columbia, Tennessee.
Final inspection of the cellulose or man made sponge manufactured at the Buffalo plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company showing another diversification of the chemical industry. This sponge has found uses in industry and in the home where the...
Cellulose acetate is the basic raw material for one type of safety base for photographic film made at DuPont's Parlin, New Jersey plant. The powder like material is made at another company at Waynesboro, Virginia ad shipped to the Parlin Photo...
Rolls of cellophane cellulose film are run off onto large drums, which a re built circular like the rolls. The cellophane is then cut to specific lengths, on order, at the plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
A scene at the Arlington, New Jersey plant where Pyralin cellulose nitrate plastic sheeting is fabricated. The large press cuts the cellulose product to the specifications of the customer.
After remaining in a bath of caustic soda for almost half an hour, sheets of cellulose are removed from the steeping bath, preparatory to being shredded into flakes at the rayon plant E.I du Pont Nemours & Company
Equipment for blending cellulose acetate, an important step in the manufacture of Acele acetate rayon at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company
Equipment for washing cellulose acetate, one of the processes in the manufacture of acetate at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
