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PAR Loop Schedule Review (open access)

PAR Loop Schedule Review

The schedule for the installation of the PAR slurry loop experiment in the South Facility of the ORR has been reviewed and revised. The design, fabrication, and installation is approximately two weeks behind schedule at this time due to many factors; however, indications are that this time can be made up. Design is estimated to be 56 per cent complete, fabrication 27 per cent complete-and installation 11 per cent complete:
Date: March 31, 0958
Creator: Schaffer, Jr. & W.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Method of Feathering the Sails of Vanes of Windmills. (open access)

Improved Method of Feathering the Sails of Vanes of Windmills.

Patent for a new windmill design with different sails and connections, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1857
Creator: Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Fastener. (open access)

Window-Fastener.

Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
Date: August 31, 1858
Creator: Root, Irving
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine. (open access)

Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine.

Patent for "a new threshing-machine, which is arranged upon wheels, so that it can be drawn over the field" (lines 12-15) and make the process for which it was built: more efficient. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: December 31, 1867
Creator: Tucker, A. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Clevises (open access)

Improvement in Clevises

Patent for an adjustable clevis, consisting of a hinged loop and an eyebolt.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.

Patent for improvement in cotton-hoes for the purpose of saving time when spacing and thinning cotton plants by providing an angular handle with bent arms that can be attached to the back of the hoes. The hoe is made up with three separate cutters with spaces in between to allow young plants equally spaced in each row. The middle cutter can be removed when second thinning is needed to avoid injuring the plants. Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner.

Patent for improvements in cotton-picker and cleaner by using rotary breakers combined with fixed breakers to break the branches and outer coverings of the cotton in the bolls. The cotton then passes through an “inclined-way” where the rotary breakers are spirally-arranged on a concentric cylinder to carry the cotton out of the cleaner. (Lines 69-75) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter

Patent for improvements to cotton-plows and planters.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Plows

Patent an improved cotton-plow with curved flanges, with illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Plows.

Patent for improvement in cotton-plows by making the plow blades curved for the purpose of breaking up the land to prevent the plow from clogging. (Lines 27-30) The plow can break up the soil and laying off seed-furrows simply by reversing and removing the blades to a different position of the frame. (Lines 59-60) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk and Cane-Puller. (open access)

Improvement in Stalk and Cane-Puller.

Patent for improvement in stalk puller by using “two pointed teeth or prongs peculiarly constructed, and secured to a suitable handle to which an adjustable fulcrum is connected, in order to allow the implement to be manipulated by persons of different statures and strength.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Three-Horse Equalizers. (open access)

Improvement in Three-Horse Equalizers.

Patent for improvement in treble-trees by using “two stretcher-loops that are jointed on the double-tree at points on each side of the centre, so that the strain is not at one point, but somewhat distributed.” (Lines 42-44) “The loops can be adjusted so that should there be any material inequality in the strength of the three horses, one can equalized by arranging the loops accordingly nearer to or further away from the centre on either one or both sides.” (Lines 45-49) Illustration is included.
Date: August 31, 1869
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Head-Rest. (open access)

Improved Head-Rest.

Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in washing machines.
Date: January 31, 1871
Creator: Nave, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-traps (open access)

Insect-traps

Patent for an improvement in ant traps. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1872
Creator: Stell, Japhthah W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties

Patent for Improvement in the fastening of the metal bands used to tie cotton bales. Includes detailed description and three labled figures
Date: July 31, 1873
Creator: Cromer, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c. (open access)

Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c.

Patent for “a new and useful improvement in Combined, Cultivator, Scraper, and Dumping-Cart” (lines 4-7) including illustration.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Rabb, John Wesley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for the invention of a new and improved type of adjustable plow, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: White, Moses F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
Date: July 31, 1876
Creator: Michel, Ferdinand
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Neck-Yokes. (open access)

Improvement in Neck-Yokes.

Patent for "an improvement in the class of neck-yokes having a swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole; and it consists in providing the neck-yoke with a central enlargement or boss, and connecting the tube which slips on the end of the carriage-pole with the yoke by means of rings having perforated ears to receive the ends of a pivoted bar, to which the pole ring or tube is swiveled." (Lines 11-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1876
Creator: Hannig, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pessaries. (open access)

Improvement in Pessaries.

Patent for an improved uterine supporter with changes to the arrangement of the wings, with illustrations and instructions.
Date: October 31, 1876
Creator: Barnett, Jonathan P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms. (open access)

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.

Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Graves, Clinton E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History