Gustav Mees

Gustav Mees was an engineer and aero inventor. He filed some patents from 81 Schlüterstrasse, Charlottenburg, near Berlin. As of Feb 4, 1911, he writes of his addresses that he had resided at 143 Kantstrasse, Charlottenburg, Germany but now resided at Wilhelmstrasse 20, Ronsdorf, Germany.

He shows up in Wikipedia and elsewhere on the net as the inventor of the "desmodromic valve" in an 1896 patent. These are valves controlling gas flow to an engineer which are "closed by a cam and leverage system, rather than by a more conventional spring."

He filed extensively, as indicated by his name-based results on Espacenet. His filings in Austria and Switzerland may have had more to do with motors and combustion and not specifically to do with aeronautics.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Gustav Mees

• Patent DE-1909-247221 (English title: Hang glider with lifting screw, Filing date: 1909-12-08)
• Patent FR-1909-410140 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Filing date: 1909-12-08)
• Patent US-1913-1065263 (English title: Aeroplane steering and stabilizing mechanism, Filing date: 1910-01-18)
• Patent US-1912-1047266 (Filing date: 1910-02-12)
• Patent FR-1910-410140.12658 (English title: Method and devices for automatically stabilizing, steering in height and facilitating the starting of flying devices, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140 • Patent DE-1910-02-01 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-02-12)
• Patent FR-1910-410140.12452 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140 • Patent DE-1910-01-29 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-02-12)
• Patent DE-1910-249217 (English title: Hang glider with lifting screw, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-247221, Filing date: 1910-02-16)
• Patent FR-1910-410140.12828 (English title: Method and devices for automatically stabilizing, steering in height and facilitating the starting of flying devices, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140 • Patent DE-1910-03-05 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-04-23)
• Patent FR-1909-410140.12827 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140 • Patent DE-1910-02-15 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-04-23)
• Patent FR-1909-410140.12828 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Filing date: 1910-04-23)
• Patent FR-1909-410140.12830 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140 • Patent DE-1910-04-26 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-05-23)
• Patent FR-1910-410140.13073 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-410140, Filing date: 1910-07-26)
• Patent US-1914-1096045 (Filing date: 1910-08-08)
• Patent FR-1910-421036 (English title: Propeller-driven flying machine with turbine-shaped thruster and steam turbine drive, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1910-01-20 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-10-03)
• Patent GB-1910-25749 (English title: A Method of, and Apparatus for, Automatically Steadying and Controlling the Elevation of Flying Machines, and Facilitating the Starting and Landing thereof, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-11-22 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1910-11-05)
• Patent GB-1911-2041 (Filing date: 1911-01-26)
• Patent GB-1911-2904 (English title: Gyroscopic stabilizing propellers to facilitate the ascent and landing of flying machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1910-02-15 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1911-02-04)
• Patent GB-1911-3882 (English title: A Method of and Means for Automatically Stabilizing Flying Machines in the Event of Failure of the Motor, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1910-03-05 Gustav Mees • Patent GB-1910-25749, Filing date: 1911-02-15)
• Patent GB-1911-4165 (Filing date: 1911-02-18)
• Patent GB-1911-5070 (Filing date: 1911-02-28)
• Patent GB-1911-5071 (Filing date: 1911-02-28)
• Patent GB-1911-27625 (Filing date: 1911-12-08)
• Patent FR-1912-439343 (English title: Improvements to hydro-aeroplanes and similar devices, VTOL as well, helicopter, hybrid, Filing date: 1912-01-24)
• Patent FR-1912-439989 (English title: Improvements to the means for mounting propellers, and more specifically ascending propellers with variable pitch, on aircraft, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-04-03 Gustav Mees • Patent FR-1910-410140.12658 • Patent FR-1910-410140.13073, Filing date: 1912-02-10)
• Patent FR-1912-441314 (English title: Improvements to propellers, and especially to overhead propellers, with changeable tilt blades, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-12-15 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1912-03-13)
• Patent GB-1912-13883 (Filing date: 1912-06-13)
• Patent FR-1913-458282 (English title: Improvements made to floats to be fitted to devices such as, in particular, hydroaeroplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-02-20 Gustav Mees • Patent DE-1913-03-26 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1913-05-23)
• Patent GB-1913-12371 (English title: Floats for aircraft to land on water, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-02-20 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1913-05-27)
• Patent GB-1913-12372 (English title: Improvements in floats for aircraft to land on either water or land, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-03-26 Gustav Mees, Filing date: 1913-05-27)

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Names	Gustav Mees
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Countries	DE
Locations	Charlottenburg
Occupations	engineer
Tech areas	Propellers, Valve, Equilibrium, Aerodynamics, Gas, Steam, Propulsion, Steam propulsion, Coleopter, Aerodynamics, Design, LTA, VTOL, Hybrid, Helicopter, Motors, combustion, Heavier-than-air, Takeoff, Landing, Frame
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