Patent US-1910-993108
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LTA airship with propeller adjustable from vertical to horizontal action; pendulum for stability; conical propeller casing for directed airflow; patent includes relatively detailed description of operation from takeoff and opens with an unusually well-developed typology of popular contemporary aircraft types.
Control system can handle Curtiss-type, Farman-tpe, or Wright-type flaps/ailerons/secondary-aerofoils/wing-warping. Seeks to simplify and use fewer unique parts and make it easier for the operator (pilot).
Refers to itself indirectly as "lighter than air" but has every indication of being a "heaver than air vessel" latter/former mistake? (Later answer: the text refers to lighter than air craft, but not to refer to this invention.)
- 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: Hanna, Wasatch county, UT (FIPSloc=49051)
- Patent agent was also a witness.
Sources
- Patent 993108 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 993108 at google patents
| Year filed | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Year granted | 1911 |
| Office | US |
| Patent number | 993108 |
| Inventors | Thomas Rhoades |
| Inventor country | US |
| Applicant person | Thomas Rhoades |
| Applicant firm | |
| Applicant type | INDIV |
| Applicant is inventor? | 1 |
| Original title | Airship |
| English title | Airship |
| Tech fields | LTA, airplane, helicopter, hybrid, navigation, frame, car, propeller, stability, takeoff |
| Filing date | 1910-05-07 |
| Full specification filed date | |
| Application number | 1910559958 |
| Grant date | 1911-05-23 |
| Granted? | 1 |
| Publication date | |
| Supplementary to patent | |
| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
| Serial number | 559958 |
| Patent agent | Fred G. Dieterich & Co |
| Assigned to | |
| National tech categories | USPC 244/80 |
| IPCs | |
| CPCs | CPC B64C29/0033 |
| Family year | 1910 |
| First filing? | 1 |
| Cites these patents | |
| Citations from after 1930 | 0 |
| Application ID | |
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| Number of text pages | 8 |
| Number of diagram pages | 6 |
| Number of figures | 15 |
| Number of claims | 16 |
