Camber

Illustration in Curso de Aviación by Gaspar Brunet y Viadera showing curvature of wings used in popular aircraft types.

Wing profile shapes, names, and geometry in Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffahrt, 1912.

Definition: Curvature of an airfoil's main flat surface

Hargrave, 1893, Flying Machine Motors and Cellular Kites compares flat and cambered airfoils using two simple kites. This wiki has 52 patents in category "Camber". Other techtypes related to Camber: CPC B64C3/38, CPC B64C3/44, CPC B64C3/46, CPC B64C3/48, CPC B64C3/50

Patents in category Camber

• Patent AT-1906-30944 (English title: Drachenflieger, Inventors: William Henry Fauber, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1906-363017, Filing date: 1906-07-16)
• Patent DE-1907-240268 (English title: Wing-form drag-surface for aircraft, Inventors: Karl Ludwig Waldemar Geest, Filing date: 1907-10-29)
• Patent DE-1907-240976 (English title: Wing-form drag-surface for aircraft, Inventors: Karl Ludwig Waldemar Geest, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1907-240268, Filing date: 1907-12-27)
• Patent AT-1908-41555 (English title: Airplane, Inventors: Gustave Whitehead • Stanley Yale Beach, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1905-881837, Filing date: 1908-03-09)
• Patent BE-1908-Bot-Lallemand (English title: Aerial navigation apparatus, Inventors: Léon Bot • Eugène Lallemand, Filing date: 1908-06-23)
• Patent GB-1908-17150 (English title: Bird-shaped Aeroplanes or Flying Machines, Inventors: José Weiss • Alexander Keith, Filing date: 1908-08-14)
• Patent GB-1908-22943 (English title: Improved fixed-wing design for aircraft, Inventors: Karl Ludwig Waldemar Geest, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1907-240268, Filing date: 1908-10-28)
• Patent DE-1909-244033 (English title: Lift-mechanism for airplanes with a large number of narrow curved airfoil surfaces arranged one on top of another, Inventors: Paul-Louis-Maurice Caron, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1908-398707, Filing date: 1909-03-08)
• Patent GB-1909-8179 (English title: Sustaining Planes for Aeroplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1908-05-09 Motorluftschiff Studiengesellschaft m.b.H, Filing date: 1909-04-05, Applicant firm: Motorluftschiff Studiengesellschaft m.b.H)
• Patent FR-1909-403412 (English title: Aerial navigation apparatus, Inventors: Léon Bot • Eugène Lallemand, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1908-Bot-Lallemand, Filing date: 1909-05-27)
• Patent GB-1909-14645 (English title: Apparatus for Aerial Navigation, Inventors: Léon Bot • Eugène Lallemand, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1908-Bot-Lallemand, Filing date: 1909-06-22)
• Patent DE-1909-245122 (English title: Drag-, steering-, and wing-surfaces for airplanes, Inventors: Paul Zens, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1909-218585, Filing date: 1909-11-25)
• Patent DE-1910-253788 (English title: Glider with hollow bodies serving to hold parts that do not generate lift, Inventors: Hugo Junkers, Filing date: 1910-01-31)
• Patent GB-1910-2611 (English title: Improvements in or relating to the construction of aeroplanes, Inventors: Horace Leonard Short • Albert Eustace Short • Hugh Oswald Short, Filing date: 1910-02-02)
• Patent NZ-1910-27491 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Kenneth McKenzie Fraser, Filing date: 1910-03-31)
• Patent GB-1910-22710 (English title: Aerial Craft, Inventors: Samuel Franklin Cody, Filing date: 1910-09-30)
• Patent US-1911-1128378 (English title: Flying-machine, Inventors: Rexford M. Smith, Filing date: 1911-03-11, Applicant firm: Connecticut Aircraft)
• Patent GB-1911-26940 (English title: Aeroplanes and Gliders, Inventors: Charles Marston • Walter John Diment, Filing date: 1911-12-01)
• Patent FR-1912-448399 (English title: Float for airplanes, hydroplanes, ricochets, gliders, and other similar apparatus, Filing date: 1912-09-17, Applicant firm: Société E. Charpentier & Cie.)
• Patent GB-1912-29072 (English title: Wings or Supporting Planes of Bird-shaped Aeroplanes and Aerial Machines, Inventors: Alexander Keith • José Weiss, Filing date: 1912-12-17, Applicant firm: The Weiss Aeroplane & Launcher Syndicate Limited)
• Patent GB-1913-9355 (English title: Hydro-aeroplane, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1912-09-25-Neufeldt-Kuhnke, Filing date: 1913-04-21, Applicant firm: Neufeldt & Kuhnke • Gesellschaft für Nautische Instrumente G.m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1913-287314 (English title: Bird-wing-style airplane airfoils with frontal thickness, Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal, Filing date: 1913-04-22)
• Patent GB-1913-21020 (English title: Floats for Flying Machines, Gliders and the like., Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1912-448399, Filing date: 1913-09-17, Applicant firm: Société E. Charpentier & Cie.)
• Patent US-1913-1092192 (English title: Wing or supporting-plane for aeroplanes and aerial machines, Inventors: José Weiss • Alexander Keith, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1912-29072, Filing date: 1913-10-28)
• Patent FR-1913-464507 (English title: Wings or sustaining planes for bird-shaped airplanes and aviation apparatus, Inventors: Alexander Keith • José Weiss, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1912-29072, Filing date: 1913-11-06, Applicant firm: The Weiss Aeroplane & Launcher Syndicate Limited)
• Patent FR-1913-465032 (English title: Deformable wing surfaces for airplanes and analaogous machines, Inventors: Paul Zens, Supplementary to patent: Patent BE-1912-11-18 Paul Zens, Filing date: 1913-11-18)
• Patent DE-1914-284669 (English title: Airplane wing, Filing date: 1914-01-27, Applicant firm: E. Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau G.m.b.H.)
• Patent US-1914-1115291 (English title: Curving rib for the supporting-surfaces of aeroplane, Inventors: Paul Carlton Elliott, Filing date: 1914-02-03)
• Patent US-1914-1119710 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Lucas Maurer, Filing date: 1914-03-11)
• Patent GB-1914-8056 (English title: Aircraft Planes or Wings, Inventors: John Percival Clark, Filing date: 1914-03-31)
• Patent AT-1914-73965 (English title: Bird wing-like wing for aircraft, Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-287314, Filing date: 1914-04-18)
• Patent FR-1914-474583 (English title: Wing for airplanes, Inventors: Gustav Lilienthal, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-287314, Filing date: 1914-04-20)
• Patent DE-1914-303772 (English title: Airplane, the airfoils of which have wing-like profiles, Filing date: 1914-10-13, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AU-1914-14892 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Filing date: 1914-11-20)
• Patent IT-1915-147274 (English title: Curvature for frame of airplane wings, Inventors: Paul Carlton Elliott, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1914-1115291, Filing date: 1915)
• Patent GB-1915-1692 (English title: Curving Rib for the Supporting-surfaces of Aeroplanes, Inventors: Paul Carlton Elliott, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1914-1115291, Filing date: 1915-02-02)
• Patent IT-1915-148612 (English title: Flying machine: monoplane with tri-curve wing, Inventors: Alessandro Vicenzoni • Giuseppe Donatini, Filing date: 1915-04-26)
• Patent GB-1915-9987 (English title: Aeroplanes and the like, Inventors: William Richard Hallett, Filing date: 1915-07-09)
• Patent US-1915-1209923 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-10-21)
• Patent CA-1915-171775 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-10-23)
• Patent GB-1915-15504 (English title: Planes of Aeroplanes, Airships and the like, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-11-03)
• Patent IT-1915-151634 (English title: Airplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-11-15)
• Patent FR-1918-488514 (English title: Airplanes, aerial vessels, and other apparatus, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-11-18)
• Patent ES-1915-61226 (English title: Airplanes and other flying machines, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent AU-1914-14892, Filing date: 1915-11-19)
• Patent US-1916-1291678 (English title: Wing construction, Inventors: Henry Kleckler, Filing date: 1916-03-31, Applicant firm: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corporation)
• Patent GB-1916-125092 (English title: Construction of Air Craft Wings, Inventors: Alliott Verdon Roe, Filing date: 1916-05-08)
• Patent DE-1917-319274 (English title: Drag-surface, Inventors: Eduard Zaparka, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1917-81354, Filing date: 1917-09-06)
• Patent US-1917-1397701 (English title: Airplane-rib construction, Inventors: John William Rapp • Joseph Vanorio, Filing date: 1917-11-19)
• Patent US-1918-1436182 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: William Arthur McCracken, Filing date: 1918-01-04)
• Patent GB-1918-128341 (English title: Improvements in and relating to the Control of Aeroplanes, Inventors: Alexander Albert Holle, Filing date: 1918-05-14)
• Patent US-1918-1589780 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Filing date: 1918-11-27)
• Patent FR-1920-521873 (English title: Airplane, Inventors: Charles Arthur Wragg, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1918-1589780, Filing date: 1920-07-10)

Publications referring to Camber

• Miller-Hauenfels, 1895, Ueber den Nutzen der Flügelkrümmung (Simple title: About the benefits of wing curvature, Journal: Zeitschr. Luftsch.)
• Krause, 1896, Der Nutzen der Flügelkrümmung (Simple title: The benefits of wing curvature, Journal: Zeitschr. Luftsch.)
• Lilienthal, 1897, The best shapes for wings (Simple title: The best shapes for wings, Journal: Aeronautical Annual)
• Zsélyi, 1909, Prinzipien der Flugtechnik (Simple title: Principles of flight technology, Journal: Wien. Luftsch. Zeit.)
• Hodgkin, 1909, More armchair aeronautics (Simple title: More armchair aeronautics, Journal: The Aero)
• Brunet y Viadera, 1910, Curso de Aviación (Simple title: Course of aviation)
• Allan, 1910, A new camber for an aerofoil (Simple title: A new camber for an aerofoil, Journal: Aero)
• Boltzmann, 1910, Ueber den Luftwiderstand gekrümmter Flächen (Simple title: About the air resistance of curved surfaces, Journal: Wien. Luftsch. Zeit.)
• Sellers, 1910, The centre of pressure on arched surfaces (Simple title: The centre of pressure on arched surfaces, Journal: Aeronautics)
• Capes, 1911, Cambering model planes (Simple title: Cambering model planes, Journal: Flight)
• Hubbard, Ledeboer, and Turner, 1911, the Aeroplane (Simple title: The Aeroplane)
• Bazillac, 1914, The aeroplane of to-morrow. Variable surface, camber, and incidence, and their effect on sustentation, speed, and safety (Simple title: The aeroplane of to-morrow. Variable surface, camber, and incidence, and their effect on sustentation, speed, and safety, Journal: Flight)

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