GB365101A - Improvements in flying craft - Google Patents

Abstract

365,101. Airships. LESH, J. E., North Canton, and HOHL, J. W., Newark, both in Ohio, U.S.A. July 7, 1930, No. 20505. Convention date, July 5, 1929. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Class 4.] A rigid airship is constructed with a prow 2 shaped to direct air into two longitudinal corridors 8 extending along the length of the airship level with the axis, the rear ends of the corridors merging into convex surfaces terminating in a vertical rudder post 5. The corridors are open at the outsides and contain propellers for driving air through the corridors on to stabilizing surfaces 15 and elevators 15<1> and the rudder 16. Each propeller in the corridors rotates in the opposite direction to its next adjacent propeller. The airship is built with main and auxiliary frame rings 30, 301 supporting external longitudinal members 31. The lower segments of the frame rings intersect the car framework which comprises transverse members 21, 23, 25 and longitudinal members 50, Fig. 3. The main frame rings 30 are connected by radial members 34 to ring members 35 which are interconnected by tubes 36. A cable extends from end to end of the airship within the tubes 6. Additional framework 40, 41 is provided to support the corridors 8, which are lined with sheet metal, and radiating posts 42 support the engines and propellers. Gas cells are threaded over the tubes 36 between the main frame rings, the gas cell proper being surrounded by a fabric covering 37 which separates it from a steel network 38 which presses against the longitudinal members 31. Ballonets 29 in the lower parts of the gas cells are inflated from a fluid supply to keep the gas cells taut. Longitudinal trim may be preserved by pumping liquid between two tanks situated fore and aft of the airship. Airscrew-driven generators 19 are provided beneath the car for lighting the airship &c.