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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MARBY P. APPLING, OF CAMPBELL, TEXAS.
AIR-SHIP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N~o. 353,193, dated November 23, 1886.
Application filed March 2, 1886. Serial No.193,721. (No model.)To all whon, it 7;ay concern':
Be it known that I,MARBY P. APPLING, of
Campbell, in the county of Hunt and State of
Texas, have invented certain new and useful
-5 Improvements in Air-Ships; and I do hereby
declare that the following is a full, clear, and
exact description of the invention, which will
enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-
pertains to make and use the same, reference
io being had to the accompanying drawings, and
to the letters of reference marked thereon,
which form part of this specification.
My invention relates to aerial navigation,
and has for its object to provide a balloon or
15. air-ship which, by virtue of its improved con-
struction, shall be cheap to construct, easily
operated bytheassistance of manual or human
exertion, simple in construction, and not li-
able to get out of order.
20 With these objects in view my invention
consistsin the improved construction,arrange-
ment, and combination of parts, which Ishall
nowproceed to fully describe, the specific points
of novelty in which I shall particularly point
25 out in the appended claim.
In the drawings accompanying this specifi-
cation, Figure 1 is a view in front elevation
ofa balloon having my improvements attached,
one of the sails being removed to avoid con-
30 fusion of lines and expose fully the working
mechanism. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the
structure, the bag of the balloon and its sails
being removed to expose the interior of the
car or basket; and Fig. 3 is a view in side ele-
35 vation, showing the cords for suspending the
ballast-weight, the car, the rudder, one of the
wings in a raised position, and the frame for
supporting the wings above the car.
Like letters of reference mark the same parts
40 wherever they occur in the different figures of
the drawings.
Referring to the drawings by letter, A is the
body or gas-bag of the balloon, around which
are secured or interwoven cords or netting a
45 a', the former passing horizontally around the
bag, and the latter vertically and over the top
and down to and secured to the car B, whereby
said car is suspended from the bag, and the
bag strengthened against any strain having a
50 tendency to burst it. Any suitable number of
these cords may be used, having due regard to
the objects in view. Secured to the bag, atits sides, on horizontal bars c, are sails C,
sufficient in number, from three up, accord-
ing to the wishes of the operator. Thesesails 55
hang in a substantially vertical line, and are
controlled by suitable sheet-ropes operated
by the occupant of the car. Suitable stand-
ards, B', are erected on the sides of the car,
and are stiffened by backward and forward in- 60
clined braces b'. At d, about midway of the
height of these standards, are pivoted wings
D, which are normally held in their upper po-
sitions by means of springs or elastic cords E,
secured at b to the tops of the standards B'. 65
At F, on the under side of the wings, are
secured cords f f' f". The portions f extend
downward from the wing at F and around
sheaves or pulleys g, secured under the floor
of thecar. From thence the portions f' pass 70
upward, through holes of the floor of the car,
to and over sheaves or pulleys g', mounted in
bars g",which connect and stiffen the uprights
B', and thence the portions f" extend down-
ward under the center of the bag and over the 75
center of the car, and together or separate are
attached to and support a weight or weights,
G G. Aspring or springs attached to the ends
of the portions f" of the ropes and to the car
may sometimes be substituted with good re- 80
sults for the weights G G.
From each corner H of the car a cord or
rope, h, extends downward,inclining centrally
toward a ballast-weight, H', to which they are
all connected, and which they serve to sup- 85
port centrally below the basket. This weight
serves to keep the car always in its correct po-
sition-that is to say, below the bag and bal-
anced in its horizontal position. The weight
may be made greater or smaller, according as 90
it is desirable or necessary.
Projecting from therear of the car, through a
suitable slot or-opening in the stern wall there-
of, is a rudder, I, which is pivoted at i, and
has attached to its pivot a segmental rack, I', 95
whose teeth engage another segmental rack, J,
pivoted to the car-floor at J', and havinga han-
dle or lever, j, projecting forward, by means of
which the rudder may be operated. Pivoted
to the floor of the car, in front of this handle, ico
is a pawl or stop-button, by which the rudder-
handle may be held to either side, as the oc-
casion may require.
In operating my air-ship I inflate the bag
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