Pie-Carrier. (open access)

Pie-Carrier.

Patent for "relatively inexpensive carriers for delivering or shipping pies" (lines 11-12), including one illustration.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Hubig, Simon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus. (open access)

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved ring for games. This design is "part of a game apparatus, a ring of wood of a form adapted to be rolled over a flat surface, having a ring of metal cast in a groove cut in its inner surface" (lines 57-60).
Date: July 15, 1884
Creator: Fisher, Charles A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Steam-Boilers (open access)

Safety Device for Steam-Boilers

Patent for a safety device designed to cut off steam in the even of an accident.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Foskett, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry Closet. (open access)

Dry Closet.

Patent for improvements in dry closets with an illustration. The improvements patented are specific to separating "fecal matter and urine" (line 15).
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Moore, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Making Vessels Invisible. (open access)

Device for Making Vessels Invisible.

Patent for improvements in "air and water craft" (line 13) invisible including illustrations. These improvements include invisibility through "plurality of plates or sections" (lines 18-19) and diffuse light, disguising the vessels.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Chaddick, Mark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flour Sifter and Mixer. (open access)

Flour Sifter and Mixer.

Patent for a "simply constructed" (line 11-12) flour sifter and mixer wherein the flour can be "thoroughly mixed without removal of the sifter" (line 12-13) including an illustration.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Newcomer, Stella B. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "consist[s] of the hopper, the tapering feed-tube, the distributing-chamber provided with inwardly-projecting radial pins, the discharge-spout, and the shaft provided at its upper end with stirrer pins, at its middle part with a tapering feed-screw, and at its lower part with distributing pins" (lines 9-15).
Date: July 15, 1884
Creator: Hopper, Thomas Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Volatilization of Fission Products by Melting of Reactor Fuel Plates (open access)

The Volatilization of Fission Products by Melting of Reactor Fuel Plates

Experiments in the controlled melting of irradiated fuel specimens, particularly of the APPR, STR, and MTR types have confirmed that prolonged heating in air at temperatures in excess of the melting point results in the release of a large portion of the radioactivity. On the other hand, a moderate amount of heating in air or steam sufficient only to melt a specimen results mainly in the partial volatilization of the rare gases; the halogens, iodine and bromine; and the alkali metals, cesium and rubidium. In the presence of air or water vapor, strontium and other fission products are not released. At trace concentration of fission products, slow melting of the APPR plate at 1525 C in air or steam effected the release of 50 percent of the rare gases, 33 percent of the iodine, 9 percent of the cesium and traces of strontium. After 25% burn-up, the cesium value increased to about 60 percent. Aluminum alloy of the MTR type, also at trace concentration, upon melting at 700 C released up to 2 percent of the iodine, 10 percent of the rare gases, and negligible portions of other fission products. Zirconium alloy of the STR type after 15 percent burn …
Date: July 15, 1957
Creator: Parker, Geogre W. & Creek, George E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for machine that cleans seed cotton before it is ginned by removing dirt, twigs, and other foreign matter.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History