[Memorandum of Meeting: South Texas Military Facilities Task Force, June 24, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: South Texas Military Facilities Task Force, June 24, 2005]

Memorandum of meeting with the Corpus Christi / Ingleside representatives of the South Texas Military Facilities Task Force.
Date: June 24, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Stalk Cutter (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter

Patent for a more efficient and simple cotton stalk chopper with the ability for the chopping drum to be moved up and down in the on and off positions.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Thomsen, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device (open access)

Cranking Device

Patent for a cranking device. Illustration included.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Christensen, Petter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plugger. (open access)

Dental Plugger.

Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Blum, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fish-Bucket. (open access)

Combination Fish-Bucket.

Patent for a combination fish bucket, which has two compartments for holding bait, tackle, and food and a holder for a fishing rod, which may be carried on the body or by a handle.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Fly, Nathaniel D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage - Shears (open access)

Gage - Shears

Patent for a new and useful improvements in shears. This design "consists of the details of construction and arrangement of the several parts"(line 16-19).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Steen, Emma L. Nevada
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Equilibrium-Retaining Device for Flying-Machines. (open access)

Equilibrium-Retaining Device for Flying-Machines.

Patent related to automatic means for maintaining equilibrium while operating heavier-than-air flying machines through the use of valves.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Watson Macmanus, Augustus Frederick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant rap designed to catch ants and burrowing insects that are destructive to vegetation. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Fly, Nathaniel D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch (open access)

Electric Switch

Patent for an electric switch. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Ramsay, Robert L. & Bunnell, J. H. and Company
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cot-Canopy (open access)

Cot-Canopy

Patent for a cot with a surrounding canopy that is designed to keep insects away from the user.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Kerridge, Isaac Curtis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
Date: January 21, 1913
Creator: Darche, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for a shipping crate that has detachable parts and is able to be folded. Illustrations included.
Date: October 5, 1909
Creator: Payne, Don F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Financial Controls Over the Expansion of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (open access)

An Audit Report on Financial Controls Over the Expansion of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the sufficiency and effectiveness of financial controls over expansion activities at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.
Date: October 1998
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate (open access)

Collapsible Crate

Patent for a collapsible crate. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Orr, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Wheel (open access)

Automobile-Wheel

Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Messerli, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties (open access)

Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties

This report describes the methodology of data collection and analysis, and examples of maps that can be created with the database information.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Meyer, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Technical support -- Inter-model comparison for Corpus Christi Bay testbed: Final Report for Project (open access)

Technical support -- Inter-model comparison for Corpus Christi Bay testbed: Final Report for Project

Report on specific tasks in a coastal project including "results for Corpus Christi Bay circulation using OHSU's SELFE model (Zhang and Baptista 2008), as a part of the inter-model comparison exercise" (p. 1).
Date: May 2010
Creator: Zhang, Y. Joseph
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi Historically Underutilized Business Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi Historically Underutilized Business Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Strategic plan for the Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi outlining goals, objectives, measures, and other information about working with Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUBs) during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: June 25, 2012
Creator: Texas A & M University--Corpus Christi
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Testing geopressured geothermal reservoirs in existing wells: Pauline Kraft Well No. 1, Nueces County, Texas. Final report (open access)

Testing geopressured geothermal reservoirs in existing wells: Pauline Kraft Well No. 1, Nueces County, Texas. Final report

The Pauline Kraft Well No. 1 was originally drilled to a depth of 13,001 feet and abandoned as a dry hole. The well was re-entered in an effort to obtain a source of GEO/sup 2/ energy for a proposed gasohol manufacturing plant. The well was tested through a 5-inch by 2-3/8 inch annulus. The geological section tested was the Frio-Anderson sand of Mid-Oligocene age. The interval tested was from 12,750 to 12,860 feet. A saltwater disposal well was drilled on the site and completed in a Micocene sand section. The disposal interval was perforated from 4710 to 4770 feet and from 4500 to 4542 feet. The test well failed to produce water at substantial rates. Initial production was 34 BWPD. A large acid stimulation treatment increased productivity to 132 BWPD, which was still far from an acceptable rate. During the acid treatment, a failure of the 5-inch production casing occurred. The poor production rates are attributed to a reservoir with very low permeability and possible formation damage. The casing failure is related to increased tensile strain resulting from cooling of the casing by acid and from the high surface injection pressure. The location of the casing failure is now known …
Date: January 1, 1981
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Gage for Bias-Cutters. (open access)

Gage for Bias-Cutters.

Patent for a gauge for bias-cutters that produces "a pair of shears or scissors and provide the same with such additions as will adapt them to accurately cut to a predetermined width bias strips of any fabric" (lines 10-14).
Date: May 8, 1894
Creator: Steen, Nevada
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Blind Slats. (open access)

Fastening for Blind Slats.

Patent for a new and improved fastening for blind slats. This design "consists in a device for use with a blind to clamp the slat-rod, and thereby retain the slats more or less open or closed" (lines 7-9).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Evans, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Milk Pan and Curd or Cheese Mold. (open access)

Combined Milk Pan and Curd or Cheese Mold.

Patent for a new and improved combined milk pan and curd or cheese mold. This design "consists in a dairy or kitchen utensil composed, mainly, of a pan with spout and stopper, and a detachable screen-cover to the pan constructed to also form a mold, and otherwise of peculiar construction" (lines 8-12).
Date: August 11, 1885
Creator: Noessel, Sarah J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator. (open access)

Axle Lubricator.

Patent for a new and improved axle lubricator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel or reservoir, its piston, and screw of the passage leading up from the top of the barrel-chamber, and the tube passing through the axle-collar and into a cavity of the axle arm" (lines 92-97).
Date: October 7, 1884
Creator: Keller, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History