Improved Propeller Apparatus, applicable for Propelling and Manoeuvring Flying Machines, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels, for Ventilating, Pumping, and Swimming, and as an Umbrella.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left. 20th Sept., 1895--Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Propeller Apparatus, applicable for Propelling and
Manoeuvring Flying Machines, Boats, Barges, and other
Vessels, for Ventilating, Pumping, and Swimming, and as an
Umbrella.
RICHARD COX GOUGH Cave Explorator Lion Rock House Cheddar, Somerset
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:
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A contracting and expanding propeller, for lifting and steering flying machines,
for propelling boats, barges, yachts and other vessels and steering, for ventilating
mines, ships, rooms, passages and wells, for pumping and swimming, and as an
umbrella.
The propeller to be composed of various materials, of various sizes and shapes
according to its adaptability or use employed.
The propeller will be constructed on the same principle
the catches that keep it open or shut.
as an umbrella without
The propeller is fixed on a shaft, and will plunge backwards and forwards as a
piston, when it is pushed forwards, it will open, and when drawn backwards, it will
contract. The propeller to. be worked by the hands or feet, by steam, electricity
or other power.
March 7th 1803
RICHARD COX GOUGH.
Improved Propeller Apparatus, applicable for Propelling and
Manoeuvring Flying Machines, Boats, Barges, and other
Vessels, for Ventilating, Pumping, and Swimming, and as an
Umbrella.
RICHARD Cox GOUGH Cave Explorator Lion Rock House Cheddar Somerset,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
:
A contracting and expanding propeller, for lifting and steering flying machines
for propelling boats barges and yachts and other vessels and steering, for ventilating
mines, ships, rooms, passages and wells, for pumping and swimming, and as an
umbrella. The propeller to be compose: of various materials, of various sizes and
shapes, according to its adaptability or use employed.. The propeller will be
constructed on the same principle as an umbrella, without the catches that keeps it
open or shut, fixed on a shaft, and will plunge backwards and forwards as a
piston, when it is pushed forward, it will expand, and when drawn backwards it
contract. The propeller to be worked by hands, feet, by steam or electricity or
other power. The novelty is in the propeller and its application.
My invention consists of a propeller made up of shalt G K, which may be of
wood, cane, metal or other suitable material, to which ribs R. of metal or other

page_text: material are attached by a stationary collar F C fixed to shaft G K. The ribs R.
are covered, the covering C. being of suitable material, such as canvas, leather or
metal, and they are operated upon or caused to open and shut by stays S, of metal
or other material, attached to a sliding collar or ring T C. surrounding the
shaft G K. The inner ends of ribs R, are attached by a hinge to the stationary
collar F C. and the outer ends of ribs R, have an eyelet-hole W. to which the
covering C, is attached to the ribs R, and the stays S, are hinged at the inner end
to the sliding collar T C, and at the outer end to ribs R, at a point C C, thus
joining the sliding collar T C. to the ribs R.
In order to work the propeller, the shaft is plunged forward in the water or air,
in the direction of from G to K. which causes it to open or expand, and the reverse
action causes it to close or shut up.
In section Fig. 2 of the drawings enclosed with this my Complete Specification
there should be 8 ribs and 8 stays, only four of each are shown in section Fig. 2.
My propellers are all constructed on the same principle as the drawings submitted,
for all the various applications mentioned. The propeller section Fig. 2 is shown
to be partly open, when C C reaches X, it is fully expanded, then T C touches FC,
when closed or shut up, collar T C reaches B. When metal is used as a covering
to the propeller, the covering C would be attached to the ribs R. by hinges, and
the covering between each rib, would also have hinges, to enable it to open and
close freely.
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My propellers being worked rapidly on a "flying machine" would compress and
displace the air and manoeuvre the flying machine by those means.
For "
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ventilating by working propeller quickly backwards and forwards, a
current of air would be produced, and so ventilate by those means.
"Swimming" "pumping" and "propelling" would be effected, by plunging
propeller in the water with force, a resistance is obtained, a fulcrum or purchase
got by the displacement of the water.
As an "umbrella," the propeller when held overhead when open, would have a
tube thro' the shaft or stick, for rain water to pass through, there would be holes
in shaft at collar F. C. for water to enter the tube, so to prevent droppings. It
would appear like an umbrella inverted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
laini iş,
That the whole of the apparatus here described and illustrated, is my invention,
and that I require a Patent for the same, for which I shall ever feel grateful.
January 31st. 1896
RICHARD COX GOUGH,
Cheddar.