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Automatic Gas-Release Packer.

Description: Patent for automatic gas release packer that uses constant pressure regulated by spring-controlled valves for better control when lifting oil out of wells.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Cummings, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Geologic map and sections of the Raton Coal Field, Colfax County, N. Mex. : showing outcrops of coal beds.

Description: Map shows rock composition, coal mining activity, roads, railroads, ranches, and towns in Colfax County, New Mexico; layout of town of Raton. Insets: "Section along line A-A" and "Section along line B-B." Relief shown by contours, spot heights, and profiles. Scale [ca. 1:62,500].
Date: 1923
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Hoisting Drum

Description: Patent for improvements to hoisting drums for use in drilling oil, gas, and water wells, with the object being "to employ a plurality of hoisting drums upon the same shaft so that the cable may be wound partly on one drum and partly on another" (lines 73-76) such that the danger of cable cutting is decreased and the speed of operation is increased, including illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1922
Creator: Suman, John R. & Gamble, Adrian R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process For The Reduction Of Iron And Lead Ores.

Description: Patent for a process that reduces iron and lead ores. This is done through two distinct combustion processes, the first of which converts the fuel and oxygen into carbon dioxide and the second process which produces carbon monoxide, that can produce iron or steel of different grades.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Anderson, Robert J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Mining Sulfur.

Description: Patent for innovations in the underground fusion or Frasch process of mining sulfur, "which comprises conducting an appropriate fusing medium [such as hot water] into the formation containing the sulfur deposit and thereby melting the sulfur" (lines 91-95). Central to the innovations is the use of a compressed gas to "eliminate or largely reduce heat losses in porous rock and exhausted sulfur regions at the higher levels of the mine where the presence of the hot water is of no benefit so far as… more
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Drachenberg, August Toby
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Recovery of sulfur from its ores

Description: Patent for Recovery of Sulfur from its Ores which is used to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable other skilled art to which it appertains to make and use the same
Date: April. 12, 1921
Creator: {Gilbert A. Bragg}
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Boring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a well-boring apparatus, an invention of a drilling apparatus using a form of power to transmit rotary movement to the string of a pipe. This invention is designed to lock the rotary elements against movement when the drill or pipe is moved or adjusted within its support.
Date: November 29, 1921
Creator: Boykin, Burwell, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Boring Apparatus

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in well boring apparatus. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character described embodying a rotary table and a novel means for connecting the same to the string of pipe, which extends down into the well and which is rotated by said table and in turn rotates the boring tool carried by the lower end of said spring of pipe" (lines 9-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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