Patent GB-1904-14327

Chain loop with sails on it; as it circles around like a bicycle wheel, these aerofoils could be used for lift or propulsion or both. Anticipated for use either on a balloon airship or a flying machine of some other kind.

• Inventor locations: Both farmers, in Leon, Butler county, Kansas, although an extensive history of this area does not seem to mention them: [1], nor the wikipedia articles. Leon has ~700 people now.

Patent family descending from Patent GB-1904-14327

• Patent GB-1904-14327 (English title: Apparatus for Raising, Buoying and Propelling Air Ships)
• Patent CA-1904-89753 (English title: Propeller for air ships, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1904-14327, National tech categories: CA 244/53)

Sources

• Neilson, 1910, Aeroplane Patents, p74
• Original patent document and bibliography entry on espacenet
• on google patents

Year filed	1904
Year granted	1904
Office	GB
Patent number	14327
Inventors	Arey Van Winegarden, Gavin Monroe Crawford
Inventor country	US, US
Applicant person	Arey Van Winegarden, Gavin Monroe Crawford
Applicant firm
Applicant type	INDIV
Applicant is inventor?	1
Original title	Improvements in Apparatus for Raising, Buoying and Propelling Air Ships and other purposes
English title	Apparatus for Raising, Buoying and Propelling Air Ships
Tech fields	lift, propulsion
Filing date	1904-06-25
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Grant date	1904-08-11
Granted?	1
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Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft?	1
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Patent agent	A. M. & William Clark
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Family year	1904
First filing?	1
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Citations from after 1930	0
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Number of text pages	3
Number of diagram pages	1
Number of figures	4
Number of claims	2