Patent US-1867-80107

Contains descriptions of many balloon components including wings & cars (including multiple cars if size of crew requires it!) Main innovation seems to be rockets for propulsion; balloon constructed of light iron & silk; flapping wings have valves that open & close; multiple forms of propulsion, can be used together or separately. "inclined parachute" too.

• Tech class CPC B64B1/00: Lighter-than-air aircraft
• Inventor location: St. Margherita, Girgenti province, Sicily, Italy. Refers to this town: w:Santa Margherita di Belice. Girgenti was the Sicilian language name; the regular Italian name for the province is Agrigento.
• Inventor signed on Sept 14, 1867; we don't see the exact filing date at USPO but it was probably within a month of that date, even if it were mailed and there were no agent.

Sources

• Short's DB
• PTO 244
• Patent 80107 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
• Patent 80107 at google patents

Year filed	1867
Year granted	1868
Office	US
Patent number	80107
Inventors	Onofrio Abbruzo
Inventor country	IT
Applicant person	Onofrio Abbruzo
Applicant firm
Applicant type	INDIV
Applicant is inventor?	1
Original title	Improvement in aerial cars
English title	Aerial car
Tech fields	LTA, navigation, propulsion, flapping, car, rocket, balloon, hybrid
Filing date	1867-09-14
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Grant date	1868-07-21
Granted?	1
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Related to aircraft?	1
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Patent agent	None
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National tech categories	USPC 244/28, USPC 244/74
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CPCs	CPC B64B1/00
Family year	1867
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	3
Number of claims	6