Patent GB-1894-7919

A glider-like flying apparatus with a mechanism for "withdrawing the atmosphere from above a surface of resistance, mixing with the air of combusion employed for heating the boiler and forcing the mixture down below the said surface".

• Inventor location: No. 1, Lichterfeldstrasse, Berlin, Prussia, German Empire
• Inventor occupation: Counselor of the Government

Sources

• Neilson (1910), p72
• Original patent document and bibliography entry on espacenet
• Abridgment of patent specifications for 1893–1896, Class 4, p. 5; subject-matter index

Patent family descending from Patent GB-1894-7919

• Patent GB-1895-22011 (English title: Aerial Machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1894-7919 • Patent GB-1894-11941)
• Patent GB-1894-7919 (English title: Aërostation, and Apparatus employed therefor, National tech categories: GB 4 propel & steer • GB 4 aëroplanes • GB 4 without buoyant)

Year filed	1894
Year granted	1894
Office	GB
Patent number	7919
Inventors	Joseph Hofmann
Inventor country	DE
Applicant person	Joseph Hofmann
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Applicant type	INDIV
Applicant is inventor?	1
Original title	Improvements in the Art of Aërostation, and Apparatus employed therefor
English title	Aërostation, and Apparatus employed therefor
Tech fields	propulsion, ascension, jet, steam, glider, heavier-than-air
Filing date	1894-04-21
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Grant date	1894-05-25
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Patent agent	Wm. P. Thompson & Co.
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National tech categories	GB 4 propel & steer, GB 4 aëroplanes, GB 4 without buoyant
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Number of diagram pages	2
Number of figures	5
Number of claims	6