Gustave Plaisant
Gustave Plaisant was a French aero inventor. On a patent he described himself as having the occupation of Engineer, and of living at 43 rue Lafitte, Paris.[1]
Based on our patent data, one focus of the inventor was the flexibility of both wheels and propellers. His patent families went in and out of the applicability of this work specifically to airplanes. Factors pertinent to wings, the flexibility thereof, considered from a few angles, is also key. His “feathers”, or “plumes”, seem to have emphasized the mere pliability of surfaces, with flexibility achieved thereby[2][3]. Wheels as elements included within the ends of propellers seem to have offered another aspect of controlled resistance, and the effects of flexibility, via other means[4][5][6]. Patent FR-1911-404954.14494 in particular treats elegantly these “roues à démi-masquées”. Most of this work is inter-connected, and we are resolving three patent family complexes.
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Gustave Plaisant
- Patent FR-1909-403985 (English title: device for aviation, Filing date: 1909-06-12)
- Patent FR-1909-403985.11168 (English title: Airplane, taking the principles of the parent patent and applying them to marine as well as to hydroplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985, Filing date: 1909-06-26)
- Patent FR-1909-404484 (English title: (Title and original missing from Espacenet), Filing date: 1909-06-26)
- Patent FR-1909-404954 (English title: Flexible wheel and its applications, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985 • Patent FR-1909-404484, Filing date: 1909-07-10)
- Patent GB-1910-1017 (English title: Improvements in aerial machines to diminish the atmospheric resistance to motion, Filing date: 1909-11-09)
- Patent GB-1909-25873 (English title: Improvements in the Construction of Wings and Planes and their Application of Aerial Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985, Filing date: 1909-11-09)
- Patent RU-1909-21761 (English title: Stabilizing apparatus for airplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985 • Patent FR-1909-404954, Filing date: 1909-11-12)
- Patent FR-1910-404954.12058 (English title: Flexible wheel and its applications (to propellers as well), Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-404954, Filing date: 1910-01-12)
- Patent AT-1910-63245 (English title: Airplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985, Filing date: 1910-05-31)
- Patent HU-1910-56484 (English title: Repairs on airplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985 • Patent FR-1909-404954, Filing date: 1910-06-10)
- Patent HU-1910-56510 (English title: Flexible structural element for aircraft, watercraft and ground vehicle surfaces, propellers, wheels and the like, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-403985, Filing date: 1910-07-10)
- Patent FR-1911-404954.14494 (English title: Flexible wheel (or propeller) and its applications, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1909-404954, Filing date: 1911-06-29)
- Patent FR-1912-451591.17802 (English title: improvements in machines moving on fluids by organs animated from circular movements, Filing date: 1912-12-07)
- Patent FR-1912-451591 (English title: Improvements in machines acting on fluids by apparati animating from cyclical movements, Filing date: 1912-12-07)
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| Names | Gustave Plaisant |
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| Countries | FR, HU, AT, GB |
| Locations | 43 rue Lafitte, Paris, France |
| Occupations | Engineer |
| Tech areas | Wheels, Frame, Construction, Design, Wings, Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics, Lift, Propellers, Airplane, Flexibility |
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