A mill roll of cellophane being taken away from a casting machine at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. A single mill roll may contain as much as eight miles of cellophane. The Tecumseh plant, which made its first commercial...
Cellophane being wound in rolls after being coated at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Through modification of coatings, a wide variety of properties, such as heat sealability and varying degrees of moistureproofness, may be...
Finished rolls of cellophane being removed from slitting machine at the DuPont Company's new Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Cellophane is manufactured in wide mill rolls which are then slit to the sizes desired by customers. The conveyor in the...
Wrapping Victory Garden produce in cellophane and freezing it at locker plants will provide fresh, flavorsome food to approximately a million American families this year. There are 4,600 locker plants, mainly in rural and suburban areas. Here...
This young lady is holding 537 eggs-in cellophane shells. Dehydration removed the water. Compression by a new process removed most of the air, so that the nourishment value has been squeezed into a compact package of fourteen one pound blocks, each...
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....
Each morning brings fresh coffee from a freshly opened package when the coffee is compressed into these cellophane wrapped squares. One square makes two cups (or more if you like it strong) and the cellophane is removed with handy tear tape. This...
Excerpt from the July 9, 1952 issue of the Cellophane Observer newsletter from DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee cellophane plant. Explores the history of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Item 10 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Rolls of cellophane cellulose film, before being wrapped in heavy paper and boxed for shipment from DuPont Company plants, are first wrapped in two layers of moistureproof cellophane to protect the film from moisture absorption or loss.
Cellophane enters one end of long casting machine as a liquid and is wound up at the other end as a dry, shiny film. On its way through the machine, a series of baths purify, wash and soften it after which it is dried. At the wind up end, a full...
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...
Cellophane being prepared for shipment at the DuPont Company's new Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. They finished rolls, slit to the width required by the customer, are automatically pushed off the conveyor in the background and their weight is...
Mill rolls of cellophane, containing up to five miles of film, are placed in storage racks by electric hoist at DuPont's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, before being slit into smaller rolls to meet customers' specifications.
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.
