Patent US-1872-132022
Flapping wings connected to the operator's person, attached centrally to the upper body, but maneuverable also by means of a cord attached to the feet.
The weight of the whole machine need not exceed fifteen pounds. It is constructed inside of a semicircle, all the points touching the periphery. I describe a semicircle on the floor ten or twelve feet in diameter, and bisect this figure with a radius. The main back rod will correspond with this last line. The position of the human body in this figure should be such that when floating forward in the air the balance will be perfect. This is about one-third the length of radius from the center of the circle. Then, having hinged the rods to the waist-ring and each other, I secure the waist-ring to the floor and arrange the rods, having reference to the figure, so as to fill the area of the semicircle. I adjust their angles in such a way that when forcibly extended by the outer cord, their pressure shall mutually counteract that of each other, and not bend the main rods.
- Inventor location: Wilmington, New Castle county, DE (FIPSloc=10003, imputed by HistPat)
Sources
- Patent 132022 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 132022 at google patents
- Short's DB
- Archives of this patent are in the Air Ship Patents Collection at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
| Year filed | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Year granted | 1872 |
| Office | US |
| Patent number | 132022 |
| Inventors | Watson F. Quinby |
| Inventor country | US |
| Applicant person | Watson F. Quinby |
| Applicant firm | |
| Applicant type | INDIV |
| Applicant is inventor? | Yes |
| Original title | Improvement in flying apparatus |
| English title | Improvement in flying apparatus |
| Tech fields | flapping, human-powered, frame |
| Filing date | |
| Full specification filed date | |
| Application number | |
| Grant date | October 8, 1872 |
| Granted? | Yes |
| Publication date | |
| Supplementary to patent | |
| Related to aircraft? | Yes |
| Serial number | |
| Patent agent | Munn & Co. |
| Assigned to | |
| National tech categories | USPC 244/64 |
| IPCs | IPC B64C33/00 |
| CPCs | CPC B64C33/00 |
| Family year | |
| First filing? | No |
| Cites these patents | |
| Citations from after 1930 | |
| Application ID | 45782023 |
| INPADOC family ID | |
| Number of text pages | 2 |
| Number of diagram pages | 3 |
| Number of figures | 6 |
| Number of claims | 4 |
