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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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1944] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 293 rates necessary. T h e combustion rate varies, and in mild weather, if the draft is greatly reduced to eliminate overheating, the flow of primary coking air at times becomes so greatly' reduced that the flames are extinguished, oxygen accumulates, gases liberated from the coking coal become ignited, and a slight explosion or puff occurs, similar to the phenomenon which occurs when a hand is placed over a kerosene lamp. Experiments have demonstrated that the furnace may be controlled by the addition of a damper on the coking air inlet to shut off the coking air entirely when there is no demand for heat, and the addition of a second damper on the orifice which admits the primary under-grade air to the ashpit. The two dampers can be operated simultaneously by a suitable chain arrangement, or a single damper can be used on one properly designed inlet box, connected by suitable ducts to the coking chamber and the chamber below the grates. This matter has been submitted to Mr. Charles J. Merriam, patent counsel, and after careful study he has advised that it will be necessary to prepare and file two additional applications covering the one-damper and two-damper control schemes. T h e third control scheme has been developed by the Chief Engineer of the Lennox Furnace Company, licensee of the University of Illinois Foundation under this patent. This arrangement is called a centralized air control and includes a special inlet box equipped with a special damper. This development is covered by a clause in the licensing contract, under which the Chief Engineer will apply for a patent, to be assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation, which holds the patent, with shop rights or right to use retained by the Lennox Company. Under the licensing contract the Foundation is required to pay the expense of procuring the patent. The Committee recommends to the Board of Trustees that applications for patents be made on the three discoveries. The University of Illinois Foundation has adopted a resolution requesting the University to apply for patents on these three discoveries, and suggesting that if and when the patents are obtained they be turned over to the Foundation for whatever marketable value they have. 2. Method of Making Glass Objects.—Dr. W . M. Langdon, Assistant P r o fessor of Chemical Engineering, has developed a novel but simple method of making certain specific glass objects by which glass may be molded at low temperatures. T h e method appears to have little commercial value as it would be used purely for laboratory purposes. Professor William C. Rose, Acting Head of the Department of Chemistry, doubts that the University would recover from it the cost of procuring a patent. T h e Committee recommends that this discovery be released to the discoverer. 3. Ordnance Devices.—Certain discoveries of munitions devices have been developed during research work under contracts with the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. These discoveries are described in a memorandum endorsed "Patents 3 and 4" over the signature of the Secretary of the Board. It is recommended that all but one of these discoveries be released to the Government of the United States of America, and that the Board exercise its right to apply for a patent on the one not released, with of course a royaltyfree license to the Government. I concur in these recommendations. On motion of Mr. Nickell, the Board concurred in these recommendations. ADMINISTRATION O F KENDRIC C. BABCOCK FELLOWSHIPS (4) On May 21, 1931 (Minutes, page 235), the late Kendric C. Babcock, formerly Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University, made a gift to the University for the support of research, fellowships, and publications in the field of history and political science. T h e gift provided that the income was to be paid to sisters of the donor during their lives. The last of these beneficiaries recently passed away and it is now desirable to provide for the administration of the fund. Section I I I of the deed of gift reads as follows:
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