Patent US-1897-581218
"Symmetrical wave-line spindle-shaped body", shape altered based on need; mechanism for using human power called "aerial velocipede for flying"; rudder and screw can be used independently for propulsion.
Note 8-year period between request and grant.
Myers wrote on 5 Febraury 1900:
The sky-cycle, or gas-kite, is a hand and foot propelled air-ship, provided with revolving screw-sails, vibrating wings, movable aeroplanes and universal rudder—the object of the entire equipage being to test the relative advantages of all known systems for propulsion and guidance, and to attain practical experience in manipulating air craft. The operator and machinery are suspended below a peculiarly shaped gas-spindle, whose fabric has been treated by a special process, original with me, which enables it to retain hydrogen permanently during use. It has within a limited period made upwards of one hundred flights, embracing New York State, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois.[1]
References an earlier patent, granted to Carl & Carlotta Myers, aeronauts: Patent US-1885-318575, dealing with a reversible cloth screw.
Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Mohawk, NY, Herkimer county, NY (FIPSloc=36043)
Sources
- Short's DB
- PTO 244
- Patent 581218 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 581218 at google patents
| Year filed | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Year granted | 1897 |
| Office | US |
| Patent number | 581218 |
| Inventors | Carl Edgar Myers |
| Inventor country | US |
| Applicant person | |
| Applicant firm | |
| Applicant type | |
| Applicant is inventor? | Yes |
| Original title | Sky-Cycle |
| English title | Sky-Cycle |
| Tech fields | LTA, propulsion, human-powered, flapping, hybrid |
| Filing date | March 13, 1889 |
| Full specification filed date | |
| Application number | flapping |
| Grant date | April 20, 1897 |
| Granted? | Yes |
| Publication date | |
| Supplementary to patent | |
| Related to aircraft? | Yes |
| Serial number | 303178 |
| Patent agent | R. G. Dyrenforth |
| Assigned to | |
| National tech categories | USPC 244/64 |
| IPCs | IPC B64C 31/00 |
| CPCs | CPC B64C31/04 |
| Family year | 1897 |
| First filing? | No |
| Cites these patents | |
| Citations from after 1930 | |
| Application ID | 46554763 |
| INPADOC family ID | |
| Number of text pages | 5 |
| Number of diagram pages | 2 |
| Number of figures | 8 |
| Number of claims | 9 |
