Process of Extracting Wax from the Candelilla Plant Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Process of Extracting Wax from the Candelilla Plant

Creator

  • Inventor: Sharp, Benjamin Young
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Benjanin Young Sharp, of Uvalde, Texas

Contributor

  • Witness: Fenley, G. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Flynt, Lee D.
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1911-10-30
  • Acceptance Date: 1912-02-27

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a method of extracting wax from a candelilla plant using gasoline and benzine or naphtha in order to extract a light yellow wax, rather than the dark green wax currently extracted.
  • Physical Description: [1] p. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Wax plants -- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Farming
  • Keyword: wax

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Uvalde County - Uvalde

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 1018589
  • Government Documents No.: 02/657631
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth514429

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed October 30, 1911. Serial No. 657,631. (No model.)
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