Patent US-1913-1061484

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Diagrams show balloons not dirigibles

  • light fabric such as silk, contained in a netting carrying the weight to be suspended
  • objective here is to use the natural spherical shape which is most efficient, not to elongate it which calls for bracing
  • avoid filling bottom portion of the gas bag, keeping it loose instead
  • outer casing in the shape of a cone covering the lower portion of the balloon and concentrating at a ring below
  • reducing need for ballast or allowing gas to escape from gasbag for raising/lowering control
  • offer facilities for cooking and heating to occupants
  • carry fuel for propulsion
  • use electricity from the atmosphere
  • incorporate wireless telegraphy
  • shape car so it would be able to travel on water for usefulness and safety
  • enable fishing from the car, or to be useful for fishing indirectly
  • anchor the airship to water
  • upper portion of gasbag is spherical, lower portion tapers
  • flexible conical casing on the lower part

Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, CA (FIPSloc=6037)

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Year filed 1910
Year granted 1913
Office US
Patent number 1061484
Inventors Thaddeus S.C. Lowe
Inventor country US
Applicant person Thaddeus S.C. Lowe
Applicant firm
Applicant type INDIV
Applicant is inventor? 1
Original title Airship
English title Airship
Tech fields LTA, balloon
Filing date 1910-04-06
Full specification filed date
Application number 1910553870
Grant date 1913-05-13
Granted? 1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft? 1
Serial number 553870
Patent agent
Assigned to
National tech categories USPC 244/118.5, USPC 244/30, USPC 244/129.2, USPC 239/14.1, USPC 239/171, USPC 244/97, USPC 43/8
IPCs IPC B64B1/00
CPCs CPC B64B1/00
Family year 1910
First filing? 1
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930
Application ID 47577037
INPADOC family ID 43925348
Number of text pages 6
Number of diagram pages
Number of figures
Number of claims 4