Australia

AU is an abbreviation in this wiki referring to Australia.

Lawrence Hargrave was a prominent Australian aero inventor who didn't file for patents, on principle.

Patent system

The Australian Patent Office was founded in 1904. Before that it appears patents were filed with the British government. Australia became independent in 1901 and we don't know the story from 1901 to 1904.

This office issued patents beginning with number 1 in 1904 through number 25,875 in 1935 (after which it skipped to 100,001). Evidently the numbering was reset in 1911. Stay tuned for further clarification.

The official publication was the Australian Official Journal of Patents.

We don't yet have many patents from Australia. There must be far more. Patent AU-1914-10738 turned up in an espacenet search but doesn't contain a facsimile; nor does the Australian government's patent website (http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au) appear to have an entry for it.

Australian patents typically have a date filed and a date advertised which we interpret as date published. Sometimes there is also a different date for complete specification filed. The patents are generally sorted by year filed, as si done in Britain.

The Australian patents are well marked and indexed by subject matter classification; here the most relevant group of classifications falls under AU 90, especially AU 90.1, AU 90.3, and AU 90.5. Of course inventions in other categories, for example related to propulsion, stability, and material, are relevant as well.

Linking to an Australian patent record

See Template talk:AUpatentsources. The template links to a record in IP Australia's Pericles system. Once there, open the Bibliographic Data and scroll down to a link to the specification. Here's an example patent which links to espacenet and to Pericles: Patent AU-1912-545612

References

Patents filed in Australia

• Patent AU-1904-760 (English title: Aerial machines, Inventors: Henry Shepley Booth, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1903-12149)
• Patent AU-1905-4472 (English title: Means of controlling the speed of screw-propelled ships, Inventors: Edward Smethurst, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1904-793746)
• Patent AU-1909-14790 (English title: Improvements in or relating to aeroplanes and the like machines for mechanical flight, Inventors: Arthur Henry Edwards • Martin Diederich Rucker, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1908-4519)
• Patent AU-1909-13625 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Todd Churchill Woodworth)
• Patent AU-1908-12779 (English title: Aeromobile, Inventors: Charles Launcelot Garland)
• Patent AU-1910-18265 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: William Wallace Gibson • David William Hanbury, Supplementary to patent: Patent CA-1910-131159)
• Patent AU-1910-17277 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William John Hastings Beach)
• Patent AU-1910-16741 (English title: Aeroplane flying machines, Inventors: William Whitney Christmas, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1910-957744)
• Patent AU-1909-1372009 (English title: Improvements in and relating to Flying Machines (in which gravity is used to effect the motion of flapping wings), Inventors: Newton Roberts Gordon)
• Patent AU-1909-16719 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: John Washington Wilson, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1909-970771)
• Patent AU-1909-16062 (English title: Safety aeroplane flying machine, Inventors: Edward Temple)
• Patent AU-1909-15563 (English title: Steering and controlling device for screw propelled vessels, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund)
• Patent AU-1909-15987 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: Simon Brubaker Minnich, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1909-1010443)
• Patent AU-1909-16369 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: George Montalt Bellasis)
• Patent AU-1909-16128 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: George Edwin Richardson)
• Patent AU-1909-18014 (Inventors: Thomas Augustus Dring, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1909-12556)
• Patent AU-1909-16202 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Robert Allan Wyllie)
• Patent AU-1911-493 (English title: Improvement in flying machines, Inventors: William Swart Romme, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1910-1041876)
• Patent AU-1911-379 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: Isaac Henry Storey, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1910-885)
• Patent AU-1911-922 (English title: Propelling vanes for flying machines, Inventors: Max Goehler)
• Patent AU-1911-2415 (English title: Internal combustion engine for motor cars, flying machines and the like, Inventors: Christopher Henry Ellis • Ernest Hamilton Heinke)
• Patent AU-1911-510 (English title: An automatic balancing and horizontal sustaining airplane, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin)
• Patent AU-1910-20205 (English title: Safety alighting attachment for flying machines, Inventors: Jean Francis Webb, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1910-1011683)
• Patent AU-1910-20097 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Frederick William Wiles)
• Patent AU-1911-2380 (Inventors: Lewis Ginter Young, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1911-1109891)
• Patent AU-1911-490 (English title: An improved aeroplane, Inventors: Lawrence Hugh Carroll • Ernest Schultz)
• Patent AU-1909-16634 (English title: Airship or aerial planitrope, Inventors: Basil de Burgh Newth)
• Patent AU-1911-65 (English title: Steering devices for airships, Inventors: Ivan Monroe Sawyer)
• Patent AU-1912-4103 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: Thomas Augustus Dring, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-18014 • Patent GB-1911-5162)
• Patent AU-1912-4350 (English title: Vertically ascending flying machines, Inventors: Kurt Schultze)
• Patent AU-1912-3576 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: William Elmer Dennis)
• Patent AU-1912-545612 (English title: Aeroplane having automatic stability, Inventors: Georges de Bothezat, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1911-05-15 Georges de Bothezat)
• Patent AU-1911-199 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Cassius Edward Lamburth)
• Patent AU-1912-6224 (English title: Driving and sustaining surfaces applicable to navigation, in air and water, Inventors: Antoine-Padoue Filippi)
• Patent AU-1913-8156 (English title: Improvements in flying 1 machines, Inventors: Franz Xaver Wels, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1912-75092)
• Patent AU-1913-1011013 (English title: Improvements in and relating to propellers, Inventors: Charles Algernon Parsons)
• Patent AU-1913-9910 (English title: Aeroplane screw propellers, Inventors: William Forester)
• Patent AU-1914-13180 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: George Raymond Lawrence, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1913-04-21 George Raymond Lawrence)
• Patent AU-1913-10738 (English title: Improvements in aeroplane shock absorbers, Inventors: Nazaire Lacrotte)
• Patent AU-1913-9249 (English title: Aeroplane flying machines, Inventors: William Whitney Christmas, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-16741)
• Patent AU-1914-14003 (English title: Aerial and like vessels, Inventors: George Sutherland Dodman, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1913-16499)
• Patent AU-1914-12470 (English title: Improvements in or connected with hydro-aeroplanes adapted to travel on or over water, Inventors: William Basto Quick • John James Talbot, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1913-03-20 William Basto Quick and John James Talbot)
• Patent AU-1916-2869 (English title: Flying boats, Inventors: Glenn Hammond Curtiss)
• Patent AU-1916-221516 (English title: Duplicate controls on aeroplanes, Inventors: Bert Hinkler)
• Patent AU-1916-2868 (English title: Machines for aerial and nautical navigation, Inventors: Glenn Hammond Curtiss)
• Patent AU-1917-4875 (English title: Aeroplane controlling and stabilizing device, Inventors: Alfred John Macy, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1916-1327055)
• Patent AU-1918-8223 (English title: An improved vacuum fuel feed device for an internal combustion engine of an aeroplane or other aerial vessel, Inventors: Webb Jay)
• Patent AU-1919-1099819 (English title: Improvements in or connected with aeroplane fuselages, Inventors: Walter George Tarrant)
• Patent AU-1918-8217 (English title: Flying machine construction, Inventors: Federico Caproni)
• Patent AU-1918-9236 (English title: Aeroplane controls, Inventors: Herman Clark Anderson, Supplementary to patent: Patent CA-1918-192493)

Patents filed by Australians

• Patent FR-1885-170684 (English title: New procedure for making artificial stones, Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal)
• Patent US-1885-335707 (English title: Manufacturing artificial stone, Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal)
• Patent GB-1896-1877 (English title: Improvements in Dirigible Balloons and Flying Machines, Inventors: Thomas Fraser)
• Patent GB-1897-18935 (English title: flying machine, Inventors: George Hardacre)
• Patent GB-1897-15987 (English title: Flying Machines with Beating Wings, Inventors: Alexander Adams)
• Patent US-1901-686200 (English title: Wind motor, Inventors: Henry Braby)
• Patent DE-1904-157399 (English title: Beating wing arrangement for flying machine, Inventors: George McMullen)
• Patent GB-1904-1788 (English title: Aeronautic Apparatus, Inventors: George McMullen)
• Patent FR-1904-339777 (English title: Improvements to aircraft, Inventors: George McMullen)
• Patent US-1905-792154 (English title: Aeronautic apparatus, Inventors: George McMullen)
• Patent GB-1904-26500 (English title: Method of Preventing and Curing Consumption, Inventors: John Pugh)
• Patent US-1905-806607 (Inventors: George WESTLE)
• Patent GB-1909-22162 (English title: Aeromobile, Inventors: Charles Launcelot Garland, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1908-12779)
• Patent GB-1909-22021 (English title: Steering and Controlling Device for Screw Propelled Vessels including Air Ships, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-15563)
• Patent US-1907-921423 (English title: Screw propeller, Inventors: George Mackaness)
• Patent AU-1908-12779 (English title: Aeromobile, Inventors: Charles Launcelot Garland)
• Patent US-1909-922638 (English title: Bullet and projectile, Inventors: Edward Spencer)
• Patent AU-1909-15563 (English title: Steering and controlling device for screw propelled vessels, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund)
• Patent AU-1909-16062 (English title: Safety aeroplane flying machine, Inventors: Edward Temple)
• Patent US-1910-947833 (English title: Rudder for controlling the various movements of screw-propelled vessels, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-15563)
• Patent CA-1910-123446 (English title: Steering and controlling device for vessels and airships, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-15563)
• Patent DK-1910-13288 (English title: Mover for double or quadruple rudder for ship or airship, Inventors: John Peter Hemme Lund)
• Patent IT-1909-105398 (English title: Direction and control for propeller-boats and dirigible balloons, Inventors: Johan Peter Hemme Lund, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-15563)
• Patent FR-1910-412557 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: Newton Roberts Gordon, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-1372009)
• Patent NZ-1910-29260 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Arthur Marshall McIntosh)
• Patent AU-1910-17277 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William John Hastings Beach)
• Patent FR-1911-420469 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: William Francis Dugins, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1910-18683)
• Patent AU-1909-16128 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: George Edwin Richardson)
• Patent AU-1909-16369 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: George Montalt Bellasis)
• Patent AU-1909-16202 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Robert Allan Wyllie)
• Patent FR-1911-419623 (English title: Airplane, Inventors: William John Hastings Beach)
• Patent NZ-1909-26981 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William John Hastings Beach)
• Patent GB-1910-21231 (Inventors: Robert MCMULLAN)
• Patent GB-1911-25363 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Frederick William Wiles, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-20097)
• Patent AU-1910-20097 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Frederick William Wiles)
• Patent FR-1912-435407 (English title: Improved airplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Fredrick William Wiles, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-20097)
• Patent FR-1911-422771 (English title: Airplane propulsion, Inventors: George Montalt Bellasis, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1909-16369)
• Patent DK-1911-15003 (English title: Aircraft, Inventors: William Francis Dugins, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1910-18683)
• Patent GB-1910-19700 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William John Hastings Beach, Supplementary to patent: Patent NZ-1909-26981)
• Patent FR-1911-420639 (Inventors: Robert MCMULLAN)
• Patent CA-1911-136791 (English title: Aeronautical Craft, Inventors: William Francis Dugins, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1910-18683)
• Patent GB-1910-18683 (English title: Aeronautical Craft, Inventors: William Francis Dugins)
• Patent GB-1911-6303 (Inventors: Arthur Marshall MCINTOSH)
• Patent AU-1911-510 (English title: An automatic balancing and horizontal sustaining airplane, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin)
• Patent FR-1911-429085 (English title: Improvements made to flying machines, Inventors: William Farish Newman, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-04-21)
• Patent AU-1909-16634 (English title: Airship or aerial planitrope, Inventors: Basil de Burgh Newth)
• Patent AU-1911-490 (English title: An improved aeroplane, Inventors: Lawrence Hugh Carroll • Ernest Schultz)
• Patent FR-1911-427686 (Inventors: Arthur Marshall MCINTOSH)
• Patent GB-1911-9706 (English title: Flying machines, Inventors: William Farish Newman)
• Patent GB-1912-3214 (Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin)
• Patent US-1912-1037651 (Inventors: Robert McMullen)
• Patent GB-1912-101 (Inventors: Archibald David MACDONALD)
• Patent US-1912-1036044 (Inventors: Roy Desmond Wheeler)
• Patent FR-1912-444956 (English title: aeroplane with automatic stabilization, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1911-510)
• Patent GB-1912-4378 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1911-510)
• Patent NZ-1912-30924 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1911-510)
• Patent FR-1912-434606 (English title: Aeroplane improvements, Inventors: Lawrence Hugh Carroll • Ernest Schultz, Supplementary to patent: Australia 23 Feb 1911)
• Patent GB-1911-17528 (English title: Improved aeroplane, Inventors: Lawrence Hugh Carroll • Ernest Schultz)
• Patent GB-1913-26897 (Inventors: Joseph MACINANTE)
• Patent US-1913-1050222 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Arthur Marshall McIntosh)
• Patent FR-1913-450829 (English title: Improvements to aeroplanes, Inventors: Richard Murray O'Connell)
• Patent US-1913-1076339 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Frederick William Wiles, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-20097)
• Patent HU-1911-61224 (English title: "Kite flying", biplane, Inventors: William Francis Wiles • Thomas Macleod • Frederick William Wiles, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1910-20097)
• Patent US-1913-1052204 (English title: Automatic balancing and horizontal sustaining aeroplane, Inventors: George Brougham Hubert Austin, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1911-510)
• Patent AU-1913-9910 (English title: Aeroplane screw propellers, Inventors: William Forester)
• Patent US-1914-1095649 (Inventors: Archibald David MacDonald)
• Patent GB-1915-15504 (Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg)
• Patent BE-1916-276015 (English title: Mechanism of double command applicable to airplanes and machines or apparatus, Inventors: B. Hinkler • C.-C. Dean)
• Patent US-1916-1209923 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg)
• Patent GB-1916-113286 (Inventors: Bernard Percival Revenall)
• Patent GB-1917-106092 (Inventors: Albert John FORTESCUE)
• Patent CA-1916-175501 (English title: Control mechanism for aeroplanes, Inventors: Bert Hinkler, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1916-103918)
• Patent GB-1916-103918 (English title: Duplicate controlling means applicable to aeroplanes, Inventors: Bert Hinkler)
• Patent AU-1916-221516 (English title: Duplicate controls on aeroplanes, Inventors: Bert Hinkler)
• Patent FR-1918-488514 (Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg)
• Patent FR-1918-487618 (Inventors: Albert John FORTESCUE)
• Patent US-1918-1277590 (English title: Duplicate controlling means applicable to aeroplanes, Inventors: Bert Hinkler, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1916-221516)
• Patent US-1919-1290831 (Inventors: Albert John FORTESCUE)
• Patent FR-1919-492184 (English title: Mechanism for dual control applicable to aeroplanes or other machines, Inventors: Bert Hinkler • Christian Charles Dean, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1916-103918)
• Patent FR-1919-496834 (Inventors: James FERRIER)
• Patent US-1920-1340914 (English title: Heavier-than-air flying machine, Inventors: Albert Edward ROYLE)
• Patent US-1926-1589780 (Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg)
• Patent GB-1927-653688 (English title: Advanced chassis or undercarriage for flying machines, Inventors: Bert Hinkler)
• Patent FR-1927-653688 (English title: Advanced chassis or undercarriage for flying machines, Inventors: Bert Hinkler, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1927-653688)