Patent US-1914-1150903

• Objectives: "to provide means by which the movement of flying machines may be so controlled as to render them stable and less liable to overbalance" using "a novel stabilizing means" -- "wing warping, and the movements of steering and balancing planes are accomplished by power transmitted by drums actuated by frictional controlling means." And a mechanism to "set to cause the machine to rise to a predetermined height" And a mechanism to maintain a course to in a given direction.
• Tech class: CPC B64C17/00: Aircraft stabilisation not otherwise provided for
• Inventor location: Frankfort, Spink county, SD
• Witnesses as shown on diagram pages: ... and C. A. Meyer
• Witnesses as shown on the final text page: C. D. Sterling and M. C. H. Sterling

Sources

• Patent 1150903 document and bibliographic info on espacenet
• Patent 1150903 at google patents

Year filed	1914
Year granted	1915
Office	US
Patent number	1150903
Inventors	William Wallace Swan
Inventor country	US
Inventor location
Applicant person	William Wallace Swan
Applicant firm
Applicant type	INDIV
Applicant is inventor?	Yes
Original title	Automatic controller for flying-machines
English title	Automatic controller for flying-machines
Tech fields	control, airplane, automatic stability
Filing date	1914/05/11
Full specification filed date
Application number	1914837909
Grant date	1915/08/24
Granted?	1
Publication date
Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft?	1
Serial number	837909
Patent agent	None
Assigned to
National tech categories	USPC 244/177
IPCs
CPCs	CPC B64C17/00
Family year	1914
First filing?	Yes
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930	1
Application ID	47730448
INPADOC family ID	44076859
Number of text pages	5
Number of diagram pages	2
Number of figures	4
Number of claims	14