The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-16
Il NNC MACHINE |l!|' FLIES
It Is the Invention of Kansas
Physician.
APPLIED FOR A PATENT
1t Is an Enlongated Oval With Pointed
Ends-He Uses a Gasoline Engine.
Claims It Has SO Horse
Power.

Another flying machine has been in
vented which its owner claims VIII
actually fly. DR.. Robert S. Gabbey of
Rossvilie, Kas., is the proud origina-
tor of the machine and he has applied
for patent and submitted plans to the
ordinance bureau of the war depart
ment at Washington.
The airship Is built on an elongated
oval with pointed ends, and the car
complete will weight 1900 pounds. 1t is
designed to carry a weight of 1900
pounds, If necessary, and to propel 1t
| through the air very rapidly. DR.. GAP
hey calls his invention m air ship. In
his application for a patent he describes
it as "a vessel constructed of wooden
beams covered with rawhide. secured
| to which are strips of rattan. These
form a network over which silk or other
| cloth covering is placed
The ship contains motor or operat-
| ing devices by which the structure
may be raised, sustained and propelled
| in the air. 1t also provides that all
unoccupied space shall contain buoyant
| gas. Located approximately amidships
is a compartment serving as an engine
room, Immediately forward of which is
| passenger cabin. Both in front and
! back of these compartments are buoy
ant chambers. Near the forward end is
| a pilot room.
Running out from the sides of the
| ship and near the bottom are six arms,
three on each side, all on the same
plane. Held in step bearing on the outer
end of each arm is a rotary shaft, ex-
tending vertically above the arm and
carrying a propelling screw or aero
plane 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
dish-shaped 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 form
ed of series of wood bars, covered on
the top with a series Of rattan bars,
and on the bottom with a metallic
plate The lower end of each shaft is
so connected with the arm that it has
slight swinging motion as well as a
revolving movement, and the top part
of the shaft is Connected to a brace
which is pivotally connected with 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 is
driven backward. Means are provided
for adjusting the shafts forward and
backward.
In building this car, said Dr. Cab
hey, Il propose to use a gasoline
CINE Weighing 70 pounds, which will de-
velop $50 horse power. This power will
be applied to the six screws of my air
ship and will readily cause these screws
to revolve at the rate of $50 to 400 revo-
lutions per minute. The six screws will,
when revolving at the rate of 800 revo-
lutions per minute, have a lifting ca
pacity greater than the total weight of
the car while at 375 revolutions they
will lift more than a ton, and at 400
revolutions they will lift fully 300
pounds.
TT is desirable to ballast the car so
that it's longitude pitch may be regulat-
ed. To attain this end the under side
of the car is provided with a longtud-
inally extending passage way in which
a ballast car is located on a track pro-
Vided for that purpose. The car may be
moved by pulleys from the engine room
SO the pitch of the car may be regulat- |
ed. I provide a series of wings, hinged
at their upper edges to tie side of the
car, and having devices extend into
the body of the car and are adapted |
to be released by persons with the car
so that When the descent of the vessel |
is begun the wings may he swung out |
ward, preventing the RAPID descent Of |
the vessel and causing it to drop grad |
ually. | provide fore and aft rudders, |
connected to move in uniion and oper- |
ated from within the car Each rudder |
has four vanes, two horizontal and two |
vertical. By these the ship may be d- |
rected to ascend or descefd or move to |
the right or left. Wheels are mounted |
beneath the vessel in suitable framing
and serve to support 1t when resting
on the ground. They are useful in |
starting and lighting"
The ordinance bureau will begin at |
once testing DR.. Gabbey's machine, and /
when 1t is ready to give the complete
airship a trial the invenbr will so to |
Washington to be present 1t the test.
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