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Eastman-kodak Company

Eastman Chemical Company

Glen R Keith

Albert E Spaller, Jr

Andrew E McLeod

Steven James Hrivnak

Bobby D Duncan

Junior H Landes Ii

Shen S Chen

Robert G Casper

Philip L Rappl

C Kit Begley

A snorkel adapter apparatus is disclosed. The snorkel adapter apparatus includes a snorkel tube, a float, a mouthpiece, and a single pivot point. These pieces combined together create a snorkel breathing apparatus that allows the user to submerge the snorkel in water and prevent water from entering the snorkel tube and mouthpiece. When the snorkel is submerged in water, the float rotates around a coupler attached to the pivot attachment point and closes the open end of the snorkel tube. The buoyancy of the float in the water causes it to rotate and seal the snorkel tube closed.

Dry snorkel

A hand-held tool, for grasping items located at a distance from the operator, including a tool body, including a handle extending therefrom, for holding by the operator, and a moveable trigger operably arranged with the handle, at least one movable, pickup finger, for aid in grasping an item in response to squeezing the trigger, a first, elongated, rigid member, attached between the tool body and the at least one moveable finger, for holding the tool body and the at least one moveable finger, in a spaced-apart arrangement, a second, flexible member attached between the trigger and the at least one moveable finger, for moving the finger in response to movement of the trigger, a lockable element, a loosely-arranged binding plate, moveable by the thumb of the hand holding the handle, arranged for movement against the lockable element for permitting infinite locking positions of the at least one movable finger against the item grasped by the finger, and, a socket formed in the tool body for receiving the first, rigid, elongated member, the first, elongated, rigid member being adapted to be pulled out of the socket and be turned in any arrangement about the elongated, rigid member's central axis, for operating the attached at least one moveable finger, in any plane with the plane of the handle.

Pickup tool with variable position limiting and variable axis of operation

This apparatus relates to a safety mechanism for a rail system having tracks adapted to be moved in an out of alignment for the transfer of an object from one track to the other. More specifically, the apparatus relates to a mechanism which prevents the accidental movement of an object off the end of one track unless the tracks are in substantial alignment.

Safety mechanism for track system

Apparatus and method are disclosed for spinning filaments from a material such as cellulose acetate dope. The filaments are spun from a spinnerette at the top of a vertically elongated spinning cabinet. Gas is first directed parallel to the filaments as they are spun. A short distance down the cabinet, gas is directed radially inwardly toward the filaments. The two flows of gas merge and flow parallel to the filaments to the bottom of the cabinet, where the gas is withdrawn radially outwardly from the filaments.

Apparatus and method for spinning filaments

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Gray, TN, United States of America

Glen R Keith