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We continue to investigate spt-type functions that arise from Bailey pairs. In this third paper on the subject, we proceed to introduce additional spt-type functions. We prove simple Ramanujan type congruences for these functions which can be explained by an spt-crank-type function. The spt-crank-type functions are actually defined first, with the spt-type functions coming from setting z = 1 in this definition. We find some of the spt-crank-type functions to have interesting representations as single...

Bringmann, Lovejoy, and Osburn (2009, 2010) showed that the generating functions of the spt-overpartition functions $\overline{spt}\left(n\right)$, ${\overline{spt}}_1\left(n\right)$, ${\overline{spt}}_2\left(n\right)$, and M2spt(n) are quasimock theta functions, and satisfy a number of simple Ramanujan-like congruences. Andrews, Garvan, and Liang (2012) defined an spt-crank in terms of weighted vector partitions which combinatorially explain simple congruences modulo 5 and 7 for spt(n). Chen, Ji, and Zang (2013) were able to define this spt-crank in terms of ordinary partitions. In this...