Patent US-1912-1045209

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  • aeroplane designed to be stable in-itself without needing auxiliary appliances and also one in which the equilibrium can be controlled by the motion of the aviator's body as is done in skating or the like the necessity of using outrigging elevating planes, ailerons, rudders or surface warping ...
  • A further object: an aeroplane capable of being propelled by hand after the motor is stopped
  • and which can to alight perpendicularly without injury to the operator, which alighting means consists of wings capable of being operated [like] the wings of a bird. This wing mechanism is designed to enable the aeroplane to return to balance after being thrown out of balance in any direction
  • and may be changed in the contexts of varying atmospheric pressure and other conditions.
  • A further object: a simple and inexpensive
  • Tech class CPC B64C3/385: Variable incidence wings
  • Inventor location: Stockton, San Joaquin county, (FIPSloc=6077, imputed by HistPat)

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Year filed 1912
Year granted 1912
Office US
Patent number 1045209
Inventors Thomas Clifford Starr
Inventor country US
Applicant person Thomas Clifford Starr
Applicant firm
Applicant type INDIV
Applicant is inventor? 1
Original title Aeroplane
English title Aeroplane
Tech fields flapping, ornithopter, safety, stability
Filing date 1912-02-05
Full specification filed date
Application number 1912675660
Grant date 1912-11-26
Granted? 1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft? 1
Serial number 675660
Patent agent Percy S. Webster
Assigned to
National tech categories USPC 244/45R
IPCs
CPCs CPC B64C3/385
Family year 1912
First filing? 1
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930
Application ID 47549110
INPADOC family ID 43990795
Number of text pages 1
Number of diagram pages 2
Number of figures 5
Number of claims 3