Patent US-1888-376937
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Bird-shaped glider with pendulum and rudder ; a mainsail and a back sail; plate receiving air-pressure to "take any desired diagonal course as controlled by the rudder"; can be operated by an aeronaut, but: The machine may also be made and used as a toy, and as such will afford amusement to many persons.
Octave Chanute noted on this patent in Progress in Flying Machines, remarking
The writer confesses that he has tried the experiment with a small model and has failed; and so, in the hope that some of his readers may be more fortunate, he has given this account of what seems to be a remarkably simple device--if it will work.
Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Dillon, Montana Territory, Beaverhead county, MT (FIPSloc=30001)
Sources
- Short's DB; Lilienthal museum patents; PTO 244
- Referenced in Means, 1894, The problem of manflight as an improvement on Lilienthal basics
- Chanute, 1894, Progress in Flying Machines, Aeroplanes Part IX, February 1893
- Patent 376937 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 376937 at google patents
Year filed | 1887 |
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Year granted | 1888 |
Office | US |
Patent number | 376937 |
Inventors | William Beeson |
Inventor country | US |
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Applicant is inventor? | 1 |
Original title | Flying-machine |
English title | Flying-machine |
Tech fields | glider, parachute, fun, ornithopter, pendulum, stability, rudder |
Filing date | 1887-09-02 |
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Granted? | 1 |
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Related to aircraft? | 1 |
Serial number | 248588 |
Patent agent | Munn & Co. |
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National tech categories | USPC 244/16 |
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CPCs | CPC B64C31/02 |
Family year | 1888 |
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Application ID | 46203411 |
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Number of text pages | 2 |
Number of diagram pages | 2 |
Number of figures | 3 |
Number of claims | 5 |