Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
Straining operation in the manufacture of paint at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company. This operation is the last 'cleansing' the paint receives before being put into cans.
The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
First panel board in company was established on a powder line pt permit sage remote control operation. Here an operator starts up a mill. To insure maximum safety, DuPont's Belin Works is made up of several dozen small and independent buildings,...
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Written on back of image: "In this operation the dyestuffs int he form of a printing paste is actually applied to the cloth by means of the engraved copper roller. All colors are applied at one operation but each color is applied by a separate...
General view of the docks at the Gary Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, largest US steel subsidiary at Gary, Indiana. Shows the hulett un-loaders in operation. The operator sits in a cab just above the grab bucket and controls the...
A flyer block of nylon, used in textile machinery, travels as fast as 15,000 revolutions per minute without lubrication. Attached to a spindle in the spinning operation, the flyer clock holds wires which provide necessary tension to the yarn. The...
Hundreds of individual ends of continuous filament yarn feed from the creel in the processing operation at E. I. du Pont Nemours & Company's plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber at Camden, South Carolina.
Polking' was the name for the hand operation shown here, used in the old days at Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company to round off the ends of the combs. Molding presses do this now.
Polking' was the name for the hand operation shown here, used in the old days at Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company to round off the ends of the combs. Molding presses do this now.
Polishing was another hand operation before molding machines were installed at the DuPont Leominster, Massachusetts plastic plant. Today, an operator makes 28 times as many combs a day as he did in 1930.
Certain types of coated fabrics require a soft or fleece back. Notable among these are those designed for table covers and upholstery fabrics. This photograph shows the operation where the nap or fleece back is completed at the Newburg, New York...
Operation of a calendar capable of turning out millions of yards of plastic coated fabric a year may be controlled form this central instrument board at the Newburgh, New York plant of the DuPont Company's Fabrics and Finishes Department. The...
Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
A loading and shading operation in the manufacture of paint, consisting of the mixing, shading and thinning of the finished product at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company.
