Patent US-1880-234947

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Patent describes stingray-like glider propelled by wave motion of its fabric

Brearey was an early aerial dreamer - source

Inventor location: Maidenstone Hill, Blackheath, Kent, England

John F. Mackenzie of Edinburgh, Scotland was assigned 1/3 of the ownership afterward. This is probably John Finlayson Mackenzie who filed another patent in the same year.

The witnesses to this patent are of interest. They give their addresses:

  • Thomas Moy, 37 Farringdon Street, London, E. C. -- a widely-cited aero inventor
  • Lily Lascelles Brearey, Blackheath, S. E. -- a female relative -- wife?

Patent family descending from Patent GB-1879-2376

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Year filed 1880
Year granted 1880
Office US
Patent number 234947
Inventors Frederick William Brearey
Inventor country GB
Inventor location
Applicant person Frederick William Brearey, John Finlayson Mackenzie
Applicant firm
Applicant type INDIV
Applicant is inventor? 1
Original title Aerial Apparatus
English title Aerial apparatus
Tech fields glider, propulsion, marine, ornithopter, flapping
Filing date 1880/01/23
Full specification filed date
Application number
Grant date 1880/11/30
Granted? 1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent Patent GB-1879-2376
Related to aircraft? 1
Serial number
Patent agent Munn & Co.
Assigned to John Finlayson Mackenzie
National tech categories USPC 244/22
IPCs IPC B64C33/02
CPCs CPC B64C33/02
Family year 1879
First filing? 0
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930 1
Application ID 45959154
INPADOC family ID
Number of text pages 1
Number of diagram pages 1
Number of figures 3
Number of claims 1