Patent US-1912-1081794
Balloon design to reduce pressure on the outside layer through creation of interior compartments. Material:
In my invention I build a balloon of the ordinary two ply silk or cotton fabric and inflate the same so that it takes its final cylindrical shape for it is to be understood that my invention is peculiarly adapted for the elongated type of balloon. I thereupon take a fabric the wrap of which is composed of the strength giving strands of longitudinal steel wires alongside of which may also run parallel longitudinal threads of silk, cotton, or other fibrous material, and the weft of which is composed of threads of similar fiber. Such fabric I may water proof and make a poor conductor of heat by impregnating its insterstices with rubber and asbestos fiber, or the like. The fabric may be wove in long lengths. I now cover the balloon with a series of lengths of the fabric, each length as long as the balloon and the several lengths juxtaposed by being laid side by side, so that, when taken together they go completely around the balloon.
(Followed by more layers of fabric and wire.)
Vaniman filed this patent after an attempted Atlantic crossing, fraught with problems including lightning and damage to the balloon fabric.
The patent was granted posthumously, as he had died in 1912 at the start of his next attempt. The application was renewed, perhaps by his wife, on 7 November 1913, with a new serial number. (But, notice that Vaniman refers in some other patents to this one, by number 674009.) Yes, an example is Patent US-1912-1081792. We have been taking sporadic note of American patents making reference to one another, by serial number
- Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Atlantic county, NJ (FIPSloc=34001)
Sources
- Patent 1081794 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 1081794 at google patents
Patent family descending from Patent US-1912-1081794
- Patent US-1912-1081794 (English title: Balloon, National tech categories: USPC 244/133)
- Patent US-1912-1081792 (English title: Process of making balloons, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1912-1081794, National tech categories: USPC 244/98)
- Patent US-1912-1081793 (English title: Apparatus for Building or Covering Balloons, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1912-1081794)
| Year filed | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Year granted | 1913 |
| Office | US |
| Patent number | 1081794 |
| Inventors | Melvin Vaniman |
| Inventor country | US |
| Applicant person | Melvin Vaniman |
| Applicant firm | |
| Applicant type | INDIV |
| Applicant is inventor? | 1 |
| Original title | Balloon |
| English title | Balloon |
| Tech fields | LTA, balloon, texture |
| Filing date | 1912-01-29 |
| Full specification filed date | |
| Application number | 1913799816 |
| Grant date | 1913-12-16 |
| Granted? | 1 |
| Publication date | |
| Supplementary to patent | |
| Related to aircraft? | Yes |
| Serial number | 674009; 799816 |
| Patent agent | |
| Assigned to | International Aeronautical Construction Company |
| National tech categories | USPC 244/133 |
| IPCs | |
| CPCs | CPC Y10T152/10225, CPC B64B1/58 |
| Family year | 1912 |
| First filing? | |
| Cites these patents | |
| Citations from after 1930 | |
| Application ID | 47611955 |
| INPADOC family ID | 44056116 |
| Number of text pages | 3 |
| Number of diagram pages | 1 |
| Number of figures | 6 |
| Number of claims | 5 |
