Patent US-1880-236619

Large balloon with car & propellers; 'legs' for angling upward on takeoff; weight can be moved to tilt up or down in air.

• Inventor location: Downsend, near Bristol, county of Gloucester, England

This is inferred to be a child of a British patent by what appears to be the same fellow because this patent refers to an English ancestor granted in 1879.

Patent family descending from Patent GB-1879-2229

• Patent GB-1879-2229 (English title: Navigable balloon)
• Patent US-1880-236619 (English title: Machine for aerial navigation, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1879-2229, Filing date: 1880-03-23, National tech categories: USPC 244/127)
• Patent FR-1880-134502 (English title: Controllable aerostatic apparatus called : aero- rapid ou agile (Improvements in aerial navigation and in the mechanism or apparatus used towards this end), Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1879-2229, National tech categories: FR 6.3)

Sources

• Patent 236619 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
• Patent 236619 at google patents
• Short's DB

Year filed	1880
Year granted	1881
Office	US
Patent number	236619
Inventors	Edward Arthur Pearse
Inventor country	GB
Inventor location
Applicant person	Edward Arthur Pearse
Applicant firm
Applicant type
Applicant is inventor?	1
Original title	Machine for aerial navigation
English title	Machine for aerial navigation
Tech fields	LTA, balloon, landing, takeoff, propeller, navigation
Filing date	1880-03-23
Full specification filed date
Application number
Grant date	1881-01-11
Granted?	1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent	Patent GB-1879-2229
Related to aircraft?
Serial number
Patent agent
Assigned to
National tech categories	USPC 244/127
IPCs	IPC B64B1/00
CPCs	CPC B64B1/40
Family year	1879
First filing?	1
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930
Application ID	45962036
INPADOC family ID
Number of text pages	1
Number of diagram pages	2
Number of figures	5
Number of claims	2