These plastic bowls for fruits, flowers and salads are molded from DuPont's new plastic material, patterned Lucite acrylic resin sheets. Surface patterns of varied designs are formed into the light, shatter resistant sheets. Equipment for...
These plastic bowls for fruits, flowers and salads are molded from DuPont's new plastic material, patterned Lucite acrylic resin sheets. Surface patterns of varied designs are formed into the light, shatter resistant sheets. Equipment for...
In the final step before x-ray film is inspected and cut into sheets at DuPont's new multi-million dollar plant in Brevard, North Carolina an operator splices the trailing edges of one roll to the leading edge of another roll. Sheets meeting...
Drawing off 500 sheets of sparkling new cellophane from a sheeting drum in a DuPont plant. From this smooth polished table the cellophane will be fed into a cutting machine, which will cut it into square sheets.
Viton' fluoroelastomer, DuPont's new fluorine-based elastomer is milled into sheets, the final step in its manufacture at the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant. At this stage, it is a translucent, light colored gum which rubber companies compound...
Sheets of patterned Lucite acrylic resins of shatter resistant street lamp globes, windows for tickets offices and washroom windows and other uses will be manufactured as soon as equipments is made available by DuPont in standard designs, six of...
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
Table of Contents: Man-made dyes: the first 100 years; Pepperell peps up striped sheets; Brighter skins for modern buildings; Travel light, and love it; The news behind new car wax; Rocket engines sit for their portraits; bucket and brush go...
Table of Contents: Wild life restoration; Chromite in the Philippine Islands; Caring for concrete; Leg bands of Pyralin; Hail to the scale; Shoes -- a new chapter in an old story; Fort Peck Dam; Rayon adds new charm to velvets; The Cavalcade of...
In the pouring of open hearth furnaces, molten steel flows from a huge ladle in ingot molds. Later, the ingots are formed into sheets and bars for manufacture into thousands of industrial products. (Photographed at the Rouge Plant of Ford Motor...
Formed halves of the bomber nose are cemented together with acrylic resin, the same resin of which the Plexiglas sheets are originally made, Here a workmen is trimming the edges of a bombardiers door end the gun-mount hole so that the necessary...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
Unloading a shredding machine of ground up sheets of treated cotton linters and wood pulp, or alkali cellulose as it is called at this stage in the manufacture of viscose rayon and cellophane at plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Progress continues after product is on the market. Moisture proof cellophane was developed three years after DuPont had plain film. Today there are more than 50 types and 5,000 uses for sheets like that inspected in Buffalo research laboratory by...
