Bicycle Lock (open access)

Bicycle Lock

Patent for a bicycle lock. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Hayford, Samuel & Hayford, Kirby
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bracing Garment (open access)

Bracing Garment

Patent for a bracing garment. This invention resembles a corset functioning as a body brace. Illustrations included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Crumbly, Lula
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broaching-Press (open access)

Broaching-Press

Patent for a device used with metal-working machines that provides more efficient finishing.
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Baker, Jason A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a hand-lever baling press.
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Williamson, Charles Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Garment (open access)

Child's Garment

Patent for a child's garment. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Hanks, Edith & Anderson, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Morriss, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
combination lock (open access)

combination lock

Patent for a combination lock. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Wilcox, Ferdinand S. & Tucker, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop. (open access)

Blind Stop.

Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "[i]n blind-stops, the rod, consisting of two parts connected by a thin piece of metal, in combination with a blind provided with a median open-slotted tapering screw and thumb-nut" (lines 49-53).
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Warren, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Dropper (open access)

Corn or Cotton Dropper

Patent for corn or cotton dropper in which improvements are made on general efficiency, "simplicity, expensiveness, [and] durability" (lines 12-13).
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Brown, William Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Engine and Superheater Apparatus. (open access)

Combined Engine and Superheater Apparatus.

Patent for a "combined steam superheater apparatus and engine driven thereby, which in turn is utilized to automatically shift the steam feeding and cut off devices, and such invention primarily has for its object to provide a combined mechanism of this character which will effectively operate for its intended purposes" (lines 7-14). It also requires a minimal amount of effort to operate, sifts solids out of the water, and retains heat.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Construction. (open access)

Car Construction.

Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "a simple, safe, and practical coupling for cars, arranged to couple at one time as many cars as may be desired, and to operate automatically so as to avoid all necessity of going between the cars, and adapted to use the ordinary link and to couple with cars having a higher or lower draw bar than itself." (Lines 7-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Elliott, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breast-Strap for Harness. (open access)

Breast-Strap for Harness.

Patent for "a breast-strap so constructed as to obviate pressure on the windpipe of the horse and to transfer such pressure to the shoulders; to obviate chafing or rubbing of the breast-strap upon the shoulders, and to permit them to move freely in advance of each other as a result of the movements of the horse." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Russell, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 17, Number 96, Pages 9057-9151, December 25, 1992 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 17, Number 96, Pages 9057-9151, December 25, 1992

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1992
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 96, (Volume 2), Pages 7504-7629, December 25, 1990 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 96, (Volume 2), Pages 7504-7629, December 25, 1990

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1990
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 96, (Volume 1), Pages 7463-7503, December 25, 1990 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 96, (Volume 1), Pages 7463-7503, December 25, 1990

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1990
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 6, Number 96, Pages 4787-4836, December 25, 1981 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 6, Number 96, Pages 4787-4836, December 25, 1981

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1981
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 12, Number 96, Pages 4865-4930, December 25, 1987 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 12, Number 96, Pages 4865-4930, December 25, 1987

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1987
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 9, Number 96, Pages 6449-6492, December 25, 1984 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 9, Number 96, Pages 6449-6492, December 25, 1984

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1984
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 96, Pages 4675-4728, December 25, 1979 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 96, Pages 4675-4728, December 25, 1979

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 25, 1979
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Outs, General and D0 Considerations (open access)

Pump Outs, General and D0 Considerations

Seal Pump Outs (PO) are provided by specifically designing and providing redundant, or double, seals to create an annular volume that can be '(vacuum) pumped out' to test the integrity of both seals. The value of the technique is most readily apparent in the construction of large piping systems or vessels whose closure is on a different schedule than the nozzle closures, or whose nozzles are serially closed. In the case of D0, for instance, the high voltage boxes were put in place and leak checked before the vessel was closed and independent of the other nozzles. PO use is by no means limited to cryogenics and the supporting vacuum systems, but the discussion here will be limited to cryogenic applications. POs come in two generic service types; installation, and installation and monitor. The above high voltage box is an example of a static installation service application. Once the item is installed the PO can be, and almost universally is, capped, and revisited only on disassembly and reassembly. POs are constantly monitored after installation only when their seals, through cooldown gradient induced motion, vibration, cyclic load bolt seating, or other dynamic phenomena may degrade in performance over time. PO seals …
Date: December 25, 1990
Creator: Mulholland, G.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of community structure in networks of correlated data (open access)

Analysis of community structure in networks of correlated data

We present a reformulation of modularity that allows the analysis of the community structure in networks of correlated data. The new modularity preserves the probabilistic semantics of the original definition even when the network is directed, weighted, signed, and has self-loops. This is the most general condition one can find in the study of any network, in particular those defined from correlated data. We apply our results to a real network of correlated data between stores in the city of Lyon (France).
Date: December 25, 2008
Creator: Gomez, S.; Jensen, P. & Arenas, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
RbGd{sub 2}Br{sub 7}:Ce scintillators for gamma ray and thermal neutron detection (open access)

RbGd{sub 2}Br{sub 7}:Ce scintillators for gamma ray and thermal neutron detection

In this paper, we report on gamma ray and thermal neutron detection with RbGd2Br7:Ce scintillators. RbGd2Br7:Ce (RGB) is a new scintillator material, which shows high light output (56,000 photons/MeV) and has a fast principal decay constant (45 ns) when doped with 10 percent Ce. These properties make RGB an attractive scintillator for g-ray detection. Also, due to the presence of Gd as a constituent, RGB has a high cross section for thermal neutron absorption and can achieve close to 100 percent stopping efficiency with 0.5 mm thick RGB crystals. Crystals of RGB with three different Ce concentrations (0.1, 5, and 10 percent) have been grown and their basic scintillation properties such as light output, decay time, and emission spectrum have been measured. In addition, high efficiency thermal neutron detection has been confirmed in our studies.
Date: December 25, 2001
Creator: Shah, Kanai S.; Cirignano, Leonard; Grazioso, Ronald; Klugerman, Misha; Bennett, Paul R.; Gupta, Tapan K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental testing SNAP 10A fuel elements (open access)

Environmental testing SNAP 10A fuel elements

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Date: December 25, 1965
Creator: Isaacs, J.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library