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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1970
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1969.1554.066
- MANUFACTURER
- General Electric Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 66
- Total Parts
- 66
- AKA
- case
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- synthetic
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 17.6 cm
- Width
- 10.5 cm
- Height
- 3.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Image carriers
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- General Electric
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Wisconsin
- City
- Milwaukee
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- THIS TYPE OF MARKING KIT USED C. 1970S.
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
To contain, protect and identify contents when not in use. - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF COMMON MARKING KIT USED TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL X-RAYS BY IMPOSING A UNIQUE NUMERICAL OR ALPHA-NUMERICAL CODE ONTO THE FILM.LEAD CHARACTERS ARRANGED ON A CLIP WERE PLACED ON THE FILM AT THE TIME OF EXPOSURE, PRODUCING A PERMANENT I.D. OF THE FILM. C. 1945 PHOTOGRAPHIC MARKING DEVICES (KODAK) WERE ALSO AVAILABLE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "film/ marker/ GENERAL [GE logo] ELECTRIC" printed in white in box top. Following text printed on inside top of lid: "INSTRUCTIONS/ PROVIDED TO FACILITATE THE IDENTIFICATION OF RADIOGRAPHS, THIS FILM MARKER WHEN/ PROPERLY USED WILL PRODUCE A LEGEND OF MAXIMUM CLARITY AND PREVENTS THE "BURNING OUT"/ OF THE CHARACTERS WHEN COMPARATIVELY HEAVY EXPOSURES ARE USED./ THE SET CONSISITS OF THREE PARTS, A CLIP, A FILTER AND AN ASSORTMENT OF LEAD CHAR-/ ACTERS. ANY ARRANGEMENT OF CHARACTERS MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE USER MAY BE/ EMPLOYED BUT IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE TOP LINE BE USED FOR CASE OR SERIAL NUMBER AND IDEN-/ TIFICATION OF RIGHT OR LEFT SIDE, AND THE LOWER LINE FOR THE DATE./ THE FILTER SHOULD BE USED FOR HEAVY EXPOSURES, WHILE BEST RESULTS WILL BE OBTAINED IN/ LIGHT EXPOSURES BY USE OF THE CLIP ALONE. FOR AVERAGE RADIOGRAPHS THE MARKER MAY BE/ PLACED DIRECTLY IN THE PATH OF THE PRIMARY RADIATION. FOR HEAVIER EXPOSURES SUCH AS A / LATERAL LUMBAR SPINE, BETTER RESULTS WILL BE OBTAINED IF THE MARKER IS PLACED UNDER THE/ PATIENT. BECAUSE THERE IS NO ESTABLISHED METHOD FOR PLACING A MARKER ON A FILM, A FEW/ TRIALS MAY BE NECESSARY TO SHOW HOW IT MAY BE USED TO BEST ADVANTAGE, AND WHEN OR/ WHEN NOT TO USE THE FILTER./ WHEN USING THE FILTER INSERT THE CLIP SO THAT THE SHORT GUIDE CHANNEL OF THE FILTER IS/ AT THE TOP. THIS WILL PERMIT THE CASE NUMBER TO BE CHANGED WITHOUT REMOVING THE CLIP./ GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., X-RAY DEPT., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. MADE IN U.S.A. "./ " MADE IN U.S.A -3- U.S. PAT. 2,570,341 " cast in raised print on box top.
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BLUE SYNTHETIC BOX.
- Decoration
- N/A
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