The daily sentinel., 1899-05-11
ANOTHER AIR SHIP.
INVENTOR CLAIMS 1T WILL
NAVIGATE THE AIR.
Gasoline Motive Powcr-CIaimed for 1t
That 1t VIII Carry Passengers to Any
Station In the Air or Clouds-The In
vention Described.

Every once in while some ambi
tious inventor claims to have con-
quered the difficulties of aerial navi-
cation and constructed a machine that
can be made to travel through the
clouds at the will of the steersman.
Subsequent developments have always
proved that the propelling power had
existed only in the mind of the in
ventor or that a screw loose in the
complicated machinery rendered fly
ing impossible.
DR.. Robert S. Gabbey of Rossville.
Kan, declares that the secret has been
mastered by him. He has constructed
flying machine after careful study
of all the failures of others. He main
tains that he speaks advisedly when
he says that his machine has in it no
element of failure, but will fly with
out the shadow of doubt.
DR.. Gabbey describes his invention
as an airship, and says that the mo-
tive power will be gasoline. The ship is
an elongated contrivance provided
with pointed ends. Amidships is a
compartment serving as an engine
room, and Immediately forward of this
Is the passenger cabin. Both in front
and back of these compartments are
buoyant chambers. Near the forward
end of the ship is compartment
serving as pilot room, the front part
being transparent plates, through
which the pilot may see.
The vessel is constructed of wooden
hn tIxy Ia; do
secured to which are strips of rattan,
forming network over which silk or
other cloth covering is placed. Outrun,
ming from the sides of the ship, and
near the bottom thereof, and on the
same plane with each other, are six
arms, three on each side of the ship.
Held in bearings on the outer end Of
each arm is rotary shaft, extending
vertically above the arms and carry
ing propelling screw or aeroplane.
Fixed to the vertical shaft is ratchet
device which will permit the aeroplane
to turn in one direction but not in the
other.
Each propelling screw consists of
two dishshaped spirally disposed
blades, so arranged that the raised end
Of one blade will be contiguous to the
lower end of the companion blade. By
this arrangement the air is taken into
the raised end of each blade, and the
screw tends to lift itself Each blade
is formed of series of wood bars,
forked at the outer end, covered on
the top with a series of rattan bars,
and on the bottom with metallic
plate. The lower end of each shaft Is
SO connected with the arm that it has
a slight swinging motion as well as
rev wing movement, and the top part
of the shaft is connected to a brace
which is pivotally connected to the
side of the vessel The shafts are thus
capable of moving forward and back
ward, but are incapable Of moving
transversely with reference to the
sides of the vessel. When the. shafts
are inclined forward the vessel will be
driven forward and when the shafts
are inclined backward the vessel will
be driven backward. Means are pro-
vided for adjusting the shafts forward
and backward.
The engine to drive the screws will
be a compound gasoline ne, weighing
about 700 pounds, and of $50 horse
power. This power" says the in
ventor will be applied to the six
screws of my airship, a d will read
lily cause these screws to revolve at
rate of $50 to 400 revolutions per min
ute. The car complete will weigh
about 1.500 pounds, and the six screws
built in the form and size l propose,
when revolving at the rate of 800 revo-
lutions. per minute will have lifting
capacity greater than the total weight
Of the car. At 375 revolutions tney
will lift more than ton, and at 440
revolutions they will lift fully 2.700
pounds"