US1247010A - Airship turn-table. - Google Patents

Description

J. T., J. A. & R. A. RICE.

AIRSHIP TURNTABLE.

APPLICATION FILED'MAR.23. l9l7.

1,247,01 0. Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

J. T., J. A. & R. A. RICE.

AIRSHIP TURNTABLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.23. 19:1.

1,247,010. Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET -2- para eras JOEL TROUT RICE, JOEL A. RICE, AND ROYAL A. RICE, OF NEW YORK, Y.

AIRSHIP TURN-TABLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Ray, 29, 191.7;

Application filed March 23, 1917. SerialNo. 157,001.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOEL T. RICE, Jon. A. Bron, and ROYAL A. Bron, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of Bronx, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Airship Turn- Table, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an aerial turntable wherein a turntable and a car are operable to receive a dirigible or other airship and turn the same in any desired direction, and the advantages of our invention are: first, to provide means for removing an air ship from its hangar and turning it in any desired direction; second, to provide an air ship carrying car, and a track therefor, the interrelation of the two being such that the car may be propelled along the track but is restrained from leaving the track; third, to provide a turntable, and a car therefor, and

automatic means to retain the car upon the turntable when in certain predetermined positions, and to permit it to leave the'turntable, when in other positions; fourth, to provide a turntable, and a car provided with resilient means for retaining an air ship in place thereon; and fifth, to provide a turntable and a connecting track, and automatic means for locking the turntableto the track.

\Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete device, showing the rotary member in one revolved position in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing a dirigible in place thereon.

Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the car and its track in cross section.

Fig. et is a detail view showing the car detent in side elevation, and in car engaging position.

Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the car detent in side elevation, and in release position.

Fig. 6 is a detail view, showing in side elevation the spring to which the grappling cables are connected.

The turntable consists of side beams 5-5,.

which are connected b the cross ties 6 the central cross tie being aperturedto'receive the stub shaft 4. The ends of thesidebars 5 are slottedto receive the track 2 and within'the ends rollers 7 may bemounted to re duce-the friction between the track and "turntable. The turntable is also supported by the track 2 and anti-friction bearings 7- may be provided at the points of support. Arranged on the turntable is a'tra ck formed of: the lower rails 8 8: and the upper rails 8 8, arranged in pairs, the rails being preferably formed of angle iron, and each pair held in spaced relation by supports 9.

Reciprocatively mounted in each endmostcross tie 6, is a resiliently held plunger 10, the upper end of which has pivotal connection with one end of a lever 11 which is fulcrumed on a pin supported by ears 12, and the otherend 13 of which is formed'in a crotch for a purpose to be explained. A cam surface 14 is formed on a sleeper 1 for the.

purpose of contacting the lower end of the plunger 10 and raising the same, thereby lowering the end 13 of the lever.

A car, for supporting an air ship, is to be mounted on the turntable, the flanged wheels 15 of which ride between the lower rails 8 and the upper rails 8, so as to hold the car against rising from the turntable. This car may be of any suitable form and construction, the preferred form here shown, consisting of skeleton side frames 16,connected by cross rods 17. Secured to the side frames 16, are resilient air ship retaining members or anchors, which are here shown as cables 18, passing through the upper bar of each side frame 16, and each cable is provided, at its free end, with a grappling hook 19, while its other end is secured to a spring 20.

A track 21, may lead in any direction from the turntable and along it the car with its air ship may be conveyed from or to the hangar 22. The end of the track 21, adjacent the turntable, is provided with resilient latches 23-23 for the purpose of stopping the turntable with its track in alinement with the track 21. hen the turntable is in the position of track alinement, the plunger 10 is in contact With the cam 1%, thereby loW- ering the end 13 of the lever 11, and releasing the car from the turntable. When in its elevated position, the lever 11 has its crotched end 13 in engagement with the axle 24: of the car, as seen most clearly in Fig. 4, for the purpose of retaining the car in position on the turntable.

In practice, the device is used as folloWs:The turntable is swung to the position with its track alining with the track 21, the car is propelled into the hangar and the air ship placed thereon and secured thereto by the cables 18 and their grappling hooks 19, and the car returned to the turntable. The turntable may then be swung to a position most suitable for launching the air ship, the grappling hooks released, and the ship launched. When receiving an air ship, after flight, the turntable is swung to a position most convenient for landing, the air Ship received 011 the car and secured thereto, and the turntable swung to the proper posi' tion to allOW the car to be propelled into the hangar.

Having described our invention, What We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, and automatic means for locking the car on the rotary track.

2. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, and n automatically operated detent for the car.

3. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, automatic means for locking the car on the rotary track, and means to retaining the car in contact With the track.

4. In an airship turntable, a stationary track, a rotary track adapted to aline therewith in one position, a car adapted to the track, and automatic means to lock the car on the rotary track When the tracks are out of alinement.

5. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, and a cam re leased detent for the car.

6. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, an automatic de tent for the car, means for retaining the car in Contact With the track, and means for grappling an airship to the car.

7. In an airship turntable, a rotary track, a car adapted to the track, and means carried by the car for grappling an air ship thereto.

8. In an airship turntable, a support, a rotary member pivotally mounted on the support, a circular track, and track embracing ends on the rotary member.

9. In an airship turntable, a support, a

rotary track mounted on the support, a lever on the rotary track, and a cam on the support to operate the lever to lock a ear on the rotary track.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own, We have hereto atlixed our signatures in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

@opies at this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0.

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