Patent FR-1898-280698

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Polish sources describe this inventor and the invention:

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  • Antoni Kobylański, doctor of medicine, residing in Vienna. On August 19, 1892, together with Percival Ernest Passerwer from Vienna, he patented a device for rapid measurement of air or gas in motion in France (223,788). On the basis of an application dated August 19, 1898, the French Patent Office issued him on November 28, 1898, an inventive patent no. 280,698 for a steered aircraft, known as the "Flying Yacht" (Un navire aerien dirigeable dite: Jachte Volante).
  • Structures: Kobylański "Jachte Volante" , 1898, design of a pioneering statody; Kobylański "Jachte Volante", 1898; Pioneering statodyna project. Poland / Austria-Hungary.
  • The system of the guided balloon by Antoni Kobylański. (Source: Fig. E. Niemczyk via Januszewski S. "Aviation inventions of Poles 1836-1918"). On the basis of Antoni Kobylański's application of August 19, 1898, the French Patent Office issued him on November 28, 1898, an inventive patent no. 280,698 for a steered aircraft, known as the "Flying Yacht" (Un navire aerien dirigeable dite: Jachte Volante).
  • In the patent memorial, he presented an aircraft layout that was a combination of:
  • - pressure balloons (elongated, round or oval, arched or shaped like a lobe), connected in overlapping planes, the distance of which from the gondola is regulated by a system of ropes (running through pulleys),
  • - similar balloons, similarly through the ends connected with ropes by pulleys with the gondola, referred to as gliding and performing propulsion and steering functions,
  • - passenger and engine gondola, with which the thrust devices in the form of folded blade propellers, movable wings, and the main and propeller rotor are wind driven, manually driven by gears and cranks or mechanically from the engine (all are folded),
  • - a suspended and stretched parachute under the gondola, at the ends of the canopy of which airbags are installed, helpful in the event of landing an aircraft,
  • - automatic stabilizer of the center of gravity in the form of ballast that freely moves on a rod placed under the gondola and bent into an arc, the operation of which is to restore the horizontal position of the gondola,
  • - airbags, springs or other devices acting as shock absorbers during landing, mounted under the gondola,
  • - plates hinged under the planes of lifting and soaring balloons, opening in the event of headwind, which can act as airbrakes, fans or sails.
  • It was supposed to be a completely safe device, its flight was to be controlled without loss of carrier gas, it was to be constantly ready for flight. Its dimensions could be any and it could be used - as the inventor assured - to transport goods, passengers, and also for military needs (bombing, etc.).
  • Its statodyne consists of a gas tank, nacelles, sails, airfoils, and a parachute. The carrying element consists of one, two or more gas tanks of elongated, round or oval shape, curved in the form of sails or similarly to a parachute. They are made of waterproof material and their buoyancy force balances the weights. At their ends, pulleys are mounted, through which the rope passes, bonded to the gondola on one side and loaded with an anchor on the other. Below the balloons lifting the ship up there is a complex of the so-called soaring balloons. Their ends are easily connected to the gondola by ropes through a system of pulleys. The gondola has, above the cabin housing the engine compartment and cargo or passenger compartments, a double frame, with which are connected carrier gas tanks with extensive functions as above.
  • In the machinery space there are rope pulleys, thanks to which it is possible to control the position of the lifting and gliding balloons in relation to the gondola and in relation to each other. A propeller of unconventional construction, in the form of large blades set in a rotating motion, is also connected to the nacelle. The driving devices are set in motion by means of a motor or manually. Apart from peculiar propellers, the ship is also equipped with rotational wings like propellers and with oscillating discs that rotate around the ship's axis due to the action of the wind, just like the wings of a windmill. They can also be started by an engine or manually.
  • The parachute can be mounted under the gondola and can also be used as a stabilizing factor for the arrival ship. Below the base of the nacelle, around the parachute, there are also a series of airbags, air or spring shock absorbers that soften the landing of the ship and even make it possible in the water. There is also a bar under the gondola, slightly bent in the middle of its length, along which the disc carrying the loaded rope slides. It is an automatic regulator of the constant position of the center of gravity, which allows to restore the horizontal position of the gondola damaged by the gusts of wind.

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Year filed 1898
Year granted 1898
Office FR
Patent number 280698
Inventors Antoni Kobylański
Inventor country AT, PL
Applicant person Antoni Kobylański
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Applicant type INDIV
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Original title Navire aérien dirigeable, dit: Yacht volant
English title Steerable ship called the 'Flying Yacht'
Tech fields airship, whole, LTA
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Grant date 1898-08-19
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