US1021496A - Flying-machine. - Google Patents

Description

M- .H. WHALEN.

FLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1911 1,021,496. 7 Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

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APPLICATION FILED D130. 30, 1911.

' 1,021,496, Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

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. Ana/mar MICHAEL H. WHALEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. i

FLYING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30. 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912. Serial No. 668.603.

To all relzmni? may concern Be it known that l..\ln'u.\m. ll. \VHALEN. a citiZen of the United States. and resident of New York. in the'county of New' York and State of Xew York. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flying-.\lachines. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to flying machines and more especially to biplanes carrying beneath them a body or frame for the operator and motors. The device is moreover equipped with side planes or ailerons as a safeguard against accidents and as a meansfor establishing equilibrium and maintaining same. and it is also provided with pontoons at its lower side in order to move on the water if it should be desired to l alight on same.

These and other objects and details of the invention will be more fully described in the following specification. set forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings,'

wherein,

Flgure 1 1s a side elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a front view of same. Fig. 5) is a sectional plan view of the device.

This device practleally provides for the ordinary biplane with a space at a central point in which is located the body which comprises a frame of'light material preferably covered with canvas or it may be of open work in order to lighten the structure and to prevent resistance. which the fabric itselfmight offer to the wind.

The divided planes which are separated by the body 5 are of the usual structure such as. commonly employed in devices of this nature. and are secured to uprights G downturned-ends 1'2 and 13 and they are provided with proper braces 14 and guy- 'wires 15, which make a solid and substantial structure. not liable to sustain damage but strong enough to fulfil the functions for which they are intended. Near the outer ends of these planes are additional uprights lb and 17 at each side of the machine and the e uprightswith uprights-t) and 7 carry at their upper ends the inclined plane 18 and a concave plane 19. the latterbe'ing located below the inclined plane.

(arried by suitable cross pieces in the frame work of the divided planes are propellers 20 and 21. making four in all which are used to drive the machine through the air while'it. bein operated for aeronautieal navigation. or the purpose of driving these propellers. two engines '22 and 23. are provided and may be so eonneeted as to work in unison or if desired. but one set of the operators seat in the middle of the body' 5.

At the rear of the body is a rudder '27 which mavbe operated by means of a wheel.-

bnt it is obvious that both of the operating wheels may be mounted on the same shaft so as to .turnindependently to direct its respectiv! deflector or rudder.

Suitably guy-wires 29 are provided at the sides of the machine and which connect the upper plane with the divided planesso as tobrace.andstrengthcn the whole device. The body 5 is mounted on wheels 30 for use. while the machine is steering-or alighting, and springs 31 are interposed in order to provide sufficient resiliency for alighting. At the outside of the wheels "and carried by cross bars 32 on the lower side of the body. are pontoons 33 consisting of cigar shaped structures of light metal made air tight and further braces by means of g'.11 v-wires 34, connecting the planes 12 and 13 withthe axle of the wheels. \Vhen it is desired therefore to alight upon water, the pontoons readily float the machine and the arrange- --ment of same is sufficient to eventually sustain the machine on the water until it is desired to ascend. when, by operating-the engines and properly turning the deflector 25,- the machine will leave the water or ground and gradually ascend.

This device is provided with more than usual floating means while in the air on acbeneath the inclined plane, a deflector, a

count of the many planes which are so eco noniieal and conveniently disposed, and the weight is wholly bel w the surface of the larger planes and partly below the smaller planes so that there is no danger of overturning. and thorough stabilityis secured by this arrangement.

This device provides for little work by the operator. it is only necessary for him to start the engine then operate the deflector and propeller, but no unnecessary work such as deflecting ot' the plaues-is required of him.

rudder, and motors for thepropellers.

In a flying machine, the combination .with a body mounted on wheels, lateral to the body, uprights carried by the lateral planes, an inclined plane at the top of the uprights, a convex plane beneath same, a dellector, a rudder, means for operating the rudder and the deflector, and engines for i driving the propellers.

It is obvious that the parts may be moditied or otherwise arranged without departing from the essential f atures above described.

'hat I claim as new and desire to secure with a body, of planes extending from the sides of the body. pro iellcrs carried by the said planes, uprights extending from the planes and body, an inclined plane at the upper end of the uprights, a convex plane 4. In a flying machine, the combination with a body extending the length of same, lateral planes on each side of the body, braces connecting the same, propellers carried by the planes. uprights carried by the body and by the planes, an inclined plane extending the length of the machine and carried by the uprights, a convex plane beneath same, motors for the propellers, a deflector, a rudder, wheels and springs for the body, cross bars beneath thebody, pontoons beneath the cross bars and guys connecting the axles of the wheels with the outer ends of the lower planes to support the pontoons.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this Qtith day of December A. D. 1911.

MICHAEL H. \VI-IALEN.

\Vitnesses lsniolnz R. Lirrrrz, JAMES F. DUIIAMEL.

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