[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Sea Systems Command Shipbuilding Support Office, August 5, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Sea Systems Command Shipbuilding Support Office, August 5, 2005]

Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Shipbuilding Support Office (NAVSHIPSO) Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Detachment Philadelphia representatives and Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation regarding the recommendation to relocate the NAVSHIPSO from Philadelphia, PA to NNSY in Virginia.
Date: August 10, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Smith, Hamilton E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disposition of Pensions Due Inmates of Naval Home, Philadelphia, Report (open access)

Disposition of Pensions Due Inmates of Naval Home, Philadelphia, Report

Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 5950 to provide for the disposition of pensions due inmates of the Naval Home in Philadelphia. It includes a report of the Navy Department in support of the proposed legislation.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum. (open access)

Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum.

Patent for apparatus and improving practices associated with distillation of petroleum as undistilled residues, as well as petroleum in other forms.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Van Dyke, John W.; Irish, William M.; Ellis, H. A. & Esterly, Edw. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Consumption Parameters for Automatic Mixture Control of Aircraft Engines (open access)

Air-Consumption Parameters for Automatic Mixture Control of Aircraft Engines

From Introduction: "The purpose of this analysis was to investigate the use of a function of intake-manifold pressure, exhaust back pressure, intake manifold temperature, and engine speed in place of a venturi as a means of measuring engine air consumption and to determine if this function is suitable for automatic mixture control."
Date: September 1, 1944
Creator: Shames, Sidney J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement (open access)

City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement

From Introduction: "In connection with the fuel investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines much information has been accumulated as to the smoke abatement activities in various cities. The essential features of the information are presented in this report, which, it is believed, will be of public interest and benefit, especially to those communities that are just beginning organized effort to abate unnecessary smoke."
Date: 1912
Creator: Flagg, Samuel B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting (open access)

Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting

Patent for Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Volz, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper Bag Machine. (open access)

Paper Bag Machine.

Patent for an improved paper bag machine, which rapidly converts continuously moving paper into bags.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tyson, F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Bag Machine. (open access)

Paper-Bag Machine.

Patent for improvements in the paper-bag machine (related to author's previous Patent No. 689,441, December 24, 1901) for the purpose of improving the mechanism for forming the primary fold of the bag-bottom in the bag-folding process, including descriptions of the machinery, parts, and illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Tyson, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Compund and Material for Use in Making the Same. (open access)

Rubber Compund and Material for Use in Making the Same.

Patent for a rubber compound, which is not damaged by oils and therefore usable in bearings. It features asphaltic bitumen rather than paraffin bitumen.
Date: December 31, 1907
Creator: Strain, Ebenezer W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid

Patent for a new and useful process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and the patent includes a list of solvents suitable for use in the process.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant for Generating Electricity. (open access)

Plant for Generating Electricity.

Patent for a "simple, durable, compact, and reliable plant, house, or means operated by the force and energy of the wind without supervision or attention, and generating electricity and storing the same for use" (lines 10-14).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bowen, George R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History