Patent US-1885-318575
Lightweight balloon car with netted basket and platform on which the aeronaut may shift her weight in order to steer. Which steering is augmented by (though not entirely dependent on, as the Myerses claim below) a screw-propeller on one side and kite-rudder on the other.
In the course of our experiments in mid-air the kite-shaped rudder K (a square of cloth stretched upon four arms joined by a common pivot at S) was used to alter the inclination or direction of the car or balloon through movements on a universal joint, J, permitting any change of horizontal, vertical, or inclined plane, and although amply effective the kite-shaped rudder was in practice found unnecessary, the variations in plane of the platform A serving as a competent substitute. It also developed that the platform A alone was without other attachments competent to modify the direction of flight when the balloon arose, and especially to influence the direction of its fall, and that a spherical balloon having of itself no special inclination to fall in any other place than a vertical line could, by aid of the platform-car alone, be so influenced or diverted in calm air as to land in any desired quarter of a considerable area below. This would be entirely impracticable with an ordinary wicker car or basket, and not at all feasible with any other than a platform car possessing unstable equilibrium and elastic netting sides.
Anchor-spikes can be driven through holes around the edge of the platform.
Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Mohawk, NY, Herkimer county, NY (FIPSloc=36043)
Referenced in Patent US-1897-581218.
Sources
- Short's DB
- PTO 244
- Patent 318575 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 318575 at google patents
Year filed | 1884 |
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Year granted | 1885 |
Office | US |
Patent number | 318575 |
Inventors | Carl E. Myers, Carlotta Myers |
Inventor country | US |
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Applicant is inventor? | Yes |
Original title | Guiding Apparatus for balloons |
English title | Guiding Apparatus for balloons |
Tech fields | LTA, balloon, car, navigation, rudder, anchor, landing, propeller, safety, mooring, anchor |
Filing date | May 19, 1885 |
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Application number | navigation |
Grant date | May 19, 1885 |
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Related to aircraft? | Yes |
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National tech categories | USPC 244/62, USPC 244/30, USPC 244/110.00G, USPC 415/121.3, USPC 415/905, USPC 416/176 |
IPCs | IPC B64B1/00 |
CPCs | CPC B64B1/00, CPC Y10S415/905 |
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First filing? | Yes |
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Number of text pages | 2 |
Number of diagram pages | 1 |
Number of figures | 2 |
Number of claims | 5 |