Dean, Reginald S. Papers

1927-1961

Assistant Director, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1942-1946
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FOLDER TITLE LIST
BUREAU OF MINES: Correspondence File

Box 1

  • A
  • Ambrose, P.M.
  • B
  • C
  • Clemmer, J. Bruce
  • D
  • Dietrich, W.F.
  • Gross, John
  • H-J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • McLaughlin, J.J. (folder 1)

Box 2

  • McLaughlin, J.J. (folder 2)
  • Meyer, Charles G. (patent case)
  • O-T
BUREAU OF MINES: Subject File
  • Articles on metallurgy - miscellaneous
  • Brossert, H.A. and Company
  • Chemical warfare, 1946-1947
  • Chromite-Shepard Chromite Beach Sands, Coos County, Oregon, 1945
  • Crimora Research and Development Company
  • Dean, Reginald S. - articles on metals
  • Dean, Reginald S. - correspondence re resignation and establishment as consultant metallurgist - 1946
  • Emulsification of slag metals
  • Flotation on Monet (Montana) chromite for Metals Reserve Company - 1944
  • Germany language report (not translated)
  • Interior Department correspondence, 1942-1945

Box 3

  • Matte smelting of manganese
  • Metallurgical investigations other than manganese benefactions
  • Metals - alunite
  • Metals - electrostatic separation
  • Metals - manganese
  • Metals and alloys - finishing
  • Metals and alloys - joining
  • Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.) - Field information Agency - technical report on anodes July 25, 1946
  • Patent law
  • Photomigraphics

Box 4

  • Reports - The Electrochemical Society 1946-1947
  • Reports - general - 1934-1938
  • Report - chromite (Montana) 1944-1945
  • Reports - general - 1945-1946
  • Reports - general - 1948-1951
  • Report - Vanadium (Wyoming) 1949
  • Report - Selenium (Wyoming) 1949
  • Reports - miscellaneous
  • Resignation, letter
  • War Minerals report 192 - surface hardening of titanium- 1944
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Correspondence File

Box 5

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • Commerce, Department of (Office of Technical Services)
  • D-E
  • F-G
  • H-I
  • Interior, Department of the (Office of the Secretary)
  • Interior, Department of the (Bureau of Mines)
  • J-K
  • Kieshan, Frank R.
  • L-M
  • Lithium Corporation of America, Inc. (2 folders)
  • McGregor, J.L.

Box 6

  • Monalith Portland Midwest Company
  • N-P
  • Parker, Ralph E. (patent attorney) (3 folders)
  • R-S
  • Redwine, Robert W.
  • School of Mines-University of Missouri-Rolla
  • Strauss, Jerome-Vanadium Corporation of America
  • T-W
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Metallurgical Processes

Box 7

  • Battery oxide
  • Machinery blueprints - Metalloy Cooperation
  • Report - Sulphur dioxide process for treatment of magnesium ore (3 folders)
  • Magazine articles
  • Miscellaneous reports - 1943-1948
  • Miscellaneous reports - 1952-1953
  • Miscellaneous reports - 1954
  • Table of conversion factors for engineers
  • Articles and reports (folders 1 and 2)

Box 8

  • Articles and reports (folders 3 and 4)
  • Correspondence (2 folders)
  • Notes
  • Receipts - financial records
  • Industrial File - Ajax Metal Cooperation
  • Industrial File - California Institute of Technology-Grace Chemical Research and Development Company

Box 9

  • Industrial File - International Nickel Company, Inc.
  • Industrial File - Lithium Cooperation
  • Industrial File - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • Industrial File - U.S. Patent Office (2 folders)
  • Industrial File - University of Michigan Research Institute
  • National Carbon Company - appraisal report - 1947
  • Patent agent - Reginald S. Dean
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Patent File

Box 10

  • Anderson, Clarence T. and Reginald S. Dean 1947-1948
  • Block, W.E.H. - 1950
  • Chicago Development Company - 1945-1952
  • Davis, Charles W. - 1939-1945
  • Dean, Reginald S. - invention reports - 1948-1949
  • Dean, Reginald S. - 1943-1947
  • Dean, Reginald S. - 1948-1949
  • Dean, Reginald S. - 1950-1954

Box 11

  • Dean, Reginald S. and A.L. Fox - 1949-1951
  • Fox, A.L. - 1948-1949
  • Fox, A.L. - 1948-1949 - invention reports
  • Fox, A.L. - 1948-1949 - 1950-1952
  • Hood, Donald and Stanley - 1946-1948

Box 12

  • McGregor, James L. - 1945-1951
  • Moss, Harison C. - 1946-1947
  • Moss, Harison C. - 1948-1950
  • Raney, Benjamin - 1951
  • Redivine, Robert W. - 1945
  • St. Clair, Hillary W. - 1939-1948
  • St. Clair, Hillary W. and E. Vernon Potter - 1939-1940

Box 13

  • Foreign patents - correspondence re. 1953 (2 folders)
  • Miscellaneous Materials (2 folders)
  • Rules of practice - U.S. Patent Office
  • U.S. Court of Appeals
  • Patent law - materials re. 1944-1948
  • Patent references 1946-1961
  • Patents - abandoned - card file - 1948-1951
  • Patents - bank forms - Reginald S. Dean
  • Patents - list of inventions and patents applied for 1939-1943

Box 14

  • Patents - metallurgical - notes and graphs - miscellaneous
  • Patents - metallurgical - chromium
  • Patents - metallurgical - manganese extraction
  • Patents - metallurgical - manganese plating
  • Patents - metallurgical - manganese separation
  • Patents - metallurgical - tantalum (2 folders)
  • Patents - publications - 1948-1951
  • Patents - status cards
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: P.R. Mallory Company File
  • Engineering reports - 1946-1948 (5 folders)

Box 16

  • Engineering reports - correspondence re. - 1948-1949
  • Engineering reports - 1951-1952 (2 folders)
  • Metallurgical Research Department - reports (folders 1-3)

Box 17

  • Metallurgical Research Department - reports (folders 4-7)
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Miscellaneous Files

Box 18

  • Advertising
  • Batteries, dry
  • Bell Telephone System - technical reports
  • Book on titanium metallurgy (2 folders)
  • Chromium production
  • Crimoro Research and Development Corporation
  • Crowley, C.A. - correspondence
  • Customs - financial
  • Dean, Reginald S. - personal and financial (folder 1)

Box 19

  • Dean, Reginald S. - personal and financial (folders 2-5)
  • Emulsification project
  • Frederickstown, Missouri

Box 20

  • Glass furnace
  • Internal surfaces
  • Keeshaw, Frank, Jr. - assignments
  • Leute, K.M. (Metalloy Corporation)
  • Lithium
  • Manganese ploting
  • P.R. Mallory & Company, Inc. - titanium project
  • Metal ceramics
  • Metals - general
  • Mine safety
  • Modern metals and materials
  • New emergency materials
  • New jobs - correspondence re opportunities in metallurgy
  • Patent agent
  • Patents - Reginald S. Dean
  • Patents - Cresop Moss
  • Permanent magnets
  • Potter, E. Verum

Box 21

  • Rectigiers
  • Records of European trip - 1952
  • Springs
  • Stormbeach and Line Beach Chromite Sands - Del Norte County, California
  • Titanium (5 folders)
  • Towsley, Frank H.
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Publications File

Box 22

  • Bureau of Mines - reports
  • Journal of the Electrochemical Society
  • Journal of the Metals (3 folders)
  • Metal Progress
  • Miscellaneous publications
CONSULTANT METALLURGIST FILES: Symposium Titanium

Box 23

  • allotropism
  • amount of control of temperatures
  • arc melting
  • bending
  • chlorides
  • commercial alloys
  • corrosion
  • drawing
  • electralic titanium
  • Flotitanite
  • Forging
  • German language material [not translated]
  • Heat treatment of alloys
  • Hiatz and present status of titanium
  • Industrial melting
  • Inflammability and explosiblity of metal powders
  • Isothermal transformation
  • Machining
  • Mechanical properties
  • Non-heat treatable titanium
  • Pickeling
  • Reduction of chlorides
  • Reduction of sponge in metals
  • Reduction of titanium oxide
  • Refining
  • Rolling
  • Scales on titanium
  • Silver - titanium
  • thermal decomposition
  • time - temperature transformation

Box 24

  • Titanium - general
  • Titanium aluminum alloys
  • Welding
  • Western Precipitation Corporation
CHICAGO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: General File
  • American Chemical Society
  • Chace, W.M. Company - alloys of high electrical resistance and low temperature
  • Chace, W.M. Company - bimetallic strip
  • Chace, W.M. Company - license agreements
  • Chace, W.M. Company - vibration damping alloys
  • Chace, W.M. Company - miscellaneous correspondence

Box 25

  • Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd - applications received from
  • Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd - British Empire applications filed by
  • Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd - correspondence re British Empire patents (folder 1)

Box 26

  • Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd - correspondence re British Empire patents (folder 2)
  • Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd - license agreements
  • Continental Ore Corporation
  • Dallas Dan area - Oregon and Washington
  • Dean, Reginald S. - personal
  • Dean, Reginald S. -retirement from Government service, "Educated cams solve problems of the run," Popular Science, January 1956
  • Electro Manganese Corporation - general correspondence (folder 1-5)

Box 27

  • Electro Manganese Corporation - general correspondence (folder 6)
  • Electro Manganese Corporation - corporate matters
  • Electro Manganese Corporation - plant correspondence
  • Emulsol Corporation - general correspondence (4 folders)
  • Emulsol Corporation - Dean-Wright flotation, correspondence re

Box 28

  • Emulsol Corporation - magnetic separation - correspondence re (3 folders)
  • Emulsol Corporation - foreign patents
  • McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. - abstracts - translations from foreign language technical literature - miscellaneous (4 folders)

Box 29

  • P.R. Mallory and Company
  • Manganese Alloy Corporation
  • Markey, Brigadier General D. John
  • Metalloy Corporation
  • Notes, charts, graphs - miscellaneous
  • Patents - correspondence re
  • Patents - foreign - correspondence re
  • Pitkin, Lucius, Inc.
  • Rand report - reduction with metals
  • Raney, Ben B. - correspondence re patent (2 folders)
  • Raney, Ben B. - motion to dissolve under rule 232

Box 30

  • Reports - miscellaneous
  • Riott, John P. - general correspondence and reports (2 folders)
  • Selenium production for rectifiers - report (4 folders)
  • Symposium on titanium and titanium alloys - 1952-1953
  • Timken Roller Bearing Company

Box 31

  • Titanium - correspondence re patent applications re titanium production
  • Titanium - electrolic process
  • Titanium - historical develo