Patent US-1903-769034

Large distance between car & balloons; aeroplanes that bend under pressure (and become aerocurves, which have been found to possess much greater lifting power than aeroplanes); rapid descent will trigger a sleeve on the rudder to open and act as a parachute.

• Tech class: CPC B64B1/00: Lighter-than-air aircraft
• Inventor location: London, England ("we, HOWARD DE WALDEN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Seaford House, Belgrave Square, and HANS KNUDSEN, engineer, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 29A Gillingham street, London, England")
• Inventor signed. 5 days later, this patent was recorded as filed at the patent office. - on the 29th of March
• Witnesses as shown on the final text page: William Melton Jackson and T. Selby Wardle

Sources

• Patent 769034 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
• Patent 769034 at google patents
• Short's DB
• PTO 244

Year filed	1903
Year granted	1904
Office	US
Patent number	769034
Inventors	Howard de Walden, Hans Knudsen
Inventor country	GB
Applicant person	Howard de Walden, Hans Knudsen
Applicant firm
Applicant type	INDIV
Applicant is inventor?	Yes
Original title	Aerial vessel
English title	Aerial vessel
Tech fields	LTA, parachute, aerodynamics, safety, airfoil, car, suspension, rudder
Filing date	1903/04/03
Full specification filed date
Application number
Grant date	1904/08/30
Granted?	Yes
Publication date	1904/09/20
Supplementary to patent	Patent GB-1902-24336
Related to aircraft?	1
Serial number	150967
Patent agent	James L. Norris
Assigned to
National tech categories	USPC 244/30, USPC 244/144
IPCs	IPC B64B1/00
CPCs	CPC B64B1/00
Family year
First filing?	No
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930	0
Application ID	46876398
INPADOC family ID
Number of text pages	2
Number of diagram pages	3
Number of figures	7
Number of claims	3