The above photographs are fiber diagrams comparing the fiber distribution and length of fibers in Two Top produced by Pacific Mills Worsted Division with other types of top. No. 1 represents a conventional pick carded and combed rayon top. The...
Operator checks batt in felting operation developed by DuPont fibers experts to make new high performance industrial felts of manmade fibers. New process was perfected in DuPont's $5,000,000 textile Research Laboratory at Chestnut Run near...
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...
Typed caption: "Aerial view of the fibers and cellophane plants of E.I du Pont de Nemours & Company, near Richmond, Virginia. The fibers buildings are in the foreground, and the cellophane plant is in the background to the right."
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
Bales of raw cotton linters composed of short, raw cotton fibers left on the boll after the larger fibers have been removed. These constitute the principal raw materials used in the manufacture of finishes by DuPont.
For the most part, textile fibers-natural and man made- have wide varying physical and chemical properties. The differences are apparent in the types of dye which adhere to the fibers. By mixing or blending fibers with different dyeing...
Mass pigmentation of textile fibers at DuPont's New Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here single end spinning machine is used for making viscose rayon pigmented with a new fade resistant 'Monastral' red. In this technique, color is put into the...
Rope or tow of man made textile fibers cut into desired and uniform lenths, varying as required for ultimate use in producing fabrics and garments. The short lengths shown here are roughly comparable to the average length of cotton.
The smooth, rod-like translucency of continuous filament yarn manufactured from manmade textile fibers is demonstrated by the filaments above. These filaments are magnified 160 times.
Staple from man-made textile fibers rolling from a storage hopper into a baling press for shipment to mills which process it into spun yarns on the cotton, woolen, worsted, or other established spinning systems.
Shrinking by chemical action or heat is final step in production of non-woven felt of synthetic fibers in process developed through DuPont research. Wide batt enters machine at right, emerges as narrower strip of felt at left. Density, hardness and...
Synthetic textile fibers are a major field of current interest in DuPont research. Process engineer pictured here is checking photographs of magnified fiber cross-sections, comparing an experimental fiber, center, with give commercial fibers made...
Pioneering Research Laboratory of the DuPont Companys Textile Fibers Department, where initial investigations are conducted on man-made textile fibers. The laboratory is a part of the $30,000,000 expansion of DuPont's Experimental Station which was...
Rayon tow is here being converted into top on a machine invented by N.S. Campbell, of Greenwich, Connecticut. The operator has inserted several ends of DuPont Fiber-D rayon tow into the far end of the machine. They then pass between a pair of...
Photograph of a group of women and a young girl wearing cocktail and evening dresses made of Du Pont fibers at a fashion show staged at Rockefeller Center.
