Patent US-1885-315712

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LTA aircraft carries belt of explosives, uses clock timer to delay release; cf.Patent US-1863-37771 by Charles Perley

The speed and course of the wind and the distance to the enemy being ascertained, it only remains to locate the starting-point in the proper line, set the time escapement to the number of minutes or hours required for the balloon to travel that distance, then start the balloon. Dynamite and such like powerful explosives may be thus dropped upon the enemy from overhead, where he is least protected. A fort, an army, or vessels may be thus destroyed by means wholly irresistible.

Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Shelbyville, KY, Shelby county, KY (FIPSloc=21211)

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Year filed 1884
Year granted 1885
Office US
Patent number 315712
Inventors Moses L. S. Buckner
Inventor country US
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Applicant type
Applicant is inventor? Yes
Original title Aerial drop for explosives
English title Aerial drop for explosives
Tech fields LTA, bomb, military
Filing date September 17, 1884
Full specification filed date
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Grant date April 14, 1885
Granted? Yes
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Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft? Yes
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National tech categories USPC 244/136
IPCs 89/1.51
CPCs 294/82.25, CPC B64D1/16
Family year 1885
First filing? No
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Number of text pages 1
Number of diagram pages 1
Number of figures 1
Number of claims 2