Rigid
Rigid as a keyword means 'rigid airship' — i.e. a design using an inflexible frame. The rigid airship is said to have been invented in the late nineteenth century. Joseph Spiess and David Schwarz were some early designers working along these lines. Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who began constructing Zeppelins around the turn of the century, is the best known rigid-airship maker.
The rigid airship is more expensive and difficult to build but has the advantage of maintaining its shape despite changes in atmospheric pressure and quantity of gas.[1]
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This wiki has 80 patents in category "Rigid".
Other techtypes related to Rigid: Aluminum, CPC B64B1/16, Metal, Steel
Patents in category Rigid
- Patent FR-1888-194184 (English title: Metallic dirigible airship, Inventors: J. J. Gloton)
- Patent ES-1899-24240 (English title: Flying "Aviator", Inventors: Henry Boinet, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1899-Boinet)
- Patent FR-1888-194842 (English title: Aerial steamship designed to resolve the problem of aerial navigation without balloon, Inventors: E. J. Delaurier)
- Patent GB-1889-1671 (English title: Navigable balloon, Inventors: J. J. Gloton, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1888-194184, Filing date: 1889-01-30)
- Patent GB-1889-4811 (English title: Navigable balloon, Inventors: Herman August Julius Rieckert • Albert Emil Karl Rieckert, Filing date: 1889-03-19)
- Patent CH-1891-4195 (English title: Dirigible flying machine, Inventors: Friedrich Grediger, Filing date: 1891-09-26)
- Patent US-1900-648634 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Louis-Étienne Roze, Filing date: 1892-05-31)
- Patent FR-1895-245166 (English title: Model dirigible with (propeller) blades, in aluminum, Inventors: Baronnet, Filing date: 1895-02-16)
- Patent GB-1895-25050 (English title: Automatically controlled vertical and horizontal rudders, Inventors: Edward Joel Pennington, Filing date: 1895-12-31)
- Patent GB-1896-1877 (English title: Improvements in Dirigible Balloons and Flying Machines, Inventors: Thomas Fraser, Filing date: 1896-01-27)
- Patent HU-1897-8811 (English title: Airship, Inventors: Ange Fabris • Joseph Pischiutta • Galeazzo Perotti • Louis Pasquali • Jean Battistella • Raphael Billi • Pierre Altan, Filing date: 1897-02-22)
- Patent US-1897-621195 (English title: Navigable balloon, Inventors: Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1895-98580, Filing date: 1897-12-29)
- Patent GB-1898-131 (English title: Navigable Balloons, Inventors: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1895-98580, Filing date: 1898-01-03)
- Patent FR-1899-Boinet (English title: Roze aviator, Inventors: Henry Boinet, Filing date: 1898-03-21, Applicant firm: Société Henry Boinet et compagnie)
- Patent GB-1898-22103 (English title: Aerial Machines and Anchoring Devices therefor, Inventors: Louis-Étienne Roze, Filing date: 1898-10-20)
- Patent CA-1899-64001 (English title: Balloon, Inventors: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1895-98580, Filing date: 1899-01-03)
- Patent DE-1899-112264 (English title: Rigid balloon with cross-walls, Inventors: Henry Boinet, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1899-Boinet, Filing date: 1899-05-11, Applicant firm: Luftschiffgesellschaft "Roze" • Henry Boinet & Cie.)
- Patent DK-1900-3621 (English title: Airship, Inventors: Henry Boinet, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1899-Boinet, Filing date: 1899-05-13)
- Patent CH-1900-19419 (English title: Aviator, Inventors: Henry Boinet, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1899-Boinet, Filing date: 1899-05-15)
- Patent BE-1900-151102 (English title: Dirigible aircraft with sails, mounted on a hull, Inventors: R. Ulrich, Filing date: 1900-07-18)
- Patent GB-1901-21099 (English title: Improvements in Balloons, or Apparatus for Aërial Navigation, Inventors: Augusto Severo, Filing date: 1901-10-21)
- Patent FR-1902-320901 (English title: Improvements to dirigible aerostats, Inventors: Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Filing date: 1902-05-05)
- Patent FR-1904-339126 (English title: Aircraft propelled by compressed air, Inventors: Louis-Gustave Chanudet • Yvon-Pierre Lejeal, Filing date: 1903-10-27)
- Patent FR-1905-352122 (English title: Air-Ship, Inventors: Louis-Étienne Roze, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1904-171082, Filing date: 1905-03-03)
- Patent FR-1908-393599.11222 (English title: improvements in rigid air-ships, Inventors: Ottavio Ricaldoni • Gaetano Arturo Crocco, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1908-393599, Filing date: 1908-12-06)
- Patent DE-1908-239989 (English title: Apparatus for changing the elevation of rigid balloons, Inventors: Paul Lehmann, Filing date: 1908-01-18)
- Patent FR-1908-393599 (English title: Improved rigid frame airship, Inventors: Ottavio Ricaldoni • Gaetano Arturo Crocco, Supplementary to patent: Patent IT-1907-08-24 Ottavio Ricaldoni and Gaetano Arturo Crocco, Filing date: 1908-08-22)
- Patent DE-1909-214122 (English title: Rigid balloon, Inventors: Felix Ohm, Filing date: 1908-09-19)
- Patent FR-1908-394697 (English title: Collapsible and otherwise well-elaborated airship, Inventors: Alberto Tribelhorn, Filing date: 1908-09-24)
- Patent HU-1908-45587 (English title: Steering for rigid airships stretched by pressure, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1907-202942, Filing date: 1908-10-09, Applicant firm: Motorluftschiff Studiengesellschaft m.b.H)
- Patent FR-1909-394697.10397 (English title: Collapsible and otherwise well-elaborated airship, Inventors: Alberto Tribelhorn, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1908-394697, Filing date: 1909-01-27)
- Patent DE-1911-239628 (English title: Motor-airship, Inventors: August Krumholz, Filing date: 1909-05-08)
- Patent FR-1909-403477 (English title: rigid balloon, Inventors: Johann Schütte, Filing date: 1909-05-29)
- Patent HU-1909-48106 (English title: Rigid system airship, Inventors: Johann Schütte, Filing date: 1909-05-29)
- Patent FR-1909-403714 (English title: improvements brought to air-ships, particularly to dirigibles, Inventors: Almerico da Schio, Filing date: 1909-06-05)
- Patent CH-1909-50001 (English title: Rigid, disassemblable Airship, Inventors: Adrian Baumann, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1908-221155, Filing date: 1909-09-10)
- Patent FR-1910-407385 (English title: dirigible, rigid, able to be disassembled, Inventors: Adrien Baumann, Filing date: 1909-09-27)
- Patent IT 1909-105179 (English title: Disassemblable, rigid dirigible balloon, Inventors: Adrian Baumann, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1910-221155, Filing date: 1909-09-30)
- Patent DE-1911-240708 (English title: Airship body with ring-shaped discrete gas containers, Inventors: Gustav Düsterloh, Filing date: 1910-01-11)
- Patent GB-1910-2302 (English title: Air-ships with Aerostats, Inventors: Paul Lehmann, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1908-239989, Filing date: 1910-01-29)
- Patent FR-1910-412044 (English title: Air-Ship, Inventors: Paul Lehmann, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1908-239989, Filing date: 1910-01-29)
- Patent GB-1910-2479 (English title: Airship, Inventors: Richard Wilcke • Albert Graff, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-Wilcke-Graff, Filing date: 1910-02-01)
- Patent FR-1910-412516 (English title: Rigid balloon, Inventors: Julius Frankfurter, Filing date: 1910-02-11)
- Patent AT-1911-48428 (English title: Airship, Inventors: Adrian Baumann, Filing date: 1910-03-21)
- Patent GB-1910-14688 (English title: Airship, Inventors: Adam Roenne, Filing date: 1910-06-17)
- Patent CH-1910-54259 (English title: Rigid, disassemblable airship, Inventors: Adrian Baumann, Supplementary to patent: Patent CH-1909-50001, Filing date: 1910-07-15)
- Patent AT-1911-53464 (English title: Disassemblable airship with multiple rigid gas cells, Inventors: Adrian Baumann, Filing date: 1910-07-16)
- Patent DE-1910-309935 (English title: Rigid airship with keel used as Laufgang, Filing date: 1910-09-03, Applicant firm: Luftschiffsantrieb G. m. b. H.)
- Patent FR-1911-420626 (English title: Single construction for aerostats of the rigid type, with a central interior propeller, with free air venting, and the extremity in which (propeller) having a part which is moveable and controllable in all senses, Inventors: Johann Peter Nowotnick, Filing date: 1910-09-21)
- Patent BE-1910-229043 (English title: Dirigible of the rigid type, Inventors: Johann Peter Nowotnick, Filing date: 1910-09-22)
- Patent GB-1911-12962 (English title: Air-ships, Inventors: Michael Albert Klauck • John Cornelius Bell, Filing date: 1911-05-30)
- Patent FR-1912-449889 (English title: Rigid air-ship with basket suspension by way of fabric panels, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1911-10-28 Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH, Filing date: 1912-10-26, Applicant firm: Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH)
- Patent DE-1913-279525 (English title: Rigid airship with subdivided outer hull, Filing date: 1913-02-22, Applicant firm: Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH)
- Patent FR-1913-467266 (English title: Rigid dirigible balloon, Inventors: Pierre-André Vignat • Pierre-Marie-François Vialard-Goudou, Filing date: 1913-03-25)
- Patent FR-1913-467415 (English title: armature system for rigid dirigibles, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Filing date: 1913-03-28)
- Patent GB-1913-7927 (English title: Improved Form of Construction for Rigid Type Dirigible Balloons or Airships, Inventors: Stanley William Hiscocks, Filing date: 1913-04-04)
- Patent FR-1913-467415.18791 (English title: armature system for rigid dirigibles, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-467415, Filing date: 1913-04-14)
- Patent FR-1913-472867 (English title: Rigid dirigible, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Filing date: 1913-08-21)
- Patent BE-1914-265507 (English title: armature system for rigid dirigibles, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-467415, Filing date: 1914-03-09)
- Patent BE-1914-266055 (English title: Gas holder for dirigible, flexible and rigid balloons, Inventors: Georges Juchmès, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-456298, Filing date: 1914-03-25)
- Patent BE-1914-265507.266183 (English title: Armature system for rigid dirigibles, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1914-265507 • Patent FR-1913-467415 • Patent FR-1913-467415.18791, Filing date: 1914-03-30)
- Patent AT-1914-82367 (English title: Access stairs to the upper platform of rigid steering airships, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-438580.17636 • Patent FR-1911-438580, Filing date: 1914-04-07)
- Patent FR-1914-472867.19895 (English title: Rigid dirigible, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-472867, Filing date: 1914-05-01)
- Patent FR-1914-476670 (English title: Improved system of rigid dirigible, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Filing date: 1914-05-01)
- Patent GB-1914-13944 (English title: Rigid Airships with Separate Cells or Compartments for the Gas, Filing date: 1914-06-09, Applicant firm: Siemens-Schuckert-Werke G.m.b.H.)
- Patent BE-1914-269151 (English title: Rigid dirigible, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1913-472867, Filing date: 1914-07-11)
- Patent US-1914-1265302 (English title: Dirigible of the rigid type, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1914-472867.19895 • Patent FR-1913-472867, Filing date: 1914-08-14)
- Patent FR-1914-476167 (English title: Dirigible with rigid shell adhering to envelope, Inventors: Enrico Forlanini, Filing date: 1914-09-11)
- Patent GB-1915-6608 (English title: Improvements in or relating to Dirigible Airships, Inventors: Adolphe Clément-Bayard, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1914-476670, Filing date: 1915-05-03)
- Patent FR-1915-478617 (English title: unwarpable spindle-shaped balloon, Inventors: Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Filing date: 1915-05-06)
- Patent DE-1916-303968 (English title: Gas discharge in rigid airships, Filing date: 1916-01-17, Applicant firm: Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz)
- Patent DE-1916-304443 (English title: Shell for transferring the force of gas pressure in compartments to the framework of rigid airships, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Filing date: 1916-03-30)
- Patent DE-1916-311278 (English title: Hulls for rigid airships, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Filing date: 1916-07-13)
- Patent FR-1916-484625 (English title: Rigid Dirigible, Inventors: Émile-Alphonse Renard, Filing date: 1916-07-15)
- Patent HU-1917-75734 (English title: Gas drainage from rigid airships, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1916-01-17 Luftfahrzeugbau Schütte-Lanz, Filing date: 1917-01-13, Applicant firm: Luftfahrzeugbau Schütte-Lanz)
- Patent AT-1917-79189 (English title: Transverse bulkhead for rigid airships with gas cells, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Filing date: 1917-02-09)
- Patent AT-1917-79192 (English title: Cover for the transmission of gas pressure to the framework of rigid airships, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1916-03-29, Filing date: 1917-03-24)
- Patent HU-1917-81328 (English title: Envelope that transfer gas pressure to the vase of rigid airships, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1916-05-29 Reinhold Richter, Filing date: 1917-03-24)
- Patent AT-1917-78792 (English title: Outer shell for rigid airships, Inventors: Reinhold Richter, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1916-311278, Filing date: 1917-07-18)
- Patent HU-1917-76960 (English title: Composite support of individual pieces for rigid airships, Filing date: 1917-09-20, Applicant firm: Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz)
Publications referring to Rigid
- Hoernes, 1900, Das Zeppelin'sche Ballonproblem (Simple title: The Zeppelin balloon problem, Journal: Die Zeit)
- Publication 3081, 1909, The construction of the Zeppelin airship (Simple title: The construction of the Zeppelin airship, Journal: Scient. Amer.)
- Meixner, 1909, At the Frankfort Exposition (Simple title: At the Frankfort Exposition, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Scientific American, 1909, A novel aerial railway (Simple title: A novel aerial railway, Journal: Scientific American)
- Lönholdt, 1912, Betrachtungen über Fahrten und Havarien der Zeppelin-Luftkreuzer. Nebst Vorschlägen zum Bau und Betrieb von Motorluftschiffen starren Systems (Simple title: Considerations about journeys and accidents of the Zeppelin air cruisers. In addition to proposals for the construction and operation of motor airships rigid systems, Journal: Öst. Flug-Zeit.)
- Besançon, 1915, Les "Zeppelins" (Simple title: Les "Zeppelins")
- Vissering, 1922, Zeppelin (Simple title: Zeppelin)
- Hartcup, 1974 (Simple title: The achievement of the airship)
- Brooks, 1992, Zeppelin (Simple title: Zeppelin)
References
- ↑ Berget, 1909, Conquest of the Air, p. 29:
The external form is invariable, thanks to the material of the envelope and the framework on which it is stretched.
We see at a glance what colossal difficulties such an arrangement presents, the difficulty of constructing a trellised cylinder 120 metres long and 11 metres wide to say nothing of its expense; the difficulty of fixing the external envelope, and finally, the complication of inflating the elementary balloons contained in each of the compartments. Experience has shown the difficulty of managing such masses both at starting and landing: we shall return to this question later on. In any case it is difficult, and also very perlious, to give the body of an airship a rigid substructure.