Patent US-1914-1107231
Zahm's summary:
This invention relates to flying machines and has for its object to provide such a machine with wing tips or ailerons that will be adjustable in such a manner as to exert a torque about the longitudinal axis or line of flight of the machine with or without, as may be desired, exerting a resulting torque about its vertical axis.
To these ends the invention consists in an aeroplane or flying machine provided with a number of lateral balancing planes or lateral rudders, adjustable to any desired angle with respect to each other, yet free to turn together when desired so as to receive an equal impact from the air during flight and to be in aerodynamical balance about the vertical axis of the machine, together with a device whereby they will exert either equal or unequal torques about said axis, as may be desired by the operator.
See also Zahm's subsequent aileron patents Patent US-1917-1223017 and Patent US-1919-1326010.
Source
- Patent 1107231 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
- Patent 1107231 at google patents
- Inventor location (imputed by HistPat): Washington, DC (FIPSloc=11001)
Year filed | 1910 |
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Year granted | 1914 |
Office | US |
Patent number | 1107231 |
Inventors | Albert Francis Zahm |
Inventor country | US |
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Applicant firm | |
Applicant type | INDIV |
Applicant is inventor? | Yes |
Original title | Flying-Machine |
English title | Flying-Machine |
Tech fields | airplane, aileron, navigation, stability, airfoil, rudder, piloting |
Filing date | March 21, 1910 |
Full specification filed date | |
Application number | 1910550606 |
Grant date | August 11, 1914 |
Granted? | Yes |
Publication date | |
Supplementary to patent | |
Related to aircraft? | Yes |
Serial number | 550606 |
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Assigned to | |
National tech categories | USPC 244/90R |
IPCs | |
CPCs | CPC B64C13/00 |
Family year | 1910 |
First filing? | Yes |
Cites these patents | |
Citations from after 1930 | |
Application ID | 47655431 |
INPADOC family ID | 43923581 |
Number of text pages | 3 |
Number of diagram pages | 1 |
Number of figures | 3 |
Number of claims | 11 |