Patent US-1910-991115

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Airplane; tube frame; system of planes shaped like box kites; adjustable by pulleys, especially for correct angle during takeoff/ascent; four wheels mounted on axles "as in the ordinary automobile construction"; motor can power wheels during takeoff; gyroscope powered by motor; propellers with two or perhaps four blades; terminology: "This invention relates to flying machines of that general type commonly known as 'aeroplanes,' wherein planes are provided to lift and sustain the machine as it is driven through the air by its propellers."

  • Tech class CPC B64C29/0033: Aircraft capable of landing or taking-off vertically, e.g. vertical take-off and landing [VTOL] aircraft having its flight directional axis horizontal when grounded the lift during taking-off being created by free or ducted propellers or by blowers the propellers being tiltable relative to the fuselage
  • Inventor location: Aurora, IL
  • Assignee: 1/2 assigned to Lietz, also of Aurora, IL
  • Inventor signed. 200 days later, this patent was recorded as filed at the patent office. -- mysteriously, the spec itself says it was signed by the inventor on 7 June 1909, on the last page. Why wasn't it "filed" from USPO's point of view until Feb 1910? example

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Year filed 1910
Year granted 1911
Office US
Patent number 991115
Inventors George S. Udstad
Inventor country US
Applicant person Charles Lietz, George S. Udstad
Applicant firm
Applicant type INDIV
Applicant is inventor? 1
Original title Flying-machine
English title Flying-machine
Tech fields airplane, frame, propeller, wheels, navigation, rudder, stability, takeoff
Filing date 1910-02-21
Full specification filed date
Application number 1910545176
Grant date 1911-05-02
Granted? 1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft? 1
Serial number 545176
Patent agent Poole & Brown
Assigned to
National tech categories USPC 244/50
IPCs
CPCs CPC B64C29/0033
Family year 1910
First filing? 1
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930 7
Application ID
INPADOC family ID
Number of text pages 4
Number of diagram pages 7
Number of figures 17
Number of claims 4