Jose Pesaña y Piñol

Jose Pesaña y Piñol was an engineer in Madrid, Spain. He filed two aeronautical patents in Spain, the second for a bird-shaped LTA vessel. His U.S. patent, a "pilot-car" for locomotives, does not seem relevant to aero but it tells us about him.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Jose Pesaña y Piñol

• Patent ES-1861-2320 (English title: Apparatus for directing directing aerostatic balloons, Filing date: 1861-07-06)
• Patent ES-1864-2622 (English title: apparatus (vehicle) for controlled flight, called the "Pesaña Bird Ship", Filing date: 1863-02-13)

More sources:

• ah! Saiz refers directly to him, in a translate-able paper: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uInQQqhHlAcJ:www.torresquevedo.org/libros/index.php/LTQ/article/download/91/111+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
• "The idea of establishing an agricultural experiment station was hatched in 1873 by Spanish businessman Don Bernardo Garcia Coteron and his partner, Don Jose Pesaña Piñol. "
• "A pilot car has been patented by Mr. Jose Pesana y Pinol, of Madrid, Spain. It has transverse partitions with buffer springs, with a water tank and (bar cc block) of lead held transversely on the car, the side bars and braces having hinges, so the car can collapse, and the springs, water tank, and lead take up the face of concussion, the car being adapted to be coupled to the front of a locomotive to lessen danger or loss from collisions."
• US title: Pilot-car, US patent 308325, Nov 18, monthly volume 1185, Dr’g 324, Official Gazette Vol 29, page 611

• Patent 308325 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
• Patent 308325 at google patents

Categories: B PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING B61 RAILWAYS B61D BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES B61D15/00 Other railway vehicles, e.g. scaffold cars; Adaptations of vehicles for use on railways B61D15/06 Buffer cars; Arrangements or construction of railway vehicles for protecting them in case of collisions

Links

• w:ca:Josep Pesaña i Pinyol