US591692A

US591692A - Air-ship

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Publication number: US591692A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-10-12
Anticipated expiration: 1914-10-12

Description

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AIR SHIP (No Model.)

No. 591,692. Patented Oct. 12,1897.

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UNITED ESTATES- [PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL REED, OF EAGLE LAKE, MINNESOTA.

AIR-SHIP.

SPECIFICATIGN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 591,692, dated October 12, 1897. Application filed June 10,1896. Serial No. 595,025. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eagle Lake, in the countyof Blue Earth and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-Ships; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention has relation to air-ships, and more particularly to that class in which the ship is rendered buoyant by a gas-inflated cigar-shaped bottom, from which is suspended a similarly-shaped car provided with mechanical means operated by hand or foot power for propelling and steering the same; and the object is to produce a simple, reliable, and safe aerial ship of this kind; and to these ends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same letters and figures of reference indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved air-ship as it appears in operation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view; Fig. 3, a front end view; Fig. 4, a rear end view Fig. 5, alongitudinal vertical section of the same; Fig. 6, a longitudinal transverse section of the same.

The numeral 2 represents the cigar-shaped bottom, pointed at its front end 3 and square at its stem 4. This bottom consists of a light aluminium frame 5, over which is secured the covering 6, and from this frame are two pivoted arms 7 7, to the lower ends of which are journaled the main shaft 8 of the car 9 and from which the car is suspended. This shaft 8 is provided with two main paddlewheels A and B and two gear-wheels 10 10, which mesh with two similar gear-wheels 12 12 on the crank-shaft 13, the outer ends and central portion of which form its journal and which rotate in boxes 14, secured to the inside of the car, and it is operated by footpower applied to the pedals 15.

16 16 are integral double cranks provided with pitmen 17 ,which reciprocate and feather a paddle 18, pivoted in the side of the carbody.

inner end of a longitudinal propeller-shaft 23, the forward end of which is connected to a shaft24 by a universal joint or coupling 25. This shaft 24 is journaled in a bearingsleeve 26, pivotally mounted in the forward end of the car, and its extreme end carries a propeller 27 ,the arms 28 of which pass through slots 29 in a sleeve 30, which slides freely on said shaft and by means of which the blades of the propeller can be radially inclined with reference to the shaft 24, and the shaft itself carrying the propeller can be inclined up or down to assist the rudders in changing the course of the ship in any direction.

31 is a vertical rudder and is employed to change the course of the ship to the right or left in the usual manner. It is secured to a rudder-arm 32, mounted on a universal joint in the rear end of the car, and its forward end is connected to a tiller 33, pivoted in a universal joint 34, so that said rudder-arm can be depressed or' raised aswell as turned to the right or left by said tiller.

35 is the horizontal rudder-blade, and its arms 36 are journaled in a horizontal shaft 37 and then extend forwardly and downwardly and cross under the rudder-arm 32, so that if the handle be depressed it will elevate the forward end ,of the horizontal rudder and cause the car to ascend, and vice versa.

The body of the car may be covered or sheathed in any suitable manner, like a boat, so that the car will float on the surface of the water.

I attach particular importance to the main paddle-Wheels A and B, the blades 39 of which are mounted on shafts 37 ,journaled in the hub 38, and the said blades 39 are provided with radial arms 40, arranged at a right angle to the face of the blade. These arms strike against the inclined surface of a bracket 41 in the upper portion of their revolution,which turns the edge of the blade to and offering no resistance to the air, and as they continue around in their revolution they strike against a semicircular rail 42, which turns the face of the blade to the air and propels the machine forward, and they continue in this position during the lower half of their revolution and until they again strike the bracket 11, which again turns the blades edgewise to the air.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An aerial ship, comprising a cigar-shaped inflatable vessel, a fioatable car suspended therefrom by the pivoted arms 7 7, in combination with the horizontal transverse shaft 8, the feathering-paddles A, B, mounted on the outer ends thereof, said shaft being also provided with the spur gear-wheels 10 10 and l 9,the counter-shaft 2l,the pinion 20 mounted thereon and in mesh with the gear-wheel 19,

the bevel-gear 22, fixed on said counter-shaft, a longitudinal shaft 23 mounted in the same plane at a right angle to said counter-shaft and provided on its inner end with a bevelgear meshing with the bevel-gear 22, the propeller 27 mounted on the outer end of said longitudinal shaft, the crank-shaft 13 formed with the integral motor-cranks 15 15, and the driving-cranks 16 16, gear-Wheels 12 12 fixed on said crank-shaft and meshing with the,

gear-wheels 10 10 on the shaft 8, the lateral paddles 18, the inner ends of which are connected by pitmen 17 to the cranks 16 on the shaft 13, and the rudders 31 and 35 and means as described for simultaneously operating said rudders, substantially as shown and de-. scribed.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL REED. Witnesses:

CARL CARPENTER, MILLIE CARPENTER.