Folding Umbrella. (open access)

Folding Umbrella.

Patent for an improved folding umbrella consisting of folding ribs and braces. Additionally, the staff of the umbrella is separable so that the staff can be shortened when the umbrella is closed.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Allen, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Auditor's Office: Report 98-043 (open access)

Texas State Auditor's Office: Report 98-043

Letter to Dr. E. James Hindman, President of Angelo State University from Lawrence F. Alwin, Texas State Auditor regarding managemetn of systems for financial aid, contracting, human resources, and fixed assets. Angelo State Management's Response also included.
Date: June 10, 1998
Creator: Alwin, Lawrence F.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
European Union Enlargement (open access)

European Union Enlargement

On May 1, 2004, 10 states joined the European Union (EU), enlarging the Union to 25 members. The EU views the enlargement process as an historic opportunity to promote stability in Europe and further the integration of the continent by peaceful means. In addition to the 10 new members (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia), three other states — Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia — hope to accede to the EU by 2007. Turkey is also a candidate and is expected to begin accession negotiations in 2005. Macedonia has also applied for EU membership.
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76: Implications for the Future (open access)

Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76: Implications for the Future

This report examines the issues surrounding the Walter Reed public-private competition conducted under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A- 76 and its potential impact on future Department of Defense (DOD) competitions.
Date: June 10, 2008
Creator: Bailey Grasso, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fast Neutron Sensitivity of the CP Meter (open access)

Fast Neutron Sensitivity of the CP Meter

Abstract: "The sensitivity to fast neutrons of a CP Meter ionization chamber of the type used for health physics beta and gamma survey measurements has been investigated."
Date: June 10, 1949
Creator: Baker, E. E.; Gydesen, F. R. & Whipple, G. H., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine for Compressing and Rolling Bats (open access)

Machine for Compressing and Rolling Bats

Patent for a machine used to compress bats from cotton before the bailing or packing process. Illustrations included.
Date: June 10, 1910
Creator: Ball, Samuel M.; McNiel, Benjamin N. & Pennington, Harry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design Considerations Of Ultrahigh Vacuum Systems For Metallurgical Applications (open access)

Design Considerations Of Ultrahigh Vacuum Systems For Metallurgical Applications

Under the stimulus of electronic materials development - particularly thin-film studies - and the need for space environmental simulation chambers, a very rapid increase in the availability of industrial-sized vacuum components and systems operable in the ultrahigh vacuum range has taken place in the last three years. It is the purpose of this paper to explore the design considerations of ultrahigh vacuum systems for metallurgical applications.
Date: June 10, 1964
Creator: Batzer, Thomas H. & Bunshah, R. F. (Rointan Framroze)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality and Transportation Enhancement Provisions in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (open access)

Air Quality and Transportation Enhancement Provisions in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991

This report describes how the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ) and enhancement programs function, examines the policy issues surrounding them, and summarizes relevant provisions in major legislation to reauthorize ISTEA in the 105th Congress.
Date: June 10, 1998
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Graphite Bodies : Progress Report No. 3 for the Period March 1, 1959 to May 31, 1959 (open access)

Investigation of Graphite Bodies : Progress Report No. 3 for the Period March 1, 1959 to May 31, 1959

This document is the third in a series of progress report that records investigations of graphite bodies. Along with the report, two appendices are given to describe the different graphite bodies: "Synthetic Binders for Carbon and Graphite" and "High Temperature Physical Properties of Molded Graphites".
Date: June 10, 1959
Creator: Bradstreet, Samuel W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Testing in Sports: Proposed Legislation (open access)

Drug Testing in Sports: Proposed Legislation

This report provides a summary of the four bills currently before Congress and a side-by-side comparison of their major provisions.
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: Brooks, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Branch Agency Appointments: History, Processes, and Recent Actions (open access)

Legislative Branch Agency Appointments: History, Processes, and Recent Actions

This report contains information on the legislative branch agency heads' appointment processes, length of tenures (if terms are set), reappointment or removal provisions (if any), salaries and benefits, and most recent appointments.
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Brudnick, Ida A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species (open access)

Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species

This report provides background on various approaches to ballast water management and reviews current ballast water management laws and programs.
Date: June 10, 2008
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species (open access)

Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species

This report provides background on various approaches to ballast water management and reviews current ballast water management laws and programs.
Date: June 10, 2008
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "is to provide a spring-washer of great stiffness and strength, which, when applied to a bolt beneath a nut, serves to prevent the latter from turning, and also acts to firmly hold the parts of a rail-joint after there has been some wear thereof, thus keeping the bolts from becoming loose and rattling from such wear" (lines 13-20).
Date: June 10, 1884
Creator: Campbell, Eli F.; Noble, Laroy C. & Howe, Milton G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dubbing-Machine. (open access)

Dubbing-Machine.

Patent for improvements to the dubbing-machines with illustrations. Specifically, this improvement is aimed at "dressing ship timber" (line 15) in an effort to make the process easier and more efficient.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Cobb, Dan L. & Moore, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Axle (open access)

Spring Axle

Patent for an axle to provide assistance to the wheel to adapt to the irregularities of the surface.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Coggin, Charley J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery. (open access)

Battery.

Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Crowley, Richard Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for Drill-Bit that is especially designed for purpose of drilling through rock, or other hard formations and is also adapted for use in drilling through softer formation, such as shell.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Culmore, March J. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnaissance of uranium-bearing deposits, Yampa River region, Colorado (open access)

Reconnaissance of uranium-bearing deposits, Yampa River region, Colorado

Discussing a reconnaissance of uranium-bearing deposits in the Yampa River Region, in Colorado
Date: June 10, 1952
Creator: Darnell, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Fast Track" Legislative Procedures Governing Congressional Consideration of a Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission Report (open access)

"Fast Track" Legislative Procedures Governing Congressional Consideration of a Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission Report

This report outlines the "fast track" parliamentary procedures that have governed congressional consideration of the recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) commission in prior rounds and that have been included in the Department of Defense's recent request for authority to conduct a 2015 BRAC round
Date: June 10, 2013
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Protractor. (open access)

Protractor.

Patent for a new and improved protractor. This design "is to make a protractor or plotter by which may be calculated the length of the base, perpendicular, and hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle where the latitude and departure or the altitude and depression are given" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists, "with the semicircular protractor provided with a rectangular opening the edges of which are graduated, and centrally-pivoted vernier, of the departure-scale arranged to move up or down within the said rectangular scale within the semicircular scale" (lines 6-12).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Dolman, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Solids Accumulation and Fission Heating in the HRT Chemical Plant Underflow Pot (Co-op Report, Fall Quarter, 1958) (open access)

Solids Accumulation and Fission Heating in the HRT Chemical Plant Underflow Pot (Co-op Report, Fall Quarter, 1958)

The purpose of this study was to develop equations for calculating fision product heating in the HRT-CP underflow pot from measured temperatures and to attempt to correlate the rat of solids accumulation in the underflow pot with fission heating and reactor power. Using fission heating data calculated from relating solids accumulation and heating have been tested. In one case an error of no greater than 26% was incurred in the calculation of the total weight of solids collected during chemical plant runs 17-4, 17-5, and 17-6. Further development work will be done on this correlation.
Date: June 10, 1959
Creator: Dunn, W. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Screw. (open access)

Screw.

Patent for a new and improved screw. This design consists in "[a] screw, the body and shank of which are of corresponding diameter throughout their length, the shank terminating in a rounded end, and the shank and body being provided with a longitudinal straight channel extending throughout their lengths, one of the terminal shoulders of the channel being removed" (lines 4-10).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Ericson, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance. (open access)

Sash Balance.

Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design consists "of the strap provided with a series of holes and designed to have one end secured to the upper sash of a window, the hanger secured to the top of the window-frame and provided with the roller, the clasp or fastener secured to the lower sash and consisting of the plate having the ears and provided with a roller journaled in the ears and having the pin or stud arranged to engage the hole of the strap" (lines 85-95).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Estill, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History