Patent GB-1895-18773
From the provisional patent: This invention is to help captive balloons adapt to wind.
It is elsewhere called a kite balloon or Drachenballon.
The idea seems to be to create an angled aeroplane surface so that the wind gives lift to the aircraft by hitting the underside. So the end of the balloon that hits the wind first is high, and the other end is low, to make it an aerofoil. A tube accepts an inflow of wind, building up the pressure in the gas bag.
Summary by Aeronautical Journal:
The balloon is elongated, and one side is kept towards the end by having small balloons or a crescent shaped one B at the other end. The part opposed to the wind is kept inflated by making an opening x in the other end towards the wind and through which it enters. To the holding down ropes c, c1 are attached pulleys a, a1 through which pass cords b, b1 which are attached to other cords as shown.
- Inventor location: Eisenhammerstrasse 23, Augsburg, Germany
This patent does not refer to any parent but probably this invention was patented in Germany first.
Sources
- Original patent document and bibliography entry on espacenet
- Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 1., No. 2, April 1897, p. 18.
| Year filed | 1895 |
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| Year granted | 1896 |
| Office | GB |
| Patent number | 18773 |
| Inventors | August Riedinger |
| Inventor country | DE |
| Applicant person | August Riedinger |
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| Applicant type | INDIV |
| Applicant is inventor? | 1 |
| Original title | Improvements in and relating to captive balloons |
| English title | Captive balloons |
| Tech fields | LTA, balloon, captive, kite balloon |
| Filing date | 1895-10-07 |
| Full specification filed date | 1896-06-19 |
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| Grant date | 1896-08-08 |
| Granted? | 1 |
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| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
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| Patent agent | Herbert Haddan & Co. |
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| Family year | 1895 |
| First filing? | 0 |
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| Number of text pages | 2 |
| Number of diagram pages | 1 |
| Number of figures | 1 |
| Number of claims | 2 |
