Axle shafts are carefully pressed into rotor parts, their alignment simultaneously checked, in New Industrial Motor Division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at East Pittsburgh PA.
Bobbins of twisted yarn are checked on creel preparatory to winding on beam for weaving. Each individual strand, called an end, must be wound with meticulous care to insure steady feed in high speed weaving operation. Machine at DuPont's...
Nylon yarn is checked for weight. Samples of uniform length are taken from bobbins that come from the spinning machines and weighed to check the denier of the yarn, This is one of the steps in the DuPont Company's plants at Seaford, Delaware;...
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...
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...
Thickness of DuPont's new Dycril printing plates is checked at company's first full scale plant for the new plates at Parlin, New Jersey. Thickness of completed flexible plates must fall within a range of plus or minus .0005 inches in order to meet...
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
In the modern and completely equipped chemical control laboratory of the DuPont Company's new plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, production runs are continuously checked to maintain quality standards.
Bleaching of fabrics at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Here, results of a launderometer accelerated washing test are being checked. Bottles are preheated in rack at right. Bleach and textile samples are added...
Corfam poromeric shoe upper material is checked foot by foot for uniformity of texture, color and thickness at the DuPont Company's Old Hickory, Tennessee plant. Corfam is the result of 200 man hours of research and testing at the chemical company.
At the DuPont Electrochemicals Department ceramic color plant, a high temperature furnace, used for calcining ceramic pigments, is frequently checked by an operator using a portable optical pyrometer at the burner openings in the furnace wall. All...
The equipment illustrated is typical of what the visitor will see in most research and application laboratories. Known as reflux units, they are used as testing instruments in ascertaining the resistance of a brown dye to various metals. Each flask...
In testing fabrics for the fastness of dyes in washing, special soaps and soda ash solutions are used. The fabrics are checked for 'bleeding' or running dyes. Fabrics are also laundered in accordance with commercial laundry standards and are given...
To guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist,...
After being thoroughly cleaned and checked periodically, spinnerets are reassembled and returned to the lines of spinning machines that produce viscose process rayon yarn in plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Cord tension is meticulously checked prior to application of adhesive which further increases tenacity in $96,000 hot stretching unit. Operation is one of many controls of tension in processing tire cord. Equipment is part of facilities for study...
