Aerial-drop device

• US 3,168,267 A
• Filed: 05/14/1963
• Issued: 02/02/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward G. Ferris
• Original Assignee: Edward G. Ferris
• Inventors: Ferris, Edward G.
• Application Number:
  US04/280,328
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• US Class Current: 244/138.00A
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 1/02 Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles jettisonable fuel reservoirs B64D37/12
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 10/58 of rotochute type

Claims

2. A AERIAL-DROP DEVICE COMPRISING:

A CONTAINER HAVING A BOTTOM, SIDE WALLS AND A TOP;

A PLURALITY OF WINGS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID SIDE WALLS;

HINGE MEANS CONNECTING SAID WINGS TO SAID SIDE WALLS FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT BETWEEN OUTSTANDING RADIAL POSITIONS AND UPSTANDING LONGITUDINALLY POSITIONS;

SAID WINGS EACH BEING ARRANGED OBLIQUELY IN ITS OUTSTANDING RADIAL POSITION TO SPIRAL SAID CONTAINER UPON BEING DROPPED;

CENTRIGUGAL WEIGHTS ON SAID WINGS TO MAINTAIN THE LATER RADIALLY OUTSTANDING DURING SPIRAL DROPPING MOVEMENT;

AND A PLURALITY OF VANES PROJECTING FROM SAID SIDE WALLS BELOW SAID WINGS AND EACH ARRANGED OBLIQUELY TO INITIATE SPIRAL CONTAINER MOVEMENT UPON BEING DROPPED.