Joseph E. Smith

Rotary kite

Patent number: 2768803
Filing date: Apr 28, 1953
Issue date: Oct 1956

 

 

The linear actuators control the parachute's angle of attach and gliding ratio and gliding direction. This is a kite system heavily using the term "parachute" as main focus is the letting down of payloads by fall arresting via a wing conventionally termed parachute; the effective kiting via the instructed control method permits piloting the net gliding kite to prescribed destinations.  In focus is a type of hung-mass glider or hang glider or free-gliding kite system with mooring free to fall and move. In focus is a changing of the angle of attack by means of shifting the position of the weight of the payload via change of lengths of the tethers or kitelines involved. This functionality is used in paragliding and kite flying. Here the linear actuators are interesting.  The text erroneously declares "non-gliding parachute" when the whole patent focus is on using aerdynamic gliding mechanics to alter the trajectory; so, the net system is a gliding parachute; and because of the tethers and the payload moving mooring, the device and system is a kite system.

Parachute trajectory control

Glen J. Brown

Patent number: US Pat. 6131856
Filed: Jun 4, 1998
Issued: Oct 17, 2000

 
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 Want to soften the impact?  Climb the lines quickly!  Or shorten the lines quickly.  

 The extreme of this is the getting up into the air by climbing the hang line of a skyhook of some description.

Fly a kite; have a drop line from the upper kite tether. Climb up the drop line; if one can climb the line faster than the hang point's approach to the earth, then one gets up into the air. Consider some extremes on this matter for some interesting athletic events.

 

Kiting is involved here.

Patent number: 2418702
Filing date: Mar 9, 1943
Issue date: Apr 1947

Underwater kite

by Ferdinand Gordon Morrill

US Patent number: 2414480
Filed: Feb 7, 1945
Issued: Jan 1947

Peter J. Pearce and Toby J. Cowan

Concave parabolic arch kite

Patent number: 4018408
Filed: Jul 15, 1975
Issued: Apr 19, 1977

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Collapsible flying structures

 Yu Zheng

Patent number: 6273368
Filing date: Apr 3, 2000
Issue date: Aug 14, 2001

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PAT. NO.		Title
1	7,866,271		Placement system for a flying kite-type wind-attacked element in a wind-powered watercraft
2	7,810,759		Tube kite
3	7,798,083		Positioning device for a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element in a wind-powered watercraft
4	7,686,254		Force balancing kite control system
5	7,672,761		Watercraft comprising a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element as a wind-powered drive unit
6	7,621,485		Trim line kite control system
7	7,621,484		Rotor kite
8	7,607,615		Brake for a kite
9	7,581,701		Kite control device
10	7,552,888		Kite reel
11	7,546,813		Positioning device for a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element in a wind-powered watercraft
12	7,533,851		Flexible kite
13	7,504,741		Wind energy plant with a steerable kite
14	7,487,969		Kite system having a light transmitter and a light receiver
15	7,458,181		Waterfowl decoy kite
16	7,413,146		Control apparatus for kite powered conveyance device
17	7,374,129		Device for launching a power kite
18	D561,567		Kite reel
19	7,325,773		Kite winch and method for pulling-in a kite
20	7,290,731		Kite line reel with first and second cammed brake feature
21	7,204,459		Kite
22	D538,631		Kite reel
23	7,182,294		Kite surfing bar
24	D533,771		Kite reel
25	D531,251		Inflatable towable kite
26	7,127,781		Release device for a kite
27	7,119,665		Sound generator for a kite
28	D529,570		Inflatable towable water kite
29	D527,784		Inflatable towable kite
30	D526,379		Inflatable towable water kite
31	7,048,232		Plottner rotor kite
32	7,036,771		Kite safety, control, and rapid depowering apparatus
33	7,017,860		Control and fixing device for the sail of a kite
34	7,017,859		Method of making a miniature, operable box kite
35	7,014,149		Traction kite design
36	D513,281		Kite
37	D511,797		Kite
38	6,962,309		Kite slider
39	6,955,325		Delta kite with flight stabilizing, air-passing ring structure
40	D510,110		Kite
41	D509,260		Pirate ship kite
42	6,918,346		Marine craft towed by a kite-type canopy
43	D507,308		Kite
44	6,910,434		Control device for steering kite on a boat
45	D506,513		Kite
46	D506,229		Airplane kite
47	6,905,096		Kite with planar aerodynamic surface
48	6,896,225		Kite with movable figure
49	6,877,697		Kite control systems
50	D503,753		Dragon boat kite

PAT. NO.		Title
51	6,869,047		Kite safety device
52	6,866,229		Kite with durable light display feature
53	D502,745		Kite
54	6,854,690		Aircraft kite
55	D500,815		Kite
56	6,830,220		Kite control bar with ninety-degree handles and fail-safe release system
57	6,781,254		Windmill kite
58	D494,639		Dragon kite
59	D492,970		Bomber kite
60	D492,969		Parrot kite
61	6,748,890		Device and method for carrying and tethering a power kite
62	6,745,713		Control device for kite
63	6,722,613		Kite having flapping wings
64	D488,514		Amazing kite
65	6,695,258		Kite device
66	6,691,954		Integrated kite control bar and controlled tension release safety device
67	6,682,018		Releasable control yoke anchor system for kite
68	6,676,086		Tandem kite device
69	6,676,085		Kite
70	D483,814		Kite
71	D483,813		Kite
72	6,663,050		Aircraft kite
73	D483,422		Kite
74	D483,421		Kite
75	6,659,031		Bridle for power kite launching
76	D482,409		Nighthawk kite
77	D482,408		Soaring bird kite
78	D482,076		Eagle kite
79	D481,764		Two-dimensional versatile kite
80	6,612,254		Towable underwater kite
81	6,598,833		Aircraft kite
82	6,598,832		Kite assembly
83	6,595,468		Kite device
84	6,588,706		Launchable paper kite
85	6,581,879		Kite control systems
86	6,578,797		Kite altitude measuring apparatus
87	D475,610		Kite spool
88	6,575,409		Fluoroluminescent lighted kite
89	6,527,607		Luminescent kite apparatus
90	6,517,474		Method for making a miniature kite
91	6,514,115		Line system for steering a kite
92	6,502,789		Flexible kite
93	6,499,695		Balloon kite
94	6,494,764		Kite having noise emitting device
95

 

AWECS Patents: Wind responsive power generation system  US Pat. 7861973 granted on January 4, 2011.    Filed: March 25, 2009   Aerial wind power generation system  Application number: 11/164,512 Publication number: US 2007/0120005 A1 Filed: Nov 28, 2005   Aerial wind power generation system and method US Pat. 7188808 - Filed Feb 27, 2006   Aerial wind power generation system  Application number: 11/621,342 Publication number: US 2007/0120004 A1 Filed: Jan 9, 2007   Wind drive apparatus for an aerial wind power generation system US Pat. 7275719 - Filed Feb 9, 2007   Launch and recovery system for tethered airborne elements    US Patent  7775483    Filed Dec. 3, 2008.

System for performing the automatic control of the flight of kites

Application number: 12/518,577
Publication number: US 2010/0019091 A1
Filing date: Nov 30, 2007 

Mario Milanese
Andrea Millanes
Carol Novara

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Marine craft towed by a kite-type canopy

 Maurice Grenier

Application number: 10/472,891
Publication number: US 2004/0099196 A1
Filing date: Sep 25, 2003
Issued patent: 6918346 (Issue date Jul 19, 2005)

Kit of parts and a method for converting
between a glider and a kite

 Jung-Yuan Wang

Application number: 10/462,777
Publication number: US 2004/0075028 A1
Filing date: Jun 17, 2003

Many drawings and full instruction, click image:

Stunt kite dihedral wing
Robert Crowell

Patent number: 4815681
Filing date: Dec 7, 1987
Issue date: Mar 28, 1989 

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Control and fixing device for the sail of a kite

Arielle Royannais
Arnaud Ballu

 

Patent number

: 7017860
Filing date: Jun 3, 2003
Issue date: Mar 28, 2006
Application number: 10/505,763

  

Flying kite and control

Harvey K. Hole

Patent number: 2472075
Filing date: Dec 12, 1946
Issue date: Jun 1949

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Kite control
Raymond John Zobl III

Patent number: 3317165
Filing date: Jul 9, 1965
Issue date: May 1967

Consider other uses.

Patent number: 3980259
Filing date: Apr 2, 1975
Issue date: Sep 14, 1976

Richard David Greenhalgh
Ronald Alexander Saunders
George Reginald Seyfang

Spelling in text:  para-foil

Discussion for using the described methods in various situations is invited.

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(11)Publication number :	11-004972
	(43)Date of publication of application :	12.01.1999

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(51)Int.Cl.

A63H 27/08

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(21)Application number :	09-172752	(71)Applicant :	NISHIMOTO SHOHEI
(22)Date of filing :	16.06.1997	(72)Inventor :	NISHIMOTO SHOHEI

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(54) KITE MADE OF COUPLED TUBES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME

(57)Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give dimensionality to a kite itself by simplifying and making easy of controlling the way of attaching bridle legs as drawing lines to balance the whole kite and to make the structure of the kite cheap and simple. SOLUTION: A kite made of coupled tubes is formed by stitching kite- structuring members 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E. These kite-structuring members 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E are adjoined each other and sewed up the plural side faces of the same to form a hog-backed shape to make up a kite main body 1, which is having the each 1/3 periphery of the kite structuring members 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E as the lower part and the 2/3 of the same as the upper part. Either one or the other side of the 2/3 of the opening of the kite- structuring members 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E, which are composing this kite main body 1, are partly sewed up to remain opened and to form ventilators. Hemming parts 3 are set in both the outer most kite-structuring members 1A and 1E to make their peripheries become the lower part. Each one end of front bridle legs 4 matched to the same length are fixed to the left and right side of the kite main body 1, together with the other ends, these front bridle legs 4 are connected to a flying line 5.

Rainer Mugrauer

Discuss potential tasks, applications, uses for projecting images and messages to the surfaces of AWECS or kites.

 

Kite

Arthur W. Cash
Patent number: 1452956
Filing date: Sep 19, 1922
Issue date: Apr 24, 1923

He assigned the rights of the patent to Harvey A. Sellers of Decatur, Illinois, founder of the Hi-Flier Mfg. Co.

Kites rise, with a bit of history, at Progress City 

Everything I Know About the Hi-Flier Kite Company 

 

 

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Patent number: 4159087
Filing date: Oct 31, 1977
Issue date: Jun 26, 1979

Cited:  (Filing dates are earlier; the approved dates are shown)

886159	Aerial Apparatus by Matthew B. Sellers	Apr 1908
1261731		Apr 1918
1267135		May 1918
1849133		Mar 1932
1927835		Sep 1933
2673694		Mar 1954
2869801		Jan 1959
3140842		Jul 1964
3153877		Nov 1964
3204368		Sep 1965
3276730		Oct 1966
3305198	)	Feb 1967
3949519	Toy glider	Apr 13, 1976
3954235	Kites	May 4, 1976

Charles H. Cleveland

Tailless kite

Patent number: 3276730
Filing date: Jul 23, 1964
Issue date: Oct 1966

Compare with Wanner, Rogallo, and others. What is novel here?

This patent fully about a kite that is controlled by ground operator, manages to avoid using the word "kite" while preferring to use the word "aeroplane"  for reasons to be explored.

Toy Aeroplane by Edward Sprague, Jr.,
of Oak Prk, Illinois, USA

 Patent number: 1267135
Filing date: Jun 19, 1916
Issue date: May 1918

 

Discuss comparisons with other two-line control kites.
Discuss comparison with Paul Garber's target kite.
Discuss the glider potetial during slack-tether operations.

Click image for full instructions.

 

Kite
by Frank L. Roe
of Evanston, Illinois

Patent number: 2811327
Filing date: Dec 1, 1954
Issue date: Oct 1957

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Kite and kite package
by Joseph Carnoff of  Flushing, New York, USA

Patent number: 2783958
Filing date: Jul 21, 1955
Issue date: Mar 1957

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Kite
by Gorman L. Bedford
of Kutztown, PA, USA.
Patent number: 2788945
Filing date: Jan 11, 1954
Issue date: Apr 1957

 

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruciton.

Kite
by Alton W. Hutson
of Richmond, California, USA
Patent number: 2804276
Filing date: Jun 23, 1955
Issue date: Aug 1957

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[ ]  Is this referenced ever later by Jalbert, Rogallo, Barish, or Culp?   If not, why not?   Distinguish claims. Examine any overlap.

Kite Accessory
by George T. Lee
of Parrott, Georgia, USA

Patent number: 2820603
Filing date: Jun 10, 1953
Issue date: Jan 21, 1958

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

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AWECS sometimes will use expansion-contraction to effect system operations or practical works.
George T. Lee instructs a method of releasing a lifted mass. Indeed, one of the branches of AWE
is to convert wind's energy by a kite system to effect the lifting of masses for follow-on release
of the lifted mass to satisfy some practical purpose and perhaps save operators from having
to use coal, oil, or natural gas to achieve similar results.       ~ JoeF

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Take-apart kite
by Pedro Maria Rodriguez
of New York, N.Y., USA

Patent number: 2822140
Filing date: Feb 28, 1955
Issue date: Feb 4, 1958

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Box kite
William A. Corbin
of Harmony, Rhode Island, USA

Patent number: 2873077
Filed: Apr 20, 1956
Issued: Feb 1959

Open for discussion. Click image for full instruction.

Flying saucer kite
William L. Wilson

from Los Angeles, California, USA

US Pat.: 2903207
Filed: Oct 2, 1957
Issued: Sep 1959

http://energykitesystems.net/KitePatents/WIPO/WorldApp2010039790.pdf

Open for discussion.
2009 Sep 30: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2010039790 
System and method for airborne cyclically controlled power generation using autorotation

One forum post:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirborneWindEnergy/message/3064

What is claimed as novel?
Examples crafted?

• Related matter, perhaps:
• Rotary kite systems
• Autogiros, autogyros
• Autorotation

See key discussion notes by Dave Santos at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirborneWindEnergy/message/3065

Rubim B. Riker

Acrobatic kite

Patent number: 2931600
Filed: Mar 19, 1958
Issued: Apr 1960

Discuss? Click image for full instruction.

The media may be water, air, soup, etc.

Power generating device

Gerald E. Steelman
of Iowa, USA

US Pat.  3887817
Filed: Dec 20, 1973
Issued: Jun 1975

Discuss. Click image for full instruction.

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Discussion started.

Perhaps hang the drag-kite-chute worker from a kite-lifted line.
See Arnold Loeb in US Pat. Wind driven energy system in US Pat. 4124182 filed Nov 14, 1977, and issued Issue date: Nov 7, 1978.

~ JoeF

 

William Frank Browne
of New York, N.Y., USA

US Pat.: 144436
Filed: Oct 3, 1873
Issued: Nov 1873

He admits that the "advertiser" may be supported by "aerial vehicle of sufficient capacity to meet the requirements for which it is emploed.  Hence, a HTA kite could supply the lift of the surface that he describes.

The "capture rope" is a tether to the lifter. He seems to have missed the opportunity to allow for a capture rope that would double as the feed-gas element that would replenish the deficiency of lifting gas lost by exosmosis.

The instruciton for handling  wind "flaws"  affects the future of line laundry, lifted flags, hazard flags, etc.  

Discuss.   Click image for full instruction.

 

Apparatus for extracting energy from winds
at significant height above the surface

Lambros Lois

US Pat. 3924827
Filed: Apr 25, 1975
Issued: Dec 1975

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See further kite energy patent by Lambros Lois:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=S6Q0AAAAEBAJ&dq=3924827
 US Pat. 4076190

 

Jean F. Charpentier
Robert S. Ross

Autostable circular tethered wing balloon

US Pat.: 3620486
Filed: Jul 9, 1969
Issued: Nov 1971

Discuss. Click image for full instruction:

Wind driven energy system

 Arnold Loeb

US Pat.

4124182
Filed: Nov 14, 1977
Issued: Nov 7, 1978

Click image for full instruction. Discuss is welcome.

In Popular Science, December 1976, Lambros Lois idea was illustrated
by Ray Pioch for a paragraph
"Buoyant wings turn wind enrgy into electricity "

At the bottom of the magazine's page is the notation toward Lambros Lois.

US Pat. 1816814 
Kite Parachute
 by Milford Ater
 of Chillicothe, Ohio, USA
 Filed April 10, 1930
 Issued Aug. 4, 1931

Click image for full instruction.  

================================Discussion is open.

Gravity ring. Friction hold for temporary keep.  Double-purpose of chute as tail.

WO/2009/066334) POWER TRANSMITTING SYSTEM THROUGH CABLES
FOR AIRBORNE WIND-TYPE POWER GENERATION
AND SAIL WINCH-DRIVING APPLICATIONS

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2009066334 

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/images1/PCT-PAGES/2009/222009/09066334/09066334.pdf

VERGNANO, Giovanni

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Discussion is open.

The applicant aims to have AWECS with generator on ground and provides a means to bring upper windpower to the ground for conversion to electricity.  He mentions that the Sky WindPower exploration with flygen has the challenge of ever lifting the weight of the generator to the sky and ever having to have an electrically conductive cable.      Vergnano instructs somewhat like those instructors of earlier AWECS patented functions where mechanical energy is carried by the kite tether to the ground for driving the rotation of a rotary current generator or the oscillation of a linear current generator.

JoeF

This system could be kite lifted.

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2011005007

Kite control assembly

Ernest V. Kinsey

Patent number: 3355129
Filing date: Jul 13, 1966
Issue date: Nov 1967

Click for full instructon:

Note: This is not a kite patent. However, this is included to demonstrate the free-flight gliding aspects of the form that has been the subject of very many rotary-kite patents of the Savonius or Magnus-effect VAWT type kite with the axis of rotation traverse to the stream flow.

Free flying aerodynamic toy with high stability

 Peter A. Sharp

Patent number: 4051622
Filing date: Apr 12, 1976
Issue date: Oct 4, 1977

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Rotatable airfoil kite

Jesse C.  Donaldson

Patent number: 2501442
Filing date: Apr 6, 1948
Issue date: Mar 1950

 

Mastless sail

Sidney E. Veazey

Patent number: 4497272
Filing date: Jun 1, 1982
Issue date: Feb 5, 1985

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